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colbyn / README.md
Created November 15, 2025 17:12
Open URL Lists Sequentially in Safari

URL Sequential Opener Scripts

This directory contains two Bash scripts for opening lists of URLs in Safari, one at a time, waiting for each window to be closed before proceeding to the next.

These tools are designed for workflows where you must manually inspect many pages without overloading history, CPU, or open tabs.


Scripts

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colbyn / notes.md
Created October 21, 2025 20:09
The mental health industry is ripe for disruption.

The mental health industry is ripe for disruption. Traditional therapy relies on state-licensed professionals charging premium rates for one-on-one sessions, but much of it boils down to discussing the human condition: subjective experiences like loss, relationships, and personal growth. Why enforce rigid licensing boards and standardized treatments that haven’t evolved much since Viktor Frankl’s era in the mid-20th century? These one-size-fits-all approaches can’t address inherently personal issues. Instead, we need market-driven solutions: a gig economy platform where anyone can offer paid talking sessions, regulated by user reviews, reputation, and demand rather than bureaucracy.

State licensing makes sense for objective fields like evidence-based medicine or precision treatments. But for “pay to talk” services (where clients vent, seek advice, or process life’s mess) it’s overkill. Human responses to existence are subjective; there’s no universal right or wrong. Standardized protocols ignore this, leadin

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colbyn / SystemicDoctrine.md
Last active August 30, 2025 02:10
Vibe Coded Notes — Doctrine of the Living System

Doctrine of the Living System


I. Foundations of System

  1. Every system is defined by its boundaries, stocks, flows, and feedbacks. To regulate, one must see the whole, not the part.
  2. Law of Requisite Variety: A regulator must contain as much variety as the disturbances faced. Capacity must equal disturbance.
  3. Feedback defines behavior. Reinforcing loops (R) amplify change; balancing loops (B) restrain it; delays (τ) obscure their power.
  4. Boundaries define behavior. To know what is inside and outside is to know what forces apply.
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colbyn / README.md
Created June 24, 2025 17:19
My Automated FFMPEG hardware recoding setup (desktop screen capture + camera + multiple audio sources for redundancy) all muxed into a single master copy

🎥 Clean Multi-Input Capture on macOS

A set of dead-simple FFmpeg helper scripts for recording high-quality, synchronized video + audio streams directly into a clean, editable .mkv master file on macOS. Designed for screen walkthroughs, project documentation, and clean archival capture using built-in or external hardware.

🎙️ Why Record and Mux Multiple Raw Streams?

This project is built around a "clean master capture" philosophy:

📦 1. Everything in One File (Synchronized)

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colbyn / check-hardware.sh
Created June 24, 2025 16:30
FFMPEG Video Recording Automation Scripts — 2025-6-24
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
# ffmpeg -encoders | grep -E 'hevc_videotoolbox|aac_at'
ffmpeg -encoders | grep -E 'hevc_videotoolbox|aac_at'
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colbyn / Turn.swift
Created June 23, 2025 16:19
Turn Angles
import Foundation
/// A type-safe representation of an angle in full turns.
/// One full turn equals 360 degrees or 2π radians.
struct Turn: Hashable, Codable {
/// The raw value in full turns. 1.0 = 360° = 2π radians.
let value: Double
/// Creates a `Turn` from a value in full turns.
/// - Parameter value: The angle in full turns.
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colbyn / ContentML-Copywriting-Design-Draft-V0.md
Created June 12, 2025 04:41
ContentML Copywriting Design Draft V0

What i'm doing with ContentML, in additional to the functionality as shown in WebCompiler is basically building a smart system to embed the timeless principles of copywriting right into the markup itself so the copy almost writes itself. It's like a digital assistant trained in classic advertising, working quietly behind the scenes to shape persuasive, audience-aware content every time you compile.

Provisioning LLM-Generated Content

This document describes the <provision> element in ContentML, which acts as a declarative hook for generating and embedding copywriting content via LLMs.

📘 Overview

The <provision> element specifies a placeholder within HTML that triggers one-time content generation during the provisioning phase. It uses the current context stack (inherited from surrounding <context> elements) along with a human-written prompt hint to generate copy for the site.

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colbyn / dont-squander-potential.md
Created March 7, 2025 05:18
Don’t squander potential | The post that got me banned from r/SuicideWatch

To the OP,

You should consider yourself lucky—without knowing the details—you may have been given second chance, a new lease on life, and so I hope you can find a new and more meaningful path in life. Many a time those who try in one way or another irreparably damage their bodes which only compounds their state of mental anguish. Again, perhaps you’ve been given a second chance and perhaps too you should consider devoting your time and energy to the service of others, or towards some higher ideal. 

To everyone else,

This sub can be quite dark. I guess such is the nature of this but sometimes I don’t know if people on where are real or not—potentially burying those posts from people who are in a crisis and there’s only so many people on here willing to donate their time to console those in such a state… I suppose there’s no knowing either way, my extended family was completely blindsided when a young woman committed such an act. Personally it’s a topic I’m very sensitive about. 

**Consider the foll

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colbyn / H3-Resolution-Levels.md
Created March 6, 2025 23:28
H3 Resolution Levels

H3 Resolution Levels

Understanding Multi-Resolution Indexing and Hierarchical Structure in H3

H3 uses a hierarchical system where the world is divided into hexagonal cells at different resolutions, allowing for multi-resolution indexing.

1. Multi-Resolution Indexing (Resolutions 0 to 15)

  • Resolution 0: The entire world is divided into 122 base hexagons.
  • Higher resolutions (1-15): Each base hexagon is subdivided into smaller hexagons.
  • Resolution 15: The smallest possible hexagons.
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colbyn / decline-american-cities-notes.md
Created February 28, 2025 04:41
Conversation History Notes on the Decline of American Cities

Are there any books on the history of American cities as they relate to community life? And perhaps their decline as well?

Absolutely — there’s a whole shelf’s worth of fascinating books on American cities, especially exploring how community life developed, flourished, and in many cases, unraveled. Here’s a mix of classics and more recent works that dive into both the social fabric of cities and the forces that shaped their rise and decline:

On Community Life + How Cities Functioned

  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (1961)
    The blueprint for thinking about cities as living, breathing ecosystems of people. Jacobs champions the importance of sidewalks, neighborhoods, and informal community ties — the very elements that make cities thrive.

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue (1996)