As part of my continuing “Bash Fun” series, I have a few more tricks for Terminal junkies. These work in Bash and Zsh, and probably elsewhere.
bash, terminal, unix
I missed my yoga class this morning due to an upset stomach. I want to take a minute here while it’s giving me a break to talk about why I don’t like missing yoga.
health, personal, yoga
A while back I started working on a tool for debugging in Bash scripts. I basically just wanted a shorthand for using the command in Bash. Logr has grown over time, so I thought I’d share it as a project. It’s a work in progress, really, and I’m very open to suggestions.
bash, cli, logr, terminal, unix
I’ve updated iTunesIcon, my little Automator App for grabbing the high res versions of iOS and MAS app icons directly from iTunes. Version 2.2 had proven a bit buggy after some minor search API changes.
ios, iphone, itunesicon, macos, scripting, search
Last week I started having issues on High Sierra that I couldn’t resolve. Hours spent in Activity Monitor, Console, and surfing StackExchange sites led me to no further clues. The primary issue was increasingly frequent hang times, which led to horrible Skype calls, long waits in photo editing apps, and a general inability to use my MacBook Pro.
macos, quicktip
Flexibits just released their new Mac contact management app, Cardhop. I’ve been beta testing this app for a bit and it immediately became as much a part of my workflow as Fantastical (not coincidentally also by Flexibits), which is an app I use all day, every day.
appreview, apps, macos
Another year, another new operating system, another update to the Mail Vacuuming script that I first posted in 2012. It’s an AppleScript that performs the simple task of optimizing the database that Mail.app uses for all of your messages, speeding up load and search times.
macos
First, a quick reminder that there’s still time to enter the 60 Mac Tips giveaway and win $80 worth of awesome mac tips in iBooks and Vimeo streaming/download formats!
markdown, markdownservices, service
To help promote 60 Mac Tips: Volume 2, I’m running a giveaway. Six winners (drawn by KILLOTRON Giveaway Robot X1) will get both volume one and volume two, in both the iBooks version and the Vimeo streaming versions.
60tips, giveaway
