Xcode | Open Source A Stupid-Simple Automated iOS Build Script I spent a couple nights piecing together a straight-forward, stupid-simple, build script that does exactly the minimum necessary to accomplish our goals - automatically build, sign, and submit to Apple on every commit to a specific release branch.
Photography | Apple More Apple Photos Fuckery Back in May I posted a Twitter rant about how iCloud Photos was fucking up videos I shot on my phone after upgrading to iOS 12.3. I'm happy to report that hasn't happened again. But now I'm running into this...
Mac | Indie Business | Apple Reviving an Old Mac App So I spent a few hours each night over the course of a week or two and built a tiny little Mac app that intercepts your ⌘Q presses and stops the frontmost app from quitting. Instead, it shows a window with a timer. If you keep holding down ⌘Q until the timer finishes, it will go ahead and...
Apple | AppleScript | Indie Business | Mac | Software The Mac Won’t Be Sherlocked I just want to point out that not everything in computing revolves around a 44pt tap target by highlighting a few amazing Mac apps from oft-overlooked developers who do a phenomenal job adhering to the very best parts of macOS while continuing to push the platform forward.
Productivity | Nerdery My Favorite Email Spam Filtering Rule Because I use a catch-all email address with my domain names, I get a lot of random spam. This is the simple rule I use to filter out the worst of it.
Mac | Software | Nerdery | Backups Automatically backup up the full contents of your Pinboard (and Pocket) bookmarks in DEVONthink I'm using the new beta version of DEVONthink to automatically create a searchable archive of every website I bookmark in Pinboard and Pocket.
Apple | Backups | Mac | Nerdery | Open Source | PHP How to Import Your Pinboard Bookmarks Into DEVONthink and Convert Them to Searchable Web Archives A PHP script to convert your Pinboard bookmarks into searchable web archives in DEVONThink.
Apple My One Feature Request For iOS 13 With WWDC fast approaching, it's the time of year when everyone posts their hopes and dreams and predictions for Apple's upcoming software release. There's tons of great ideas out there, and I certainly
Mac | Yahoo! | Server | Apple | Nerdery Creating a Permanent SSH Tunnel Back to Your Mac at Home Today's post is a bit more technical than what I've been writing about lately, but it's also partly for my own reference to save me some googling when I forget everything again in
Indie Business | Apple Apple Asked For Feedback Apple asked for feedback from developers today in an email survey. I try to keep this blog positive and restrict most of my snark to Twitter, but I figured I might as well
Mac | Apple | Nerdery Missing Rdio and Making the Best of Apple Music with Shortcuts Man, I miss Rdio. I mean, I really miss it. I loved that service. When I was a teenager, I'd spend hours on the weekend and get lost in new and used music
Mac | Writing | Drafts.app Starting and Finishing More Long-Form Writing in Drafts.app I'm writing this blog post in Drafts.app on my Mac. But before I publish it, I'll also probably do some light editing of it on my iPad before bed. And I've been
Apple Losing Faith I posted this to Twitter earlier today, but thought I'd add it here for posterity... Last week I mentioned that I had been yelling about Apple a lot on here lately and was
Cocoa | Mac | Indie Business | Apple Why Many of my Apps Failed And What Comes Next I've started building something new. I'm about four weeks in and already finding it incredibly useful in my day-to-day. I've built many different apps over the years, thrown them against the wall, and
Backups | Mac | Apple iTunes Match Failed Me Remember iTunes Match? It's great. But Apple stopped promoting it (probably rightly so) a couple years ago when they realized they could make more money charging $10/month for Apple Music than Match's
Nerdery Moving back to Google - just a little bit I've been hosting my company's email with FastMail since 2008. They're amazing. But my personal email had been with Gmail since the service was in beta in 2004. (And everything before Gmail lost
Backups | Photography | AppleScript Finder Folder Actions not being triggered when files are added with rsync A couple weeks ago I wrote about how I was automatically capturing the photos and videos my kids' daycare emails to me and importing them into Photos.app. The major pieces of that
Backups | Server Fixing Broken Backblaze B2 Scripts when Run From cron Just a quick note for my future self and anyone else who might be running into this problem. Last week I migrated all of my backups off of Amazon S3 and rsync.net
OmniFocus | Nerdery | Drafts.app A Faster Way to Create Multiple Tasks in OmniFocus (with all sorts of details!) Using Drafts.app Following-up on my previous post about using Drafts to create new GitHub issues, here's another action I built and use all the time. This allows you to create multiple tasks in OmniFocus with
Indie Business | Nerdery | Drafts.app Creating New GitHub Issues From Drafts.app After last week's post about how to create a GitHub issue with image attachments from an email, I thought I'd try and speed up how quickly / easily I'm able to create new issues
Backups | Photography | Apple Backing Up Shared iCloud Photo Albums and Where to Find Them on Disk In my quest to backup ALL THE THINGS, I turned my attention earlier this week to the shared iCloud Photo Albums my friends and family use to pass around photos and videos of
Indie Business | PHP Creating GitHub Issues (with image attachments!) From an Email I'm very meticulous about logging all of the feedback I receive from my customers. Whether it's a bug report or a feature request, I want all of that information captured in a single
Mac | Photography | AppleScript | Apple Fixing a Broken Service With a Tiny Bit of Automation This post is a nice, unintentional follow-up to yesterday's one about backing up all of my family's photos and home videos. Anyway... My kids go to a fantastic daycare. My wife and I
Backups | Mac | Amazon Web Services | Open Source | Photography | Server | Nerdery Backing Up Everything (Again) This will take a while. Bear with me. I'm obsessive about backing up my data. I don't want to take the chance of ever losing anything important. But that doesn't mean I'm a
PHP | Open Source A Simple, Open-Source URL Shortener tl;dr One evening last week, I built pretty much the simplest URL shortening service possible. It's simple, fast, opinionated, keeps track of click-thru stats, and does everything I need. It's all self-contained
