McGarityDotMe
  • Home
  • Time Capsule
  • Video Projects
  • Media Diet
  • Tags
  • About
Screenshot of the "Edit" menu of the macOS system menu, printed in the 1984 Macintosh User Manual

Technology

The Inconsistency of Command-K

How my day job is made a PITA by having to remember what Command-K does in each different application I use.

Sep 23, 2024

Quotes

Progress

Words that resonated with me as I've been feeling stuck lately.

Sep 17, 2024

Health

Crossing the Brimley/Cocoon Line

How to look one's age in the modern age.

Aug 25, 2024
A wall or floor, with every possible space covered with printed notes & lists.

Things

Using Things 3 to Track Reading and Watch Lists

A walkthru of the Things 3 setup which helps me track which movies, shows, books, and more I want to knock out as part of my media diet!

May 15, 2024
Noyce "Nick" McGarity (1943-2023)

Dad

Noyce "Nick" McGarity (1943-2023)

The full obituary for my father Nick, who passed away last summer after a long, epic life!

Apr 7, 2024
A black-and-white photograph of the artist Richard Serra at the age of 66.

Art

Richard Serra (1938-2024)

My remembrance of the late artist Richard Serra, including some of my own photos of his work.

Mar 31, 2024
An open banking cash box, whose bottom surface is covered with oak strips, appearing like a hardwood floor

Time Capsule

Oak Hardwood Flooring from Bruce Hall's "Bowling Alley"

More about Bruce Hall's "Bowling Alley" and my own personal slice.

Mar 17, 2024
A small tin of Spam luncheon meat, which is at least 25 years old.

Tin of Spam

No good time capsule would be complete without a small portion of potted meat.

Mar 16, 2024
A glass jar with a dislodged cork lid, containing two graduation tassels from high school & college

Time Capsule

Graduation Tassels

Where we find out which lasts longer: synthetic fabric or my college education?

Mar 15, 2024
A courtyard with two walls, each completely-covered with graffiti tags.

Ghost

Displaying Secondary Tags in Ghost's Source Theme

Some quick changes to ensure you can see all tags for each of my posts.

Mar 7, 2024

Latest

DALL-E 3-generated image of an old man before a giant Mac desktop screen, using a pencil like a wand to select photos.

Exporting Photos for Select Day One Entries

The other day on the Day One sub-Reddit, someone asked how to bulk-export just photos from Day One: Download a bulk of photos from a journal to my phone by u/GlitteringFee1047 in dayoneapp Being the helpful kind of person I am, I jumped to find a solution — then promptly

Mar 7, 2024
Flyer from Corey Mickels' funeral, dated July 1, 1997. The paper is water-stained.

Flyer from Corey Mickels’ funeral (1978-1997)

A little about my former next-door neighbor and his tragic loss.

Mar 5, 2024
Screenshot from iOS Streaks app, showing 3652 days in a row with no soda or soft drinks.

A Decade of No Sodas

A quick check-in on my decade-long streak of avoiding soft drinks.

Mar 3, 2024

A Concise Goal-Setting Framework

Sahil Bloom's system for framing the right number of achievable goals.

Feb 29, 2024
Logo for the CMS platform Ghost

Fuck It, Let's Go With Ghost

Details on yet another change-up in my website, this time involving the CMS platform Ghost.

Feb 27, 2024
Things 3 Audit

Things 3 Audit

My use of various tools to work around UI and CLI limitations with Things 3.

Feb 24, 2024
Logo for Eleventy static website generator.

Adios, Jekyll...Howdy, Eleventy

Details on my switch from Jekyll to Eleventy for powering my static website.

Feb 18, 2024
My Useful Apple Shortcuts

My Useful Apple Shortcuts

My collection of free productivity-focused Apple shortcuts.

Feb 9, 2024
Configuring Jekyll Tags

Configuring Jekyll Tags

Details on how to overcome the lack of an obvious Jekyll feature.

Jan 27, 2024
Gmail Filters for Product Management

Gmail Filters for Product Management

How as a product manager I use Gmail filters to wrangle my inbound emails.

Jan 26, 2024
Sublime-Jekyll

Sublime-Jekyll

An update on my journey towards a sustainable Jekyll publishing setup.

Jan 17, 2024
Perfectly-spaced birds on a wire at a traffic intersection with an Independence Ave. street sign in the foreground

Independence

Jan 17, 2024
See all
McGarityDotMe
  • GitHub
  • LinkedIn
  • Mastodon
  • Bluesky
  • Instagram
  • WordPress
Powered by Ghost