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I switched to Alfred from the once great Quicksilver not too long ago and instantly bought the Alfred Power Pack solely to have access to the system-wide hotkeys it provides.

One trick I found helpful was to hotkey a folder for quick access to my most used directories on my computer. If you have the power pack, it’s quite simple. Open up your Alfred preferences and go to the Global Hotkeys panel. Add a new hotkey and instead of selecting an app or a file, just select a folder for the “action” and set your hotkey.

Now, using that hotkey will open a finder window for that directory; it’s that simple. I currently use CMD + ` to open my Dropbox folder and CMD + ALT + ` to open my mounted file server.

We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage - we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have gone deep into stalker territory with their attempts to track our every action.

Last night I discovered that my RSS feed was down for the count. After a ton of debugging, some gnashing of teeth, and googling how to properly write a 301 redirect in an htaccess file, I think I’ve cracked it.

The original feed http://markupboy.com/rss should continue to work and all of the old urls for that feed should be redirecting to it. There is also an new alternate feed at feeds.feedburner.com/markupboy that will be the new canonical feed going forward.

I’ve recently gotten more into custom EE Add-On development and have found Pkg.io to be an invaluable resource. You can package up templates for every type of add-on imaginable, and it pretty much does all the work for you short of, you know, actually writing the add-on.

He may have never known my name but he undoubtedly helped shape my career and my passion. Thank you, Steve, for everything you’ve given me and the world.