How I Use an Apple Watch to Shoot Better iPhone Videos (with Less Gear)

After 4 years of primarily filming my YouTube content on a mirrorless camera (and GoPros), the past 6 months I’ve gone to filming more and more of my content on an iPhone. The key reason behind this shift is simplicity. With my Panasonic GH5 I have to worry about

Jun 11, 2025 • 3 min read

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Small EDC tool pouch

Another hallmark in the world of nerds is EDC tool pouches. What tools do you need on the daily, and how do you make it easy to carry them with you? The situation So let's get one thing clear, I’m obviously not doing any intensive work here.

May 25, 2025 • 4 min read

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AI for the part time enthusiast

So I’ve been trying to use AI in a lot of different situations to best understand where it shines. Ultimately, it was a long uphill battle, but it’s now become clear that it’s good enough for the part time enthusiast: * Home assistant hacker * Home lab wannabe * iOS

May 19, 2025 • 4 min read

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Electric Pumps are here! Ride Engine Airbox Review

I’m always looking for optimizations to my kite setup or my travel setup. Being a dad, a husband, having a full time job, and side projects —it just leaves so little time for kiting so I need to make the very most of the time I do get. Here’

May 8, 2025 • 6 min read

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Parenting tip: get a push bike that converts into a real bike

Becoming a new parent is like drinking from a fire hose; there’s just too much knowledge to be absorbed all at once. You never know which portion of knowledge you’ll actually need at any given moment— ask me how I know what a fever seizure is, or an

May 7, 2025 • 4 min read

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I Built a Mini Homelab media server rack

Between my Hue, Lutron, Starling home hubs, and my Apple TV, ethernet switches, and hdmi switches…. I’ve got a real life rat’s nest hanging out below my sofa. I’ve also got a Zimablade, GMK mini pc, Raspberry Pi, and two mac minis that need to be centralized

Apr 30, 2025 • 5 min read

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Security camera privacy hack: smart plugs

Like many people who got excited by the idea of smart homes, I didn’t think much about privacy concerns up front. Over time, having a microphone in my house that just sends recordings to a big tech company like Google or Amazon became increasingly more of a concern. This

Apr 25, 2025 • 4 min read

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Parent Hack: Automate Apple Watch Theater Mode for Bedtime

This is a small but impactful one. My Apple Watch turned into a land mine during bedtime—lighting up at the worst possible moments and distracting my daughter just as she was winding down. I never knew when it would light up and catch her attention—pulling her out of

Apr 21, 2025 • 3 min read

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My Kite foil travel setup for family trips

Recently I was on a family trip to France. The goal of the trip wasn’t kiting, but we were staying near the ocean, and there was definitely wind on occasion. The last trip had been a pain. I’d taken a split board travel setup, but it ultimately required

Apr 13, 2025 • 7 min read

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Using Todo Apps for organizing your storage / garage

This might be a problem that’s extremely specific to small apartment city living, but that’s the predicament that I’m in. I’ve got a growing family, a kitesurfing addiction, and I live in a 6-floor walk-up. This means I’m constantly looking for ways to use the

Mar 30, 2025 • 7 min read

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What I learned from making 100 YouTube videos

My stats * 2,4000 subscribers * 100 videos * Impression to click-through rate - 6% * Average view duration - 3:30 * Most viewed video - 72k 100 is the minimum Don’t give up until you hit 100 videos… at a very minimum. The only way to get good at YouTube is

Mar 21, 2025 • 5 min read

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Using a Kindle Scribe for journaling

I was never a huge ipad fan. On a whim I bought a used iPad Air 5 for a good price on Mercari, and unexpectedly became hooked on how thin and functional it was. The Apple Pencil functionality in particular got me excited in having an alternative to a keyboard

Mar 14, 2025 • 5 min read

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I designed a less ugly iPhone dock

I’ve had a MagSafe charger and Apple Watch charger on my bedside table for a long time, and I decided I was ready to find a setup that made it look less like a rats nest of cables. After looking at all the options on the market, I realized

Feb 15, 2025 • 5 min read

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The iPad isn’t ready to be a smart home display hub

I’ve talked about home automation here and here, and my basic claim is that voice assistants are bad UIs for smart homes. Having a screen to view confirmations that your voice commands were heard ends up being a much better experience. That screen also ends up being convenient for

Jan 2, 2025 • 6 min read