Chronicles of Noivad

Welcome to My Blog at NoiVad.net

Click the Blog menubar item to see my blog posts. I’m remaking this from a previous WordPress blog that was somehow deleted when I tried to install WordPress in a subfolder. I’m an avid computer user, and a former IT Technician among other things. I’ve done light graphics work: page layout app, normalized database building and maintaining, light php programming (I built a whole dynamic LAMP comics site), Systems Admin, mesh WiFi installs and maintained, Sound production assistant, and a few other things. So I’ve seen most computer problems from all sides. I can also build systems—both hardware and software.

I am currently interning at a audio and video recording studio, and I’ve been there a few years, mainly because I like the people there. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area I am looking for sound engineer positions (mixing, eq, etc.) in studio environments.

Thank you for reading this, I hope you find my blog posts informative and entertaining. I restarted this because I have things to say and record for posterity. When I die I hope my articles live on and provide some relevence, even though I’m destined for obscurity™.

  • How search from anywhere should work

    Currently, if you want to search for a term, you open a fresh webpage and type the query. One level beyond that, you copy-paste the terms from wherever it appears. In my Alfred Workflow, I search simply by highlighting text and hitting option-? That is, if you use Alfred and download my workflow https://github.com/noivad/alfred_workflows/releases/tag/Alfred .…

  • Music In Tahoe: Hellish

    The Biggest Problems with MacOS Tahoe’s Music.app A lot has been written about MacOS 16‘s (Tahoe) strengths and features, but little about how it actually is to navigate around the various included apps. The one most people will be familiar with is Music.app, that prior to the rename was called iTunes. This app is a…

  • Coming “Soon”: What’s wrong with masOS Tahoe Music app!

    Tahoe, saw a huge UI update to the Finder and other bundled apps. In short, so much was messed with Apple’s refresh of the UI to “Glass” it needs a who article talking about what’s wrong with it. macOS 26, Usually an update improves the speed, ease of use, and adds features that are powerful…

  • #StupidAppleTricks: The Video

    On macOS the padding between icons and other element could be tighter. If you want to make the most of your screen real estate every em matters. Apple tends to use 4em or more for spacing between elements. This is far too much. At half that, elements are is still distinctly separated, and the desktop…

  • MacOS: First App Installations

    Owning a computer opens up a whole world of possibilities. But in this world a lot of people don’t know about time savers and conveniences that us seasoned Mac Users (40 year in my case) have found on our journeys throughout the internet. There are a lot of articles about what to install first, I…

  • thanks for all the fish

    …the new posting UI is horrid…

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