Slinky: A self-hosted start page
Introducing Slinky, a self-hosted start page for organizing frequently used links and accessing them across devices.
Programming
Violentmonkey script to block politicalwire.com troll “Reasonable”
A Violentmonkey script for hiding comments from a recurring Disqus troll on Political Wire who repeatedly creates new accounts.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
This pertains to macOS. Other OS’s may differ.
To export a high resolution image of the entire PDF:
# Note: pdftoppm is provided by Poppler
# If Poppler is not installed then first:
# brew install poppler
pdftoppm -png -r 600 input.pdf outputTo export the images that are contained in the PDF:
pdfimages -all input.pdf outputKeyboard Maestro macro to toggle macOS calendar visibility
Using Keyboard Maestro and AppleScript UI scripting to show or hide a selected group of macOS calendars with one shortcut.
A script to generate KiCad board outlines
Generating reusable KiCad board-outline footprints from specified dimensions, with optional rounded corners and mounting holes.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
- Indigo macOS home automation software actions that are assigned to a
Trigger,Scheduledor web UI element are not executed sequentially. Design accordingly to avoid race conditions.
Indigo actions are not guaranteed to execute sequentially
Understanding Indigo’s parallel action execution and using scripts or state-based sequencing to avoid race conditions.
Holding back the ChatGPT emoji tsunami
A Violentmonkey workaround for filtering unwanted emoji from ChatGPT replies after preference settings failed to prevent them.
Removing inflammatory YouTube comments programmatically
A Violentmonkey userscript for hiding a specific user’s inflammatory comments on YouTube.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
When you run a script as a systemd service, you have to define its environment variables in the service file, e.g.
# Set your environment variables here
Environment="OJISAN_INCREMENTAL_UPLOAD_API_KEY=YOUR_ACTUAL_API_KEY_VALUE"
Environment="OJISAN_INCREMENTAL_UPLOAD_DB_USER=your_db_user"
Environment="OJISAN_INCREMENTAL_UPLOAD_DB_PW=your_db_password"
Environment="OJISAN_INCREMENTAL_UPLOAD_DB_NAME=your_db_name"
Environment="DB_HOST=your_db_host"