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  • # articleJul 19, 2021· 3 min

    MeetingBuddy

    A few weeks ago I built a niche little app idea dubbed MeetingBuddy. You choose a target app from a pre-defined list (or pick any app on your Mac) and a time interval and MeetingBuddy starts screenshotting that app's windows. Each recording session goes into its own folder where all of the screenshots are organized by date. But! while this is all going on, MeetingBuddy is also OCR-ing any text found in the screenshots and storing that alongside each image in a sidecar file. You end up with a folder of recordings for each session. Images and their corresponding text contents. Why is this useful? Honestly, I'm not exactly sure that it is just yet. But here's what I've been using it for.

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  • # articleJul 10, 2021· 3 min

    Delight on a Grand Scale

    I'm trying very hard not to fall into the trap of being yet another old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but I struggle to find delight on a grand scale in modern software. Every incremental step, year over year (from all companies, this isn't just about Apple), seems to be focused on removing emotion and affection from our devices rather than finding ways to strengthen that bond.

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  • # articleJun 26, 2021· 2 min

    Three Things Again

    The point of today's post is that while I've been using Three Things myself for a year now, a very nice person was kind enough to email me last week and let me know that the version posted online had expired. My bad. Here's an updated build. Also, this new version comes with an experimental new feature: iCalendar syncing!

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  • # articleJun 25, 2021· 1 min

    This Only Happens Here

    My five year old, driving home from daycare today, unprompted: I know what lockdown is. Like when we had to stay home for a long time last year? It's when we turn the lights off and lock the door and hide in…

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