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  • # articleMar 25, 2020· 3 min

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

    <p>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 of the external drive our video library is stored on while I'm working at my desk. Moving it to a networked file server running off a Raspberry Pi was simple enough and solved the problem. But after trying a few 3rd party apps to keep the network share always mounted, here's the simple shell script I wrote instead.</p>

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  • # articleMar 25, 2020· 5 min

    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 not that…

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  • # articleMar 20, 2020· 11 min

    Three Things Today

    <p>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 Things is smarter than that. It's designed to be flexible and forgiving – pragmatic and realistic. When you defer a task, it won't accidentally reschedule it for a day that's already overflowing with commitments. It literally will not allow you to schedule more than three tasks per day.</p> <p>It fits my brain. Maybe it'll fit yours, too.</p>

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  • # articleMar 16, 2020· 5 min

    The Stack View is a Liar

    <p>…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 until a google search leads me to this page. And, sure enough, my bug is spelled out right there.</p>

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  • # articleMar 14, 2020· 6 min

    DefaultApp

    <p>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 it's something I plan on releasing publicly or if it's just a small prototype or utility app I'm building for myself – I start with this project.</p> <p>With DefaultApp I can go from initial idea to writing actual code in thirty seconds.</p> <p>That said, I would't use this as the basis for a billion dollar corporation's enterprise app. Or with a team of "100 engineers" "solving hard problems". But if you're a one-person development shop or a team of just two or three engineers building a typical macOS shoebox or document based app? Please take a look.</p>

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