Posts

An AppleScript workflow for simplifying WikiLinks between timestamped Zettelkasten notes in DEVONthink.

A regular expression and Python example for removing Anki cloze markup while preserving the enclosed text.

Using regular expressions to remove syllabic stress marks from Russian text.

Reflections on treating a smartphone as a tool and removing apps whose business depends on capturing attention.

Encoding Cyrillic URLs in AppleScript so Safari can open Russian dictionary pages without rejecting the address.

Questioning advice to read across political divides when doing so treats unreliable reporting as equivalent to factual journalism.

Exploring when the Russian noun свидетельство takes a genitive or dative complement, with examples and guidance from Rozental.

An explanation of Anki’s ease-hell problem and a direct SQLite approach to resetting low card ease factors.

Installing a custom Russian phonetic keyboard layout on macOS to make syllabic stress marks easier to type.

A proof-of-concept script for removing tracking parameters from Google and Facebook links, integrated into Keyboard Maestro.