Automatically Create a task using Shortcuts

Problem I want to use the ios reminders app more extensively but creating reminders is annoying. Especially when you have to type out everything and manually select the date even when the text is provided via mail. Solution Created a shortcut that recieves text, parses the selected text into three parts: title, description, and date(+time) and takes the parsed result to create a reminder. Most of the logic can be reused for creating calendar events as well....

January 22, 2025 · 2 min · Jun

Make Logitech Great Again

logitech mice and keyboards are great. The build quality, the design, the feel, the (insane) battery life are hard not to love. You can even reprogram the buttons found on top of the mouse to do ‘basically’ whatever you want. The fact that you can switch between devices with a click of a button is an added bonus. The problem is that the button for switching between devices is located on the bottom of the mouse....

February 20, 2024 · 2 min · Jun

Git Commit Rule

This post will be an ever-evolving list of guidelines for personal projects to make my life easier. This rule will not be necessary for everyone. Initialization What we want is a parent folder, eg. ~/dev, and all subdirectories to share git user information. Use git’s includeIf 1 2 3 4 5 6 # in the parent directory eg: ~/dev # create a gitconfig file eg: ~/dev/.gitconfig_include [user] email = youremail@domain.com name = Your Name # and other configs Reference:...

February 16, 2024 · 2 min · Jun

Karabiner Switch Input With Right Command Button

Switch input sources with the right_command key The problem As someone who often switches back and forth between a windows pc and a macbook, one thing that irritates me is the different way of switching languages between the two operating systems. In fact, for Korean keyboards in windows, changing the input source is a simple press of the button to the right of the spacebar. Once this becomes muscle memory, the standard mac way of cmd+space/ctrl+space/(long press)caps-lock(for korean keyboards) becomes way too cumbersome....

September 18, 2023 · 2 min · Jun