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I’ve been sleeping anywhere between 4 and 6 hours a night, which isn’t great because through trial and (mostly) error, I’ve determined that at this point in my life, 8.5 hours of sleep is what I do best on. But naps help quite a bit.
By the way, if you want to follow my sleep journey as well as a couple of other neurodivergent people, along with fun pop culture and knowledge tech tidbits, you should listen to Overtired....

I’ve been hard at work on a bunch of projects at once, so this is partly just a personal check-in on how things are going. Thanks for being my therapist of sorts. So here’s what’s up with current projects, including Marked 3, Howzit, Apex, and more.
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Here’s a new Karabiner-Elements trick that I’ve been using to add home row app switching to my workflow. Tools like LeaderKey are great, but sometimes you just want the App Switcher, and sometimes you just want to be lazy with your fingers.
My goal was a home-row app switcher that triggered without leaving the home row, and didn’t steal keys for normal typing. The solution is a Karabiner-Elements complex modification that uses simultaneous key detection: the layer only activates when A...

Just for fun, I’ve been porting some of my Jekyll plugins toWordPress, and two of them have turned into what I think arereally useful plugins.
I’m not switching from Jekyll to WordPress, I’ve just beenenjoying the challenge of recreating these tools asWordPress extensions. It’s somewhat funny because the Jekyllplugins were originally created from WordPress plugins I’dbuilt, and they developed...