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👋 Hi there, I'm Isaac Halvorson. Welcome to my website.

Below, you'll find things that I've written. If you'd like to learn more about me or this site, please visit my About page.

2025

• LLMs as Companions
• Migrating and Rewriting the History of a Git Repository
• A More Personal Database

2024

• How to Speed Up Codecov Analysis for Xcode Projects, Revisited

2023

• How to Speed Up Codecov Analysis for Xcode Projects
• Good Mornings, an Intention
• Quick Tip: Hook Into GitHub Actions' Debug Mode
• Quick Tip: How To Change the Shell Used by an App
• How to Detect if Your macOS App Was Launched as a Login Item
• Xennialwave
• Set an Xcode Project's DerivedData Location via Script
• New Music Friday: May 5, 2023
• New Music Friday: March 31, 2023
• Contextually Open GitHub via the Command Line

2020

• October Replay
• My Favorite Music of 2019
• Projects Update #1

2019

• Thoughts on "Are podcasts killing music or just wasting our time?"
• A Book of Human Language | Bandcamp Hidden Gems

2018

• I Was On a Couple Podcasts
• Quick Tip: How to Enable CarPlay in the iOS Simulator
• Let's Learn about Waveforms | The Pudding
• Update All the Things
• My Guide to the Twin Cities
• iCloud Music Library Woes
• 2017 by the Numbers
• Spicy Uno

2017

• Solo Project: Finished

2016

• Solo Project Day Seven: To The Database and Back Again
• Finder Keyboard Shortcut to Show Invisible Files
• Moved to Digital Ocean + Let's Encrypt
• Solo Project Day Six: Saturday
• Solo Project Day Five: Enter the Database
• Solo Project Day Four: Too Big for my Britches
• Solo Project Day Three: The Day I Tweeted
• Solo Project Day Two: Getting Something on the Page
• Solo Project Day One: It Begins
• Fake News and Instagram | Manton Reece
• Why Commits to Forks on GitHub Don't Apply to Contributions
• Navigating Text Using the Keyboard on macOS
• Hundred Word Review: American Football (LP2)
• Writing for Half-Life | Marc Laidlaw
• World Mental Health Day
• Deep Linking in the Bandcamp iOS App
• The GitHub Challenge
• Machine Politics | The New Yorker
• My Dead Girlfriend's Bot | Joshua Allen
• Quiver: The Programmer's Notebook
• Shuffleboard at McMurdo | Idle Words
• Conversion via Twitter | The New Yorker
• My Music Recs Newsletter
• Tim Berners-Lee's Proposed Social Network
• Early Thoughts on Driving for Lyft
• Selenium Sulfide Shampoo for Dandruff Control
• Elon Musk Will Save Us All

2014

• Brief Thoughts on Disney's Frozen
• Good and Great Albums of 2013
• Brief Initial Thoughts After Finishing Super Mario 3D World

2013

• Why I'm Trying Soylent
• Modern Hip-Hop Production

2011

• Microsoft Has a Sense of Humor?

2010

• Project Xanadu

2008

• The Norns

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