I have a large local music library. Folders organized the way I want them, cover art in the right places, everything on local storage. The problem is music players. I only searched for about 10 minutes, but nothing fit... The app I wanted didn't exist: native, fast, no
At The Wisdom Seat, where I'm board president, we run events on Zoom most days. For a long time, each one had its own Zoom meeting. A volunteer would log into the shared Zoom account, create a new meeting, copy the link, paste it into Wix, paste it
I have a folder named to_digikam on my Fedora computer where photos and videos land. They come from many places: Syncthing transfers from my Mac, camera offloads, or cloud exports. They arrive with generic names like IMG_0842.heicor PXL_20260421.jpg, sitting in one flat, chaotic pile until
Two people at The Wisdom Seat who do a lot of the quiet work are leaving around the same time. One is graduating in June 2026, and the other is starting a three-year retreat the last week of July 2026. Before then, a bunch of small things they do
I'm helping run a 16-month Buddhist cohort studying Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings. From the beginning we knew we'd have about 20 people joining from all over - different parts of the US, Hawaii, Japan. Some can attend in person at our shrine room, others
If you want to talk with some friendly people tonight - not about work - I'm hosting a discussion on chapter 5 from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's book Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Join us here
iPhones show you red numbers for all of the things you haven't dealt with that it thinks you should look at. In our culture red is often used to warn of danger, and whenever I see those red badge numbers I feel wary. Because of that, I turned
My latest attempt at storytelling - presenting Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's influence on American Buddhism using a top-down camera, printed photos, and accepting that anything I said would be inadequate.
In my current two phone experiment, my secondary phone number is attached to my flip phone and I have a smartphone with my main phone number for everything else: Spotify, Maps, Internet, banking, etc. I keep intending to leave the smartphone and AirPods in my car when I go into
I love Yasiin Bey's album The Ecstatic. I'm considering switching from Spotify to YouTube music, so I signed into YouTube music and looked around for some music I like. It looks like people take albums that don't exist on YouTube and post them there
author's note... I prefer the term I made up: "simple-phone" over the common: "dumb phone." So that's what I'll be using. I started wrestling my attention back from smartphones in 2022, and I'm tracking how that goes.
Open source photo management is better than Apple Photos