Amit Jotwani

Streamlining Tax Season with a Simple Email Hack

Every year, as tax season rolls around, I find myself frantically looking through emails and apps to track down tax-deductible expenses. It’s always such a mess. It's like a scavenger hunt, except the prize is just getting my taxes done. So last night, inspired by the annual

Ghost

Integrating Prism.js for Code Highlighting and Copy-to-Clipboard Functionality in Ghost

I wanted to enhance my Ghost blog's code snippets with syntax highlighting and a convenient copy-to-clipboard feature. For this, I integrated Prism.js - a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter. Here's how I did it, broken down into the code for the site header and footer. Files

Hugo

Deploying a Hugo Website to GitHub Pages Using GitHub Actions

After setting up Ghost for my personal website, I was looking for something a bit simpler. While Ghost is an incredibly powerful platform, it felt like an overkill for my needs—especially for a personal website. I still have a soft spot for the straightforwardness of HTML and CSS, so

Dynamically Updating Your Tidbyt Display with REST API Data

I recently bought a Tidbyt, a fascinating retro pixelated display that can do everything from showing the weather to displaying memes (h/t to Greg Baugues for the recommendation). After setting it up and exploring some pre-built apps (mine currently cycles through a Nokia Snake game, a Tetris clock I&

How to Automatically Run Shell Scripts on a Mac Using Cron Jobs

I wanted to run a shell script at regular intervals to update a greeting image on my Tidbyt device. The script had to render the image and push it to Tidbyt so that the greeting would refresh every few minutes. While developing this, I realized I needed the script to

Building a Hello World App for Tidbyt Retro Style Display

I recently bought a Tidbyt, a fascinating retro pixelated display that can do everything from showing the weather to displaying memes (h/t to Greg Baugues for the recommendation). After setting it up and exploring some pre-built apps (mine currently cycles through a Nokia Snake game, a Tetris clock I&

AppleScript

Automating Weekly Review Date Headers with AppleScript and TextExpander

While reviewing my week in Day One, I like to kick things off with a heading that reads something like "Week of Date 1 to Date 2." Sounds simple, right? But almost always, there's a bit of friction to this. I have to pause my reflection,

Setting Up SQLite with Flask

I wanted to set up SQLite with Flask for a simple, lightweight database solution that doesn't need a separate server process. Perfect for prototyping or smaller-scale applications. Here's how I did it. 1. Installing SQLite SQLite usually comes pre-installed with Python, so you likely don'

Quickly Cycling Through and Fixing Spelling Errors in VS Code Markdown Files

I wanted to cycle through and fix all spelling errors in a VS Code markdown file. I already had the spell-checking extension installed but couldn't figure out how to see all the errors together and fix them quickly. Here's how - 1. Open the markdown file

Changing the Number of Posts Displayed Per Page in Ghost CMS

So, I wanted to customize the number of posts displayed per page on my Ghost CMS website using the Dawn theme. The default setting was showing only 5 posts, and I wanted to bump that up to 25. Here's how I did it, broken down into simple steps,

How to Globally Ignore files like .DS_Store in Git Repos

So, I got tired of adding .DS_Store to every git repo on my Mac. I was pretty sure there would be a better way to handle this on a global way on my Mac, so I don't have to do this for every repo. Here's

My first ChatGPT app - Google Drive + LangChain + Python

I recently built my very first app using ChatGPT's API. Just followed @greggyb's super helpful guide to write my first ChatGPT app that queries a PDF sitting in a Google Drive. 🤩 Here's me querying @culturedcode's AppleScript Guide (PDF) 📚 Very helpful in finding

API

AssemblyAI - Retool App

I had a great time exploring AssemblyAI and thought it would be cool to create a user interface for it using Retool that lets you easily transcribe audio files. Here's what I came up with in version 0.1. Just upload the file, or if you prefer, record

Automating Python Project Setup: A Shell Script to Create New Projects Quickly

As someone who loves experimenting with Python libraries and APIs, starting new projects quickly is important. Setting up these projects can sometimes be time-consuming, and a bit annoying to be honest. Wrote this shell script to automate the process and start coding quickly. Here's what it does -

Export todos from Things app using AppleScript

I had a bunch of todos in the Things app that I wanted to move to my notes. Manually copying them from the app didn't grab the notes in the todo, which was quite a hassle. So, I ended up writing this quick AppleScript to export all todos

ChatGPT

How do I get ChatGPT responses to highlight the code in the terminal?

In a previous post, I played around with ChatGPT to query PDFs stored in Google Drive. I use the Things app as my task manager, and sometimes play around with the AppleScript to move around things. No pun intended. The makers of the app provide this handly PDF manual for