@sylumer.thoughtasylum.com
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Jack of all Trades, Master of Some
Jack of all Trades, Master of Some
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January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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No coffees required, but they are welcome.
No coffees required, but they are welcome.
We are a few days into 2026, so time for me to get my final 2025 monthly update out. This time there’s blogging, forum updates, #StreamDeck stuff, #3DPrinting a #HomeRacker setup, a MenuBox GitHub repo, #HamRadio bits, an #Obsidian vault update & some handy links.
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December 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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January 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
We are a few days into 2026, so time for me to get my final 2025 monthly update out. This time there’s blogging, forum updates, #StreamDeck stuff, #3DPrinting a #HomeRacker setup, a MenuBox GitHub repo, #HamRadio bits, an #Obsidian vault update & some handy links.
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I've been beyond busy for most of 2025, but a bit of down time over the last few days means I've been able to throw a few days of effort at the Automators Podcast #Obsidian vault and put out the first update in over 6 months! At least it is one more before the year's out.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I've been beyond busy for most of 2025, but a bit of down time over the last few days means I've been able to throw a few days of effort at the Automators Podcast #Obsidian vault and put out the first update in over 6 months! At least it is one more before the year's out.
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My November round up post is now live. This month there's a bit on Alfred fort Mac, some interesting Drafts stuff, a little on 3D printing, some newbie ham radio stuff, and some tech links I've found useful this past month.
#alfredapp #draftsapp #hamradio #tech
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#alfredapp #draftsapp #hamradio #tech
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November 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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December 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My November round up post is now live. This month there's a bit on Alfred fort Mac, some interesting Drafts stuff, a little on 3D printing, some newbie ham radio stuff, and some tech links I've found useful this past month.
#alfredapp #draftsapp #hamradio #tech
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#alfredapp #draftsapp #hamradio #tech
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My October summary is now out. A much shorter read than usual I think (read for why), but with tips using a particular Windows file manager, some links to SVG, EMF, and LLM related resources I’ve been using this month, and some notes about some events I’ve attended.
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October 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My October summary is now out. A much shorter read than usual I think (read for why), but with tips using a particular Windows file manager, some links to SVG, EMF, and LLM related resources I’ve been using this month, and some notes about some events I’ve attended.
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Time once more for a monthly round up. More on text to speech on the Mac this month along with some radio stuff as well as the usual automation bits and pieces.
#TTS #macOS #radio
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#TTS #macOS #radio
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September 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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October 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Time once more for a monthly round up. More on text to speech on the Mac this month along with some radio stuff as well as the usual automation bits and pieces.
#TTS #macOS #radio
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#TTS #macOS #radio
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A little behind schedule, but my August update is live. There’s a bit about text to speech on the Mac, and a new section sharing some interesting links: a learning app, an app for travellers, and a documentation tool for devs.
#TTS #macOS #learning #travel #devdocs
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#TTS #macOS #learning #travel #devdocs
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August 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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September 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’ve been exploring text-to-speech on macOS over the recent months to address a requirement on my to do list. If you are interested in setting up local conversion of text to pretty decent speech, on #macOS, check out my latest blog post for a walk through.
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Text to Speech on macOS with Piper
With large language models (LLM) dominating the technology space in recent years, multi-modal input, and speech to text transformations have come on leaps and bounds to the point where large swathes o...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’ve been exploring text-to-speech on macOS over the recent months to address a requirement on my to do list. If you are interested in setting up local conversion of text to pretty decent speech, on #macOS, check out my latest blog post for a walk through.
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My free monthly update for July is live. This month I've got a new #StreamDeck plugin for #Mac automation, an update to my #Alfred workflow for #KeyboardMaestro, something geeky on #SuccessFactors #Learning, and a new #3DPrint for #Underware2.0 (for #Multiboard).
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July 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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August 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My free monthly update for July is live. This month I've got a new #StreamDeck plugin for #Mac automation, an update to my #Alfred workflow for #KeyboardMaestro, something geeky on #SuccessFactors #Learning, and a new #3DPrint for #Underware2.0 (for #Multiboard).
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v1.7.0 of Conductor, my #Alfred workflow for #KeyboardMaestro is now available with some great new features.
In fact, there are quite a lot of new features (list attached), with code and logic behind the scenes, so if you spot anything buggy, let me know.
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In fact, there are quite a lot of new features (list attached), with code and logic behind the scenes, so if you spot anything buggy, let me know.
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July 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
v1.7.0 of Conductor, my #Alfred workflow for #KeyboardMaestro is now available with some great new features.
In fact, there are quite a lot of new features (list attached), with code and logic behind the scenes, so if you spot anything buggy, let me know.
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In fact, there are quite a lot of new features (list attached), with code and logic behind the scenes, so if you spot anything buggy, let me know.
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I have a new #StreamDeck plugin for #Mac automation - the st public release is now out, and free on the #Elgato Marketplace. You can read about the functionality and get all the links to the (download, documentation, etc.) in the accompanying blog post.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I have a new #StreamDeck plugin for #Mac automation - the st public release is now out, and free on the #Elgato Marketplace. You can read about the functionality and get all the links to the (download, documentation, etc.) in the accompanying blog post.
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1.7 of Bypass, my #Alfred app workflow for working with Apple #Shortcuts is out now. Full details in change log, but notably can now directly copy the ID of a shortcut. Making it easy to use an ID with my upcoming #StreamDeck plugin which got a new ꞵ today.
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June 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
1.7 of Bypass, my #Alfred app workflow for working with Apple #Shortcuts is out now. Full details in change log, but notably can now directly copy the ID of a shortcut. Making it easy to use an ID with my upcoming #StreamDeck plugin which got a new ꞵ today.
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Another monthly round up is out now. Find out what I got up to in May, including pieces on #KeyboardMaestro, #SuccessFactors Learning, #3DPrinted RC car ramps, and many other geeky things that crossed my path and my mind.
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#FreeToFollow
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May 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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June 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Another monthly round up is out now. Find out what I got up to in May, including pieces on #KeyboardMaestro, #SuccessFactors Learning, #3DPrinted RC car ramps, and many other geeky things that crossed my path and my mind.
#FreeToFollow
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#FreeToFollow
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New post up using #KeyboardMaestro to build a piece of functionality I missed from the NoteTab text editor - something that while running appends any clipboard updates to a special clipboard. A bit like a printing calculator roll.
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Keyboard Maestro Clipbook
Back when I was at university reading for my MSc. I was working with some data files on Windows and I reached the point where Windows’ notepad application simply reached the point where it couldn’t co...
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May 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
New post up using #KeyboardMaestro to build a piece of functionality I missed from the NoteTab text editor - something that while running appends any clipboard updates to a special clipboard. A bit like a printing calculator roll.
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The #LovecraftInvestigations Kickstarter for #Crowley is less than £4K from its 1st stretch goal, and 19 days left. Is it a good omen? Will we get that new Mythos episode in which Lairre & Parker check out the goings on in Midwich? I hope so!
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#podcast #Lovecraft
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#podcast #Lovecraft
Lovecraft Investigations: Crowley
A new season of the award-winning Lovecraft Investigations, delving into the (true) life and works of Aleister Crowley
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May 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The #LovecraftInvestigations Kickstarter for #Crowley is less than £4K from its 1st stretch goal, and 19 days left. Is it a good omen? Will we get that new Mythos episode in which Lairre & Parker check out the goings on in Midwich? I hope so!
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#podcast #Lovecraft
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#podcast #Lovecraft
Time for my monthly round up of what I've been up to. A long and busy post this one with writing posts and changing processes, attending events, adding hardware, software, AI, 3D printing and probably lots of other stuff I just forgot 😆
#Alfred #Mac #AI #Obsidian
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#Alfred #Mac #AI #Obsidian
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April 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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Time for my monthly round up of what I've been up to. A long and busy post this one with writing posts and changing processes, attending events, adding hardware, software, AI, 3D printing and probably lots of other stuff I just forgot 😆
#Alfred #Mac #AI #Obsidian
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#Alfred #Mac #AI #Obsidian
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Fourth day of #Alfred workflow-related updates today, with updates for 'Slink' (a workflow for Brett Terpstra's SearchLink) and 'Noise Player'(I never remember what each system sound is like).
Find them and more at www.thoughtasylum.com/alfred/
Find them and more at www.thoughtasylum.com/alfred/
April 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Fourth day of #Alfred workflow-related updates today, with updates for 'Slink' (a workflow for Brett Terpstra's SearchLink) and 'Noise Player'(I never remember what each system sound is like).
Find them and more at www.thoughtasylum.com/alfred/
Find them and more at www.thoughtasylum.com/alfred/
An extra long weekend and the #Alfred workflow updates keep coming. This time an update to "Read the 🤐 Manual", a workflow for looking up 'man' pages to remove an outdated view option and add in new keyword options.
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Alfred - Read the 🤐 Manual
A web site about using technology efficiently, and other things
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April 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
An extra long weekend and the #Alfred workflow updates keep coming. This time an update to "Read the 🤐 Manual", a workflow for looking up 'man' pages to remove an outdated view option and add in new keyword options.
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I recently posted about how I am using #Alfred to run commands in the warp.dev terminal app. If you want the custom terminal script and or workflow support, none of which use GUI scripting, you can find them in the post:
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Alfred - Using Warp for Your Terminal
I have been a long time user of iTerm, but when the AI powered Warp terminal app came onto the scene I tried it out and ended up mostly switching over to it. My terminal skills are okay, but I don’t s...
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April 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I recently posted about how I am using #Alfred to run commands in the warp.dev terminal app. If you want the custom terminal script and or workflow support, none of which use GUI scripting, you can find them in the post:
www.thoughtasylum.com/2025/04/19/a...
www.thoughtasylum.com/2025/04/19/a...
v1.6.0 of Bypass, my #Alfred workflow for Apple #Shortcuts is out today. You can now choose a shortcut to run from a set of shortcuts you associate with the current app or current focus mode, and also it's easier to specify your own trigger keywords.
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April 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
v1.6.0 of Bypass, my #Alfred workflow for Apple #Shortcuts is out today. You can now choose a shortcut to run from a set of shortcuts you associate with the current app or current focus mode, and also it's easier to specify your own trigger keywords.
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It's time for my monthly update again. My March post is up and it is jam packed with hardware, software, trials, tribulations, 3D prints, and projects. I have had a very busy month.
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#Mac #3dprinting #geek
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#Mac #3dprinting #geek
March 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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April 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It's time for my monthly update again. My March post is up and it is jam packed with hardware, software, trials, tribulations, 3D prints, and projects. I have had a very busy month.
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#Mac #3dprinting #geek
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#Mac #3dprinting #geek
Do you use #Obsidian on your Mac? Do you want to set notes as read only? Yes, well check out my most recent post on locking notes in Obsidian.
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Locking Notes in Obsidian
Over the course of last year I saw several mentions on social media and other online posts about Obsidian, the personal knowledge management application, not being able to lock posts. I had an idea ab...
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March 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Do you use #Obsidian on your Mac? Do you want to set notes as read only? Yes, well check out my most recent post on locking notes in Obsidian.
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March is here, so it's time for my February round up. For this past month it is mostly new bits of hardware and some 3D printing of storage/organisation-related solutions.
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February 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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March is here, so it's time for my February round up. For this past month it is mostly new bits of hardware and some 3D printing of storage/organisation-related solutions.
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I've a new blog post out about using my new Logitech Litra Glow light. Being me though, somehow I got an old Raspberry Pi (with some very particular pieces of software), Apple #Shortcuts, #HomeAssistant, and #AutoHotkey involved in remote controlling it.
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Remote Control Logitech Litra Glow Light
Last year we finished the conversion of our garage into a small office, and I guess it must be the time of year, but recently there were a number of occasions I was being washed out in video calls. I ...
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February 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I've a new blog post out about using my new Logitech Litra Glow light. Being me though, somehow I got an old Raspberry Pi (with some very particular pieces of software), Apple #Shortcuts, #HomeAssistant, and #AutoHotkey involved in remote controlling it.
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www.thoughtasylum.com/2025/02/22/r...
My monthly summary for January is out with the usual blog and Drafts and Automators forums stuff, plus this month some bits on 3D printing, a dabbling in the world of browser extensions, and a Drafts action group update.
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January 2025 — Stephen Millard (ThoughtAsylum/@sylumer)
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February 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My monthly summary for January is out with the usual blog and Drafts and Automators forums stuff, plus this month some bits on 3D printing, a dabbling in the world of browser extensions, and a Drafts action group update.
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