<p>Eighteen hours later, I'm here to write about the dumb, little toy of an app I made this morning just for Big Sur. I honestly don't expect other people to use it. I'm not even sure if I'll keep using it. It was more of a "I hate this. I wonder if I can fix it?" type of thing.</p>
read the full post →<p>I've written previously about using Hazel on macOS to react to a new file appearing in a synced iCloud Drive folder and running commands. But I wanted a faster solution that I could trigger from almost anywhere – including an iOS Shortcut. A way to send a command directly from my phone (or maybe any other device?) to my Mac.</p> <p>What I came up with is a tiny, macOS menu bar app I call Shelley – because as a friend told me, it's a Frankenstein of a hack.</p>
read the full post →<p>The point of this blog post is to say that I'm preparing for an eventual move to another photo cloud service. I'm also trying to keep my local backups neatly organized. So, I wrote a small command-line tool to specifically deal with the Google Photos backup format that you'll receive if you request a dump of your data.</p> <p>It takes Google's directory structure and all their duplicated files, merges, sorts, and deduplicates your photos and videos into a sane folder structure – the one I've been using for over a decade.</p>
read the full post →<p>Oliver Reichenstein, founder of iA Writer, writes about Apple and modern software monopolies. The entire post is well worth reading. And whether you side with him and the $17.86 billion corporation or the $1.97 trillion corporation, you gotta admit it takes guts to lay out that argument on your company blog when the future of your business depends on the kind of day your next anonymous App Store reviewer is having.</p>
read the full post →<p>Jigsaw is one of those ridiculously fun (dumb?) ideas that come along and smack you upside the head one day and you can't help but take an afternoon to build.</p> <p>Apple already lets you sync the contents of your Desktop using iCloud. But, if you're a visual person like me who often arranges their Desktop icons in meaningful ways, not having the positions of your files on screen also stay in sync is frustrating as I move between my laptop and desktop throughout the day.</p> <p>Jigsaw solves that by syncing the positions of your Desktop icons over iCloud. Move a folder on your iMac, and a few seconds later it mirrors itself on your laptop.</p> <p>Jigsaw is free to download.</p>
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