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  • Mar 8, 2025

    Nix as a Homebrew Replacement (A Failed Attempt)

  • Apr 14, 2024

    Fixing the "Sleep Wake Failure" Issue with OCLP Sonoma on 2017 MacBook Pro

    “Night brings at last never-ending sleep” – Insomnium

  • Feb 11, 2024

    Copy-as-Markdown and Paste-as-Markdown for macOS with Hammerspoon and Pandoc

    TLDR:

    hs -c "hs.pasteboard.readStyledText():convert('html')" | pandoc -f html -t gfm-raw_html+hard_line_breaks
    

    Or bind it to a keyboard shortcut like ⌘-⌥-C to achieve “copy-as-Markdown” like the following:

  • Feb 2, 2024

    我们做了一集动画片!

    鼻孔和六角 01《福建,土楼》建筑科普 x 两只外星恐龙探索地球的故事,求三连求关注!

  • Nov 2, 2021

    Moving All Google Photos to Another Account in 2021

    Party's over, unlimited Google Drive storage for Education is ending.
  • Apr 12, 2021

    Friendship ended with BETTERTOUCHTOOL, now HAMMERSPOON is my best friend

    or, Defining Global and Application-Specific Shortcuts with Hammerspoon

  • Aug 2, 2020

    Zen and the Art of Keyboard Ergonomics

    Keyboard ergonomics is more than just about keyboards, it’s about everything between your muscle movements and application behaviors. Optimizing how I interact with computer has been an entertaining and rewarding experience, and with the marginal utility of doing further tweaks getting close to zero, I decided to write this post as a summary of my thoughts and experiences along this journey down the rabbit hole of keyboard ergonomics.

  • Apr 25, 2020

    Desire, Death, and Deprivation

    “In the end, those who were carried off early no longer need us: they are weaned from earth’s sorrows and joys, as gently as children outgrow the soft breasts of their mothers.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, The First Elegy

  • Apr 19, 2020

    Why Sticky Modifier Keys are Awesome

    I would expect most people’s impression of sticky keys is “that annoying feature which activates when you accidentally press Shift for a few times”. I had that moment about 15 years ago on a Windows XP, but recently discovered that it is truly a gem hidden in plain sight that’s not only an ergonomic paradise, but also has the power to fundamentally change the way I interact with my computer.

  • Mar 15, 2019

    听HKUer说 | 米饭、豆子和国王

    应香港大学的邀请写了这篇推送,发布于香港大学微信公众号。

  • Feb 24, 2019

    System-wide Readline Shortcuts for macOS with BetterTouchTool

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The Infinite Blissful Space Between World and Keyboard