I've been working on something new that I'm calling Simple Butler Service. It's a backend service designed to help streamline some of my everyday tasks. The goal is to continuously expand SBS by adding more services and supporting various input and output methods, like
I often find myself wanting to switch between grouping and not grouping the to-dos in the Today view in the Things app. I wish there was a quicker way to switch this, but the way to do this is by opening the settings screen each time and toggling the checkbox.
I was tinkering with LangChain and OpenAI to create a new guide for a "Hello World" app. This one’s going into the collection at https://guides.curiousmints.com Being a Seinfeld nerd, I figured it’d be fun to have it generate a fictitious episode of Seinfeld.
I wanted to make sure I could use my API keys across multiple Python projects without having to specify them every time. Here’s how I set it up. Step 1: Store API Keys in Environment Variables 1.1 Create a .env File First, I created a .env file in
In an earlier post, I shared a shell script to quickly set up new Python projects. Now, I’ve taken it a step further by creating a Raycast extension, making it even easier to start a new Python project with just a few keystrokes (I wrote about another Raycast extension
I've been using the Things app for over a decade. I love its aesthetics, simplicity, and minimalism. It's the app I keep coming back to, my long-standing pal. Recently, after hearing good things, I decided to take Microsoft’s To-Do for a spin, and found one
Spotify
I recently switched to Raycast after hearing good things from friends. It's a tool that lets you control almost everything from one place. I wanted to use it to see what's playing on Spotify without shifting focus from my work. Many apps and plugins pop up
Flask
I had several small Flask apps costing me each month, so I consolidated them into one monolithic app using Flask Blueprints. This post walks you through how I did it, making the setup modular and easy to maintain.
css
I was working on my Ghost blog and realized that the featured images for each post were just too large. After a bit of tinkering, I found a simple solution using CSS. h/t: Nick Turner's post on how to reduce feature image size within posts Here'
Every year, as tax season rolls around, I find myself frantically looking through emails and apps to track down tax-deductible expenses. It’s always such a mess. It's like a scavenger hunt, except the prize is just getting my taxes done. So last night, inspired by the annual
Ghost
I wanted to enhance my Ghost blog's code snippets with syntax highlighting and a convenient copy-to-clipboard feature. For this, I integrated Prism.js - a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter. Here's how I did it, broken down into the code for the site header and footer. Files
Hugo
After setting up Ghost for my personal website, I was looking for something a bit simpler. While Ghost is an incredibly powerful platform, it felt like an overkill for my needs—especially for a personal website. I still have a soft spot for the straightforwardness of HTML and CSS, so