Mac

via Retrobatch: Retrobatch turned 2.0!

via Steven Woolgar: @schwa secrets.app

via Kevin Stewart: People are obsessed with Obsidian, the darling of notetaking apps

via Glenn Fleishman: What happens if iCloud Drive stops syncing? I offer a cascading set of options to try to get the pump running again. It starts and concludes with my five-month battle to get one of my Macs fully synced. The secret solution? Sticking with Apple Support, which ultimately got enough information to engineering to fix it! Dang.

via Six Colors: Apple is destroying the Mac by trying to make it safer (Macworld/Jason Snell)

via Esther Schindler: Experience Flying Toasters, After Dark’s most popular Mac screensaver of the 1990s, reinterpreted using modern CSS.

via Sean: I found ExactScan to be a much nicer alternative to VueScan. Needed it once Fujitsu finally gave up on the S1500M.

via Leonardo Giovanni Scur: @scouten @staltz Not a “diff,” you have to install things its way, but that is the goal of #nix the package manager, which works on both Linux and Mac.

via Johan Wärlander 🦀: @scouten @staltz I guess something like Ansible can take you at least part of the way there?

Casey Liss rejoins the program to discuss his new app Callsheet and to give David and Stephen a tour of the apps and services he uses to manage his media.

via Uwe Schwarz ッ�: @rauschma if you additionally want OCR, take a look at ocrmypdf (installable via brew), it can reduce file size and add OCR-data to make PDFs searchable. Combine that with an Automator-Workflow for a folder and you get a real easy way to compress and OCR all PDFs.

via Jer 🚵🏼: For mac devs or just occasional command line users, this is a great collection of Terminal tips from @chockenberry.

Via a friend: When it comes to syncing with iOS devices to pull things off them (pics, video, etc), I’ve had very good luck using iMazing.

via Automadon: Automadon is live in the App Store!

via Mac Power Users podcast: 703: The Portable HomePod Mini Lifestyle: If you are a Mastodon user, you have probably come across the issue where you find a link … but it opens on an instance or a server that maybe you weren’t expecting. If you’re like me and run [an instance] just for yourself, then sometimes those URLs can be a bit messy. Homecoming for Mastodon is a Safari extension that basically just adds a button … it will open a page from another instance in your own.

via Mac Power Users podcast: 703: The Portable HomePod Mini Lifestyle: This is a web-clipper type extension … it does this by basically taking the text and the content of the page and putting it into Markdown document.

via Craig Hockenberry:

via Michael Tsai: Why You Can No Longer Roll Back a macOS Update

via rands: Bear 2 is an impressive update that gives an elegant application more personality and utility.

via Mac Power Users: Ep 701: The Safari Extension Roundup

via David Amador: I don’t see it mentioned enough times but Fork is one of the best git clients around imo, lightweight, simple and it just works. Win & Mac, free to try and one time purchase.

Like Zola, but for presentations.

Markdown + style = great interactive presentations.

via Yori Mihalakopoulos: OK, I’m finally releasing the git merge tool that I’ve been working on!

via Craig Hockenberry: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. To disable movie, PDF, and other useless previews, but still maintain the image on the icon, use this from Terminal:

via Federico Viticci: If you care about music metadata, the best app for liner notes – the excellent MusicSmart by @mactanaka – got a big 2.0 update and it somehow got even better.

Migrate photos from one processing tool to another.

via llimllib: Every time I set up a new mac, I update my install script that gets things most of the way installed for me.

via Scott Hanselman :verified:👸🏽🐝🌮: Amazing Anker charger I’ve used all week while traveling in Europe. It’s charged my Surface via USB-C and all my devices, plus has two pop-up US power sockets. Between this and my wireless Apple pad that’s it for the trip. 20% off coupon:

via Rust Weekly: TL;DR: lld is a great choice for faster linking of iOS, macOS, etc. debug binaries. It takes 20-50% less time than ld64 and is now used by many large companies. Steps on how to integrate are in the section below. zld has been archived in favor of lld.

Simon Willison: TIL that macOS ships with a default CLI command called “sips,” for “scriptable image processing system” - and it can convert webp images to PNG, but it can also generate entirely new images from scratch using an almost entirely undocumented canvas-based JavaScript API!

Me (on Facebook, now deleted):

Anyone have a favorite (Mac-based) music player for the music already on your laptop?