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Security ProTip: Fake Security Question Responses
There are a lot of web sites (banks come to mind) that force you to add a series of security questions to your account, and you often don’t get to pick the security questions. This is a terrible security practice. Security questions are as good as a password usually, and they’re usually asking you things…
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Building Custom Jigs With Alfred
note: I’m giving away some Alfred licenses! Because I love Alfred so darn much, I’m giving away Alfred Powerpack licenses to some lucky readers. If you want to enter, you should own a Mac, since you’ll need one to actually use Alfred! To enter, do one of the following: follow me at @harpaa01 Subscribe to…
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Alpha Lima Foxtrot Romeo Echo Delta
Ever been on the phone with customer service and you need to spell something out, and you think “man, I wish I actually knew that NATO alphabet so I could spell out letters using words and sound like a military badass†Alfred lets you be that badass. You’ll need a third party workflow for this.…
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Searching the Web Far and Wide with Alfred
This is a use case that got me addicted to application launcher style apps before Alfred even existed (back then Quicksilver was all the rage). It doesn’t take that long to Google something; you just go to an open browser window and type something in the address bar and hit Enter. If you’re savvy with…
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Instant Bookmark Access with Alfred
I use a lot of different web apps throughout my work day, and I can’t be bothered to navigate to them all the time. Using Alfred to launch apps on my Mac is great but it’s too obvious a use case to be worth a blog post. However, Alfred does integrate with major web browsers…
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Your Mac is incomplete without Alfred
Alfred is easily one of my most essential and most-used pieces of software. It’s usually the second app I install on a new Mac when setting it up (right after Dropbox, which I only set up first because Alfred’s settings are synced via Dropbox). And yet if you hear my excitement about it and ask…
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OMG, DIY FMD
I’ve been getting into the habit of regularly doing 5 day fasting mimicking diets. I’ve decided to settle on doing one every few weeks, doing the diet for 5 days, followed by 16 days of my normal diet. At $250 a pop, that started to sound pretty expensive (especially when you factor in how little…
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The Moonlander Keyboard – First Impressions
When ZSA announced a new keyboard a couple of weeks ago and said it was in stock and ready to ship immediately, I managed to last about five minutes before clicking the Order button. ZSA, makers of the Ergodox EZ and more recently the Planck EZ, have stepped things up with a new keyboard that…
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Fasting Without Fasting
Fasting is a fantastic way to treat type 2 diabetes. With no food to digest, your insulin levels will drop, and you’ll burn through fat in your liver and the rest of your body. And if you fast for multiple days your body will see additional benefits, such as autophagy kicking in and recycling old…
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The Dunning-Krueger Years
I’ll periodically get these flashbacks to moments in my career where I can now realize that I was way out of my element and didn’t know what the fuck I was doing. Having worked at an early stage startup I ended up in a role where I was managing other engineers and I was not…