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2026

May 27
Fossils in the Ground
February 27
“Get 3 months of free music with your AirPods Pro”
January 27
“Things I think I’m good at”

2025

December 6
“This time it’s not fatigue, but disconnection”
November 26
Alan.app
August 11
Some Books
June 23
Migrating Day One Journal Entries to Obsidian
June 12
All Your Brand Are Belong To Us
January 14
minifeed
January 10
Advice

2024

December 18
Re: Music Year-End Lists
December 17
Steve
September 18
Little Known macOS Sequoia System Extensions
July 14
Here
June 8
Light Switch in a Dark Room
May 29
Inner Workings
March 21
It’s not about the 30 percent
February 6
Break the Build On Purpose
February 4
Because what the world needs is one more post about their initial reactions to using Vision Pro, here’s mine.
January 17
“…not worthy of your love.”
January 16
Modern-day Apple

2023

September 17
Using Reminders to Add Attachments to Calendar Events
July 31
MouseosaurusRex

2022

September 5
Do good. Get even more apps.
July 4
Straight out of 2003
May 12
Ode to That Thing We All Loved Dearly but Also Understand That Its Time Has Passed and We Should Probably Just Move On
March 6
Half-assed Followup
March 4
Half-assed Mac Apps
January 4
Roar Notifications

2021

December 18
A Better Way to Copy Two-Factor Codes on macOS
December 1
Retina Studio
November 30
Triple Tap to Capture
November 23
Capture Thing
October 28
That Person Exists
October 9
The 4:15 to San Francisco
October 9
Six
September 30
Augmented Reality Ducks
September 17
Conversations in the Dark with a Six-Year-Old
August 6
A Computer Company
July 20
The Title
July 19
MeetingBuddy
July 10
Delight on a Grand Scale
June 26
Three Things Again
June 25
This Only Happens Here
June 25
Time Machine
June 18
Let’s Reimplement an Amazing First-Party Feature in the Dumbest Way Possible
June 6
“No thanks to the App Store”
June 6
The Entire Amount of Commerce
May 27
TextBuddy is a Mac|Life Editor’s Choice
May 20
Extra Searchable Meeting Notes
April 1
Finder Catalog Numbers
March 20
Mortal Mac App Sins
March 7
Calendar Hero
March 1
TextBuddy for macOS
February 13
Receipts
February 4
Roundabout Syncing
January 27
An Email Followup About Standing Desks and Ultrawide Monitors
January 20
Ow, My Back

2020

December 13
240 Invisible Pixels
December 9
One Year of App Pricing Experiments
November 30
Standup.app
October 30
The Apple Hero 2020 Needs
October 25
Voxmail – Voice Email with Siri
October 24
Talking to OmniFocus
October 17
Motivation
October 10
Does Not Contain
October 9
Dot Dee Tee
October 9
Five
October 8
Solving Problems on Systematic
October 1
The App That Never Was
September 26
Digital Heirlooms
September 21
Sample Code to Make your Mac App Open at Launch and How to Handle Global Keyboard Shortcuts
September 17
Listen Up
September 11
Don’t Let Experience Get in Your Way
September 5
Surtainly Not
August 27
Shelley
August 22
Merging and Deduplicating a Whole Lot of Google Photos
August 16
An Epic Blog Post
August 5
Download Jigsaw for macOS
August 2
Visually Syncing Your Mac’s Desktop
July 20
DIY Video Hosting
July 15
Process
June 29
BespokeApp
June 21
A Pirate Looks (Nearly) at Forty
June 16
Very Simple
June 13
GrannySmith
June 4
Do You Hear That?
May 23
Absolutely Priceless
May 22
Preparing For Work Meetings
May 16
JavaScript – A Bedtime Story
May 8
StopTheJeff
April 28
Additional MailMate Tips
April 24
Fear and Light
April 15
Fastmail Wrapper for macOS
April 13
Roland is a Static Website Generator Written in Swift
April 6
MailMate
April 5
April 5, 2020
April 1
#IndieSupportWeeks
March 31
So, uh, I think Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH?
March 25
A Quick Shell Script to Keep a LAN File Server Mounted All the Time
March 25
Spotish for macOS
March 20
Three Things Today
March 16
The Stack View is a Liar
March 14
DefaultApp
March 7
Followup: Comparing my Current B2 Storage Costs against Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
March 6
My Family’s Photo and Video Library Backup Strategy in 2020 – Plus a Fun Anecdote I’ve Never Told Before
February 27
Better Recurring Projects Using OmniFocus and TaskPaper
February 17
Begrudgingly
February 6
Deactivated
February 1
I May Have Gone Overboard with My Keyboard Shortcuts
January 26
How to Set Custom Display Values and Localize NSPredicateEditor
January 23
Quick Access to My Favorite Folders with Keyboard Maestro
January 17
Focus
January 7
Running commands remotely on a Mac that you don’t have access to using Hazel and Dropbox
January 2
Rebudget

2019

December 12
Subscriptions or Bust
December 3
Making Siri Shortcuts run automatically – even when iOS doesn’t want you to
November 24
Triage Your Email in the Car with Siri
November 18
Rebecca Stand and the phone reason
November 5
Gone
October 17
Perfectly Cropped
October 16
Feels like the future
October 14
Aftermath
October 9
Broken
October 7
macOS 10.15 Vista
July 27
A Stupid-Simple Automated iOS Build Script
July 6
More Apple Photos Fuckery
June 22
Reviving an Old Mac App
June 10
The Mac Won’t Be Sherlocked
June 9
My Favorite Email Spam Filtering Rule
June 7
Automatically backup up the full contents of your Pinboard (and Pocket) bookmarks in DEVONthink
May 30
How to Import Your Pinboard Bookmarks Into DEVONthink and Convert Them to Searchable Web Archives
May 27
My One Feature Request For iOS 13
May 26
Creating a Permanent SSH Tunnel Back to Your Mac at Home
May 24
Apple Asked For Feedback
May 23
Missing Rdio and Making the Best of Apple Music with Shortcuts
May 21
Starting and Finishing More Long-Form Writing in Drafts.app
May 19
Losing Faith
May 11
Why Many of my Apps Failed And What Comes Next
May 3
iTunes Match Failed Me
April 23
Moving back to Google – just a little bit
April 22
Finder Folder Actions not being triggered when files are added with rsync
April 22
Fixing Broken Backblaze B2 Scripts when Run From cron
April 20
A Faster Way to Create Multiple Tasks in OmniFocus (with all sorts of details!) Using Drafts.app
April 20
Creating New GitHub Issues From Drafts.app
April 19
Backing Up Shared iCloud Photo Albums and Where to Find Them on Disk
April 8
Creating GitHub Issues (with image attachments!) From an Email
March 29
Fixing a Broken Service With a Tiny Bit of Automation
March 27
Backing Up Everything (Again)
March 21
A Simple, Open-Source URL Shortener

2018

February 15
Moving Projects Forward
January 4
Switching to Google Photos from a Dropbox Photo Library
January 3
Permission to Forget
January 2
GeoHooks

2017

September 26
Moving to a More Comprehensive Weekly Review
August 23
Can the Cloud Be Your Only Backup?

2016

December 1
Creating a Daily Standup Perspective With OmniFocus
July 4
A Stupid Idea?
February 1
Making Money Outside the Mac App Store
January 19
Coding on My iPad Pro

2015

December 16
Wrapping up 2015
November 28
Switching Email Providers
October 20
Harper Elizabeth
August 24
Must, Will, Might
August 24
No Phone Thursdays
August 9
My New Email Routine With SaneBox
August 1
Connecting Amazon Alexa’s Todo’s with OmniFocus
March 18
Duplicate Tasks
January 23
Where do External Triggers Belong?
January 22
I Will Not Use the Phrase “Growth Hacking”
January 14
Creating a Weekly Preview from your Weekly Review
January 12
External Triggers in OmniFocus
January 8
Lowering the Project Threshold
January 5
Even Panic is Having Trouble Making Money on iOS
January 2
Benefits of Selling Outside the Mac App Store

2014

December 29
2014 Business Yearly Review
December 29
My Inboxes
December 17
That Connection
December 9
More App Rejections
December 4
Writing Without Editing
December 1
Being an Indie is Hard
November 30
36 Hours With Amazon Echo
November 24
Knowing When to Quit
November 23
An Indie Mac Business – Breaking Down the Year
November 22
Twelve Hours
November 21
Handling Repeating Tasks and Routines in OmniFocus
November 10
My Checklist For Releasing a New Mac App
November 8
My Evernote @Inbox
November 4
My OmniFocus Habits – Four Years Later
October 27
Delegating Tasks and Outsourcing Your Indie Business
October 13
Constraints
October 6
Paul Kim on His Indie Journey
September 16
Marching Through the Wilderness
September 15
Assigning Relationships Between Tasks and People in OmniFocus
September 13
Big or Small
September 10
How I Manage My Email
September 9
All The Services and Tools I Use to Run My Software Business
August 27
First Impressions of Using Drip for Email Marketing Automation
August 27
My Favorite Coffee Cup
August 25
Indie Developers are Stronger Together / Sharing Our Numbers
August 24
Mailing Lists Are Your Friend
August 19
Marketing is just another stage in the development process
August 18
Encouraging Serendipity
August 14
Zero Sales Days with a Little Impostor Syndrome Mixed In
August 4
Your First Success is a Trap
July 29
My App Strategy – Keep Trying New Things
July 28
More Business Advice from Gus Mueller
July 28
Daniel Jalkut says, in a tweet, what I tried to say with 2,000 words
July 28
A Candid Look at the Financial Side of Building Mac Apps on Your Own
June 19
How to Export Slow Motion Videos From iOS to Facebook
May 5
Dropbox Photography Introduction
May 1
Bellroy Note Sleeve Wallet Review
April 15
Day One Journal Total Word Count
April 15
A Happy Side-effect of Journaling Every Day
April 14
Rockwell – Sort of like a private Foursquare meets Fire Eagle
April 12
Minion for Mac
April 6
The Thrill
April 3
Pricing a New Mac App Without Competition
April 3
One Concrete Action
April 2
iCloud Doesn’t Backup Your Photos
April 1
Printing and Mailing Photos to Your Grandparents
March 31
Dealing with Asshole Customers
March 28
My Favorite Chair
March 21
Importing Jekyll Posts into WordPress
March 19
Switching from GitHub to GitLab
January 1
Aaron

2013

December 31
Nostalgia – Rename Your Photos
October 22
Journaling
October 14
Choosing the Right App
October 7
Finding Related Messages in Apple Mail
September 12
Setting Up NSOutlineView Drag and Drop with Core Data in Cocoa
April 8
PebbleCam
March 4
Using Hazel to Highlight any Uncommitted git Changes
February 20
OmniFocus for People Who Work From Home

2012

September 9
Cutting Back on iPhone Notifications

2011

November 26
Remember to Backup
November 16
Publishing Your Blog with Dropbox and Jekyll
September 25
Guessing a User’s Location on iOS
September 11
Why I Took the Job
August 28
Switching From WordPress to Jekyll
July 12
Automatically Reposition the iOS Simulator on Screen
July 8
Creating a Universal Binary With Xcode 3.2.6
May 25
A Big Mouse Cursor
May 18
Experimenting with Piracy – An Indie Mac Developer’s Perspective
April 20
Syncing Your Adium Chat Logs into Dropbox (again)
April 18
Unsupported Architecture When Submitting to Mac App Store
February 25
Search Mac and iOS Documentation From Chrome’s Omnibox

2010

November 30
Sosumi for Mac – Find Your iPhone From Your Deskop
November 23
Backblaze Saves the Day
October 15
Automatically Compressing Your Amazon S3 Images Using Yahoo!’s Smush.it Service
October 13
How I Use OmniFocus to Organize My Life
August 12
Generating Strong, User Friendly Passwords in PHP
July 1
How I Backup my Mac
June 21
Open Source Updates

2009

December 27
OpenFeedback Part Deux
December 23
Switching From PayPal to FastSpring
August 6
Shine – An Indie Mac Dashboard
June 23
Sosumi – A MobileMe Scraper
April 20
Persistant Location Updates From iPhone to Fire Eagle
March 26
Google Voice Dialer
March 9
YUI App Theme
February 25
PHP Wrapper for Yahoo! GeoPlanet
February 7
Serving Static Content on Amazon S3 with s3up
January 28
Download All of Your Flickr Photos and Sets
January 24
Sync Your Adium Chat Logs With Dropbox
January 14
Use Rapache to Manage Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu
January 5
Forward Your Growl Notifications to Twitter

2008

November 18
Amazon S3 Improvements in PHP-AWS
November 14
Parse Command Line Arguments in PHP
September 10
How to Stream Your iTunes Music Over the Internet
August 20
Too Soon
August 15
Dial a Phone Number Using Grand Central and PHP
July 1
Cornerstone SVN Client for Mac
June 17
Let Google Do The Work For You
June 10
Sort Apple Mail Messages Using the Keyboard
June 2
Introducing Appcaster + OpenFeedback
May 21
Scraping IMDB With PHP
May 18
Two Weeks With Drobo
May 13
Quickly Evaluate Your Referral Links
May 9
Using Amazon S3 as a Content Delivery Network
May 6
Building a Better Website With Yahoo!
April 29
Dark City Director’s Cut
April 28
Mercury Mover
April 26
Holy Crap! Mint Plugin
April 7
Bank of America RSS Feeds
February 19
Managing Exchange Invites in Apple’s iCal
February 1
Microsoft and Yahoo! – My Take
January 16
Uncov Nails It
January 16
Lost’s Buried Treasures
January 2
How To Install PEAR in Mac OS X Leopard

2007

November 8
Navigate Yahoo! Search Results Using Only Your Keyboard
November 5
Retain Your Employees With Your Ideals, Not Your Perks
November 1
50 States Programming Puzzle
October 26
How to Enable PHP5 In Mac OS X Leopard
October 25
My Favorite New Leopard Feature
October 25
Leopard First Impressions
October 24
What is Twitter?
October 3
foo9 URL Shortener
September 13
iPhone Versus Dog
September 10
Lessons From a First Time Mac Developer