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Bill Moriarty

Pennsylvania

One page, one login, everything else refers to it

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

24 Apr 2026
A Python script that sorts my photos while I'm doing something else

A Python script that sorts my photos while I'm doing something else

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

21 Apr 2026
Automating the routines so I am available to help

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Automating the routines so I am available to help

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 every

20 Apr 2026
Design Hybrid Learning for Your Least Tech-Savvy Participant

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Design Hybrid Learning for Your Least Tech-Savvy Participant

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

07 Feb 2026
Discussion tonight: Trungpa on synchronizing mind and body

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Discussion tonight: Trungpa on synchronizing mind and body

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

27 Jan 2026
iOS Notifications Trained Me to Ignore Them

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iOS Notifications Trained Me to Ignore Them

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

16 Jan 2026
Learning to tell stories by telling one

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Learning to tell stories by telling one

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.

29 Oct 2025

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Discipline is walking back to lock your phone in the car

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

28 Oct 2025
YouTube Music Seems Shady

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YouTube Music Seems Shady

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

16 Sep 2025
digiKam for the win!

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digiKam for the win!

Open source photo management is better than Apple Photos

12 Aug 2025

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Unscrolled: Crafting a sane life in an accelerating world.

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Unscrolled: Crafting a sane life in an accelerating world.