Welcome!
I'm Kevin Today, former Palantir engineer, founder of Kurtosis, and writer.
Here you'll find links to my writing, tools I've built, gear I use, favorite books, and more.
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Personal Writing
On Substack. Some of my popular posts:
Tools I've Built
Live:
- cmdk, an "access anything" shortcut for the terminal just like Notion, Slack, Discord, etc.
- Wealthdraft, a financial planning tool for tracking your assets, monitoring net worth changes over time, estimating yearly tax, calculating changes needed to rebalance your portfolio, and more
- FIRE Calculator, a Python script to calculate how much money you need today to never need to work again (FIRE)
- FitPages, a web app for displaying data from the popular Fitnotes app
- Overpowered Writing Tools, a collection of tools for managing a writing repo as defined in An Overpowered Writing System (TODO LINK)
- CLI Journal, a CLI for writing and searching a repository of tagged journal entries
- CLI Journal, an automated pipeline for pumping Brazilian bank account transactions into YNAB
- Teact, a React-like framework for the Bubbletea TUI library
- ActivityWatch Screentime Loader, a tool for regularly pushing ActivityWatch screentime data to a webhook
- My Bash and Vim dotfiles
- safebrew, a tiny Homebrew backup system
- A script to download your Kindle highlights as JSON
- A tool for querying the US Treasury website to get the value of a multiple savings bonds at a time
Dead:
- Wunderpy2, Python bindings for Wunderlist (RIP)
- Smooth Mechanism, my very first attempt at automating my GTD system
- Unbox, a tool for symlinking things on your filesystem (e.g. your dotfiles) into Dropbox so they're always up-to-date
- file-vacuum, which attempted to do what
sftp
does before I knew sftp
existed
Tools I Want To Try
A list of tools built by others that I want to try, on Notion.
Music Playlists
- Chillout Cafe, a playlist of almost exclusively nonvocal, groove-heavy, lofi-focused tunes that I've been building since 2015 in preparation for the cafe I plan to open one day
- Focus Time, a list of hard-driving tunes for when I'm amped up on coffee and want to get into the work zone
- Gym
Books That Were Important For Me
2024-02 Gear
Everyday Carry
Mobile Office
Hermitcrab Home
I carry my "home" around with me in my suitcases
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