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Author: tyler

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    A Quick Shell Script to Keep a LAN File Server Mounted All the Time

    Now that we're all stuck at home practicing social distancing, my children's mood depends on their favorite TV shows and movies always being available during their iPad free time. And my sanity depends on not hearing the awful clicking noise…

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    Spotish for macOS

    I know I keep referring to this tweet of mine from last year… One day I will get around to either releasing or open sourcing the dozen or so bespoke, one-off Mac apps I’ve built just for myself. Today is…

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    Three Things Today

    Every task management app has a feature that will let you postpone, delay, or snooze a task. You can tell them to push a todo item out by a day or a week, etc. But I like to think Three…

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    The Stack View is a Liar

    ...Firing up Xcode's wonderful view debugger, however, completely blew my mind and shattered any remaining self-confidence I had as an app developer. And then nearly an hour later I'm really questioning everything I thought I knew about ones and zeroes…

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    DefaultApp

    DefaultApp is an open source starting point – a template. I maintained it in Objective-C for over a decade before finally porting it to Swift in 2018. Anytime I start a new app – big or small, whether or not…