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Today, I’m pleased to introduce something I’ve been working on for the past six months: Shortcuts Playground, a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can create any shortcut for Apple’s Shortcuts app using natural language. With Shortcuts Playground, you can simply prompt Claude Code or Codex with a sentence requesting a shortcut of any

The settings, theming and plugins that I have been using in my Obsidian vault for the last six years.

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Seeking IT independence, Europe wants to escape Microsoft Office. The question is: where to?

Smarter ways to stay current with audio

CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.

I thought I'd revisit NeoFinder as my photo catalog. I'm glad I did.

Win11Debloat 是一个开源脚本，它可以一键帮你安全的删除多达 90+ 款 Windows 11 自带应用（支持 Windows 10），包括 50 多个微软自带应用和超过 40 个第三方预装软件。除了节省空间，还能带来巨大的性能提升。@Appinn

Design flexible forms in 60 seconds

Yahoo! Pipes 曾经是一个用来重组 RSS 数据的可视化工具，由 Yahoo 提供，但已经关闭很久了。最近有开发者发布了新产品 Mashups，标语是：我们复活了 Yahoo! Pipes，我们的目标是让它变得更好。@Appinn

We built a(nother) house optimized for LAN Parties.

文颜是一款使用 Markdown 格式的文章排版工具，可以一键复制文章到微信公众号、知乎、今日头条、掘金，并且支持代码高亮、公式、链接转脚注等功能。目前已开源。@Appinn

For the first time since college, I’m using a paper planner. And I love it! I’d forgotten how great a paper planner can be.…

Check out our favorite writing app: Ulysses. In this article we breakdown why we think Ulysses is the best and show off a few contenders.

There are a few tools I use regularly that make me smile, because the craftspeople who made them decided to build something with extra magic and care. By using and paying for well crafted software,…

(NOTE: This post first appeared on foofaraw: 🌎 Where in the World is Jack? Vol.3) A theme for the past month has been,

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With news that OpenAI's ChatGPT Voice feature is now available to all free users, you can ditch Siri as your main voice assistant on your iPhone -- well,

One of the things that makes Obsidian unique is the ability to extend its capabilities with third-party plugins. In this post, we share a bunch of our favorite Obsidian plugins to help you take your personal knowledge management game to the next level.

I think, I think I've found a music workflow I'm happy with for 2024 and it looks like this.

Photographer Thomas Hawk shares why he believes Flickr is still the best online photo sharing service nearly 20 years into its existence.

You can use Cloudflare to customize your Mastodon username domain without needing to host your own Mastodon.

Wallpapers have always been a reflection of my often chaotic energy. I can sometimes spend months, or even years, without ever changing my wallpaper, and I can spend that same amount of time just frenetically changing it every day until I’m completely satisfied. A lot of that decision process is completely irrational, but I do

This is the 16th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jamie …

John: Every year, it seems like the MacStories Selects awards roll around faster than the last, and this year was no exception. For most people, the year begins on January 1st, but for us, WWDC marks the beginning of our year, and the MacStories Selects Awards feel like its conclusion. Plenty happens the rest of

Hi. My name is Cabel. And I’ve probably got the neatest job in the whole world. I wear many hats. But here on my personal blog, I get to write about the things I really care about, just for y…

The results of our poll asking how often you use Finder tags are in, and while tags aren’t broadly popular, being reminded of what they can do for you might encourage you to use them in appropriate situations.

Welcome to my yearly post about stuff I’ve loved in the last year. I love doing this because it reminds me how amazing the Mac/iOS app ecosystem is these days. I can’t list every app I use in this