Post Archives

2026

Jul 5Escape from Squircle Jail
May 27Fossils in the Ground
Feb 27“Get 3 months of free music with your AirPods Pro”
Jan 27“Things I think I’m good at”

2025

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

2024

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

2023

Sep 17Using Reminders to Add Attachments to Calendar Events
Jul 31MouseosaurusRex

2022

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

2021

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

2020

Dec 13240 Invisible Pixels
Dec 9One Year of App Pricing Experiments
Nov 30Standup.app
Oct 30The Apple Hero 2020 Needs
Oct 25Voxmail – Voice Email with Siri
Oct 24Talking to OmniFocus
Oct 17Motivation
Oct 10Does Not Contain
Oct 9Dot Dee Tee
Oct 9Five
Oct 8Solving Problems on Systematic
Oct 1The App That Never Was
Sep 26Digital Heirlooms
Sep 21Sample Code to Make your Mac App Open at Launch and How to Handle Global Keyboard Shortcuts
Sep 17Listen Up
Sep 11Don’t Let Experience Get in Your Way
Sep 5Surtainly Not
Aug 27Shelley
Aug 22Merging and Deduplicating a Whole Lot of Google Photos
Aug 16An Epic Blog Post
Aug 5Download Jigsaw for macOS
Aug 2Visually Syncing Your Mac’s Desktop
Jul 20DIY Video Hosting
Jul 15Process
Jun 29BespokeApp
Jun 21A Pirate Looks (Nearly) at Forty
Jun 16Very Simple
Jun 13GrannySmith
Jun 4Do You Hear That?
May 23Absolutely Priceless
May 22Preparing For Work Meetings
May 16JavaScript – A Bedtime Story
May 8StopTheJeff
Apr 28Additional MailMate Tips
Apr 24Fear and Light
Apr 15Fastmail Wrapper for macOS
Apr 13Roland is a Static Website Generator Written in Swift
Apr 6MailMate
Apr 5April 5, 2020
Apr 1#IndieSupportWeeks
Mar 31So, uh, I think Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH?
Mar 25A Quick Shell Script to Keep a LAN File Server Mounted All the Time
Mar 25Spotish for macOS
Mar 20Three Things Today
Mar 16The Stack View is a Liar
Mar 14DefaultApp
Mar 7Followup: Comparing my Current B2 Storage Costs against Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Mar 6My Family’s Photo and Video Library Backup Strategy in 2020 – Plus a Fun Anecdote I’ve Never Told Before
Feb 27Better Recurring Projects Using OmniFocus and TaskPaper
Feb 17Begrudgingly
Feb 6Deactivated
Feb 1I May Have Gone Overboard with My Keyboard Shortcuts
Jan 26How to Set Custom Display Values and Localize NSPredicateEditor
Jan 23Quick Access to My Favorite Folders with Keyboard Maestro
Jan 17Focus
Jan 7Running commands remotely on a Mac that you don’t have access to using Hazel and Dropbox
Jan 2Rebudget

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

Dec 1Creating a Daily Standup Perspective With OmniFocus
Jul 4A Stupid Idea?
Feb 1Making Money Outside the Mac App Store
Jan 19Coding on My iPad Pro

2015

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

2014

Dec 292014 Business Yearly Review
Dec 29My Inboxes
Dec 17That Connection
Dec 9More App Rejections
Dec 4Writing Without Editing
Dec 1Being an Indie is Hard
Nov 3036 Hours With Amazon Echo
Nov 24Knowing When to Quit
Nov 23An Indie Mac Business – Breaking Down the Year
Nov 22Twelve Hours
Nov 21Handling Repeating Tasks and Routines in OmniFocus
Nov 10My Checklist For Releasing a New Mac App
Nov 8My Evernote @Inbox
Nov 4My OmniFocus Habits – Four Years Later
Oct 27Delegating Tasks and Outsourcing Your Indie Business
Oct 13Constraints
Oct 6Paul Kim on His Indie Journey
Sep 16Marching Through the Wilderness
Sep 15Assigning Relationships Between Tasks and People in OmniFocus
Sep 13Big or Small
Sep 10How I Manage My Email
Sep 9All The Services and Tools I Use to Run My Software Business
Aug 27First Impressions of Using Drip for Email Marketing Automation
Aug 27My Favorite Coffee Cup
Aug 25Indie Developers are Stronger Together / Sharing Our Numbers
Aug 24Mailing Lists Are Your Friend
Aug 19Marketing is just another stage in the development process
Aug 18Encouraging Serendipity
Aug 14Zero Sales Days with a Little Impostor Syndrome Mixed In
Aug 4Your First Success is a Trap
Jul 29My App Strategy – Keep Trying New Things
Jul 28More Business Advice from Gus Mueller
Jul 28Daniel Jalkut says, in a tweet, what I tried to say with 2,000 words
Jul 28A Candid Look at the Financial Side of Building Mac Apps on Your Own
Jun 19How to Export Slow Motion Videos From iOS to Facebook
May 5Dropbox Photography Introduction
May 1Bellroy Note Sleeve Wallet Review
Apr 15Day One Journal Total Word Count
Apr 15A Happy Side-effect of Journaling Every Day
Apr 14Rockwell – Sort of like a private Foursquare meets Fire Eagle
Apr 12Minion for Mac
Apr 6The Thrill
Apr 3Pricing a New Mac App Without Competition
Apr 3One Concrete Action
Apr 2iCloud Doesn’t Backup Your Photos
Apr 1Printing and Mailing Photos to Your Grandparents
Mar 31Dealing with Asshole Customers
Mar 28My Favorite Chair
Mar 21Importing Jekyll Posts into WordPress
Mar 19Switching from GitHub to GitLab
Jan 1Aaron

2013

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

2012

Sep 9Cutting Back on iPhone Notifications

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

Nov 8Navigate Yahoo! Search Results Using Only Your Keyboard
Nov 5Retain Your Employees With Your Ideals, Not Your Perks
Nov 150 States Programming Puzzle
Oct 26How to Enable PHP5 In Mac OS X Leopard
Oct 25My Favorite New Leopard Feature
Oct 25Leopard First Impressions
Oct 24What is Twitter?
Oct 3foo9 URL Shortener
Sep 13iPhone Versus Dog
Sep 10Lessons From a First Time Mac Developer