Posts

Preserving macOS file creation dates when sed rewrites Obsidian notes, using GetFileInfo and SetFile around the edit.

Flattening troublesome airport terrain in X-Plane’s apt.dat file and reapplying the change programmatically after updates.

Preventing Hazel from deleting custom Finder icons by recognizing their metadata in a shell-script condition.

Modifying AwesomeTTS to call Amazon Polly through the AWS CLI using an existing AWS account.

A proof-of-concept filesystem watcher that updates modification-date metadata in Obsidian notes outside the application.

Using Dataview’s start-of-week and end-of-week date functions to link to weekly notes in Obsidian.

A Python scraper for downloading Forvo pronunciations when the API is unreliable, with ranking based on preferred speakers and votes.

Regular expressions for stripping standard Anki cloze markup and Cloze Anything markup while retaining the underlying text.

A Keyboard Maestro and AnkiConnect workflow for inserting the most recently prepared image into an Anki note.

Editing timestamps in Anki’s review log to move a review to another day and repair a broken review streak.