Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.

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‎SafeCam Pro
An interesting app that let’s you set a “trusted face” for your video calls, and then obscures the camera if that face steps away, laptop closes, etc.
Sortio

Sortio is an AI file sorter for Mac and Windows. Auto-sort, rename, and organize files by prompt. Free to try, Pro subscription available.

The developer describes this as “what you’d build if you got tired of writing Hazel rules — but without giving up the per-file precision.” This space is rapidly getting crowded, but this one is a good contender.

I’ve asked every dev of apps in this rapidly-crowding space to cater to those of us who use tags for file management, and this is the first one to come through. Check out the TagFiler-compatible workflow. Very exciting.

Fixing Up My Markdown
Stephen Millard’s fork of md-fixup.
Gnome — Quickly Share GIFs on Your Mac

A menubar app for quickly sharing animated GIFs anywhere you can type on your Mac, from Lex Friedman.

Free to use for 5 minutes, then you can only post Rick Astley or Weird Al GIFs without purchasing, which is pretty funny. As a GIF app should be.

Side note: I was initially confused by the note in the docs that it was named “Gnome” because that’s how Lex pronounces the G in GIF. I thought it was a joke, but Mastodon reminded me that, in the Linux world, GNOME is often pronounced Guh-nome. Which led to the usual arguments around the letter “G,” and Lex weighed in to basically say he was trolling. And I fell for it.

Tuna
New, modern launcher for macOS. Its capabilities look pretty outstanding. Might actually be a worthy competitor for LaunchBar, Alfred, Raycast, etc. The more I play with it, the more I think it’s pretty brilliant. Went ahead and purchased the Pro version ($49) to support the developer.

It’s a callback to Quicksilver, which long-time Mac users will remember, and it pays homage pretty well. In addition to keyboard shortcuts and fuzzy finding, it also has voice input mode which can use Apple transcriptions or an external model. If you use LeaderKey from the same developer, which I do, you can import your settings and Tuna can replace it. It even has a built-in Hyper key modification, which I haven’t tested as Karabiner is still solid for me.

Hat tip to hexaedre for pointing this one out.

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