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  • Missing Rdio and Making the Best of Apple Music with Shortcuts

    May 23, 2019 7 min read

    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 stores (CD’s) just digging through stacks of beautiful album artwork and unfamiliar band names. I’d talk with other customers and ask the […]

  • Starting and Finishing More Long-Form Writing in Drafts.app

    May 21, 2019 3 min read

    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 capturing ideas, short thoughts, and building a basic outline on my phone over the past few days as things occur to me or […]

  • Losing Faith

    May 19, 2019 3 min read

    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 going to try and be more positive. But allow me one more thought before I shut up… We went on vacation this […]

  • Why Many of my Apps Failed And What Comes Next

    May 11, 2019 6 min read

    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 excitedly watched which ones developed a following and which ones failed miserably. Most of my apps have fallen into two categories. There […]

  • iTunes Match Failed Me

    May 3, 2019 3 min read

    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 $25/year. Anyway, I loved it and still do. It uploads all of your digital music to Apple’s cloud and makes it streamable on […]

  • Moving back to Google – just a little bit

    April 23, 2019 5 min read

    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 to time and bit rot. Sigh.) Around five years ago, I started getting nervous with so much of my online identity tied […]

  • Finder Folder Actions not being triggered when files are added with rsync

    April 22, 2019 2 min read

    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 script worked fine – parsing the emails, downloading the images, and then rsync’ing them down to my Mac every hour. But what was […]

  • Fixing Broken Backblaze B2 Scripts when Run From cron

    April 22, 2019 3 min read

    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 to Backblaze B2. The cost savings are enormous – especially for a small business like myself. And the server-to-server transfer speeds using their […]

  • A Faster Way to Create Multiple Tasks in OmniFocus (with all sorts of details!) Using Drafts.app

    April 20, 2019 2 min read

    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 defer dates, due dates, and tags in one step. It does this by parsing a compact, easy-to-write syntax that I’ve adopted from […]

  • Creating New GitHub Issues From Drafts.app

    April 20, 2019 1 min read

    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 that don’t come from customer emails – i.e., the ones that just randomly occur to me. Drafts is my preferred way […]