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Month: October 2020

  • # articleOct 30, 2020· 1 min

    The Apple Hero 2020 Needs

    <p><a href="https://rakhim.org/">Rakhim</a> is the hero we need in 2020.</p> <p>Please don't let the comedic nature of <a href="https://twitter.com/freetonik/status/1322144670886100992?s=20">the video</a> turn you away. I'm not sure if there is a better way he could have presented this.</p> <p>Stay for the entire trainwreck so you can appreciate the focus of a two-trillion dollar company that says subscription services revenue is the future.</p> <p>He really does make some excellent observations about usability, attention to detail, care, and obviousness in software.</p> <p>I cackled for the full 18 minutes.</p>

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  • # articleOct 25, 2020· 5 min

    Voxmail – Voice Email with Siri

    <p>The idea for this app started eleven months ago as a collection of PHP scripts and a giant Shortcuts.app shortcut. But I quickly realized it would be best served as a real iOS app. I've been working on it off and on since February and have teased it a few times publicly on Twitter.</p> <p>But now I think I'm ready for broader feedback from outside my small group of testers. And hope that feedback will show that it's useful to more people than just me.</p> <p>The app is called Voxmail. And (I think?) it's the first iOS email client that you can't use on your phone.</p>

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  • # articleOct 24, 2020· 5 min

    Talking to OmniFocus

    <p>But one significant change I have made is to my morning routine. And it was made possible by OmniFocus' version 3.4 update last year. I'm sorry that I'm just now getting around to writing about this new workflow because it's a lot of fun. And it just might be my favorite new feature Omni has ever shipped. As a user, it's wowing me with the possibilities. And as an Apple developer, I'm amazed at how well done it is.</p>

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  • # articleOct 17, 2020· 5 min

    Motivation

    <p>A few years ago, my therapist told me I'm going to have just the right personality and temperament to enjoy my 40s when I get there. I wasn't entirely sure how to take his comment then, but now that I'm well into my thirty-eighth trip around the Sun, I think it's beginning to sink in.</p>

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  • # articleOct 10, 2020· 2 min

    Does Not Contain

    <p>I occassioanlly need to scan a folder and all of its subdirectories to see if any of them DO NOT contain files of a certain type.</p> <p>I'm fully aware you can do this with some combination of shell commands, but I always spent 20 minutes googling for how to do it again every time I needed to. It was faster just to write this small utility myself.</p> <p>I call it <code>dnc</code>, which stands for "does not contain". You can <a href="https://github.com/tylerhall/dnc">download the source or a pre-built binary on GitHub</a>. The builds aren't notarized. So be sure to ask Apple if it's OK to run this on your Mac.</p> <p>Read the full post for an example of why I need this script.</p>

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