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Controlling Spotify in uLauncher
Raycast has this cool extension to control Spotify, so I searched for something similar for uLauncher. I ended up getting the Spotify player extension working, which lets you pause, play, and skip to the next or previous track. It’s not as advanced as the Raycast extension, but since it doesn’t use the Spotify WebAPI, the…
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Highlights from Des Traynor’s talk “Agentifying your product”
Here are some highlights from the slide content of Des Traynor’s talk “Agentifying your product” that I found particularly interesting. Launch is just the beginning [18:05] If you’re building an agent [21:05] When buying/evaluating agents… [21:47]
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Using AI as an Operating System
While I was watching Sam Altman’s conversation at AI Ascent, the part about using AI as an Operating System really stuck with me (starts at 14:56). Here’s the transcript with a few edits for better readability. [Young people] really do use it like an Operating System. They have complex ways to set it up to…
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Clipboard Manager in uLauncher (Ubuntu GNOME Wayland)
I was surprised by how useful it’s to have a Clipboard Manager support in Raycast in my MacOS setup, so this is my attempt to have the same behavior in Ubuntu Linux, using GNOME with Wayland. I was surprised by how useful Clipboard Manager support in Raycast is on MacOS, so now I’m trying to…
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Tools to Convert a Web Page into Markdown for AI (LLM)
Here is a list of tools that I tested to convert web pages to the Markdown format, mainly for using their content with AI (LLMs). To compare the results, I decided to convert a post I wrote that has subheadings, code, links, keyboard input, and an image. Proprietary pure.md How to use it: Add the…
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Post to test WordPress to Markdown conversion
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How to use ChatGPT Desktop with Visual Studio Code (VS Code) in MacOS
To get started, install ChatGPT Desktop and add the ChatGPT extension in Visual Studio Code. Next, open a file in VS Code—you’ll see a VS Code icon and the filename above the ChatGPT Desktop chat input. Clicking on the icon lets ChatGPT make changes to your code, offering a similar experience to GitHub Copilot, but…
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Using MacOS for the first time after 20+ years of Linux
I’ve used Linux as my main Operating System for over 20 years, and just started using macOS for work this year (2025). I’m treating it as a research experiment—to see how another OS works and look for ways to improve my Linux setup (which I already have—like using pbcopy/pbpaste, and recently, the trash command). I’ll…
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Installing Arize Phoenix with uv in Ubuntu (Linux) or macOS
Here’s how I installed Arize Phoenix, an open-source AI observability and evaluation tool, using the uv package manager: To open it in the future, just run the following commands:
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WP-CLI: force output to a specific language (locale)
WP-CLI uses the same locale as the WordPress installation, so if you deal with multiple locales, it might be tricky to follow the output. Luckily, the official documentation shows how to set a specific locale. Here’s a quick summary, plus an important caveat I found: 1. Create a file called force-locale.php and set your desired…
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Automatically log in to WordPress as an admin for local testing
I made a simple plugin with AI’s help that I use locally, so I don’t have to log in as administrator every time I reset a WordPress site to run tests. The initial plugin code had the credentials hard-coded, but before sharing it, I changed it to fetch the first admin user from the database.…
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How to quickly reset WordPress and still keep themes plus some plugins
I use LocalWP to run WordPress locally, and I made a command to reset a site while keeping the themes and some plugins so I can quickly run various tests. For the script above, I used the steps from my previous guides about removing files (except certain subfolders) and using the trash command. I’ve added…