Category: Reviews
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It’s time for my yearly roundup of my favorite tools, hardware, and projects. I’m combining everything in one post this year. You might find something new, or you might just have your own preferences validated. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments! It’s been an interesting year. I lost my job in…
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You’re probably familiar with Spotlight, but there are other ways to find files on your Mac. And some of them don’t get enough love. I’ve tried all of these, and I like them all for different reasons. I’m generally happy with HoudahSpot when Spotlight fails me, but I wanted to point these out because they…
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Happy New Year! I managed to get the bulk of the Best of 2024 series out before the midnight deadline. Nice job, Brett. But here are a few late additions that I missed, and ones I’m looking forward to using more of in 2025. DEVONthink Pro OK, this one snuck up on me. I’ve been…
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Personal Projects: Not my busiest year on record, but I did a lot. Updated: Generate slick changelogs from Git commits I do all of my release notes using careful git commit messages. It makes life so easy. SearchLink I still consider SearchLink – out of a hundred projects – the most useful thing I’ve made,…
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This collection is more than just computer hardware. It’s physical things I’ve loved this year. Anything that isn’t software. Hardware Milk Street Nakari My new favorite kitchen knife. They’re fairly affordable and I love the form factor of the Nakiri, and given I eat mostly vegetables, it’s the most useful knife in my collection. YUZU…
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Like I said in my last post, I do way more on my Mac than I’ll ever do on iOS, so this will be significantly shorter. iOS is mostly for playing games, Messages, social stuff, and consuming media. But here are a few standouts. iOS apps Drafts When I wake up in the middle of…
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Here we go again with my yearly roundup of my favorite stuff. I’m going to do this year in a few parts. This one will be all Mac apps, and it will the longest because Mac apps are my favorite. Best new and updated macOS apps In no particular order, here are some of my…
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Suspicious Package is an indispensable tool for macOS with a long history, and surprisingly, it’s free. I’ve rarely mentioned it, so I thought I’d give it a quick review. Suspicious Package has been around for as long as I can remember. It’s been steadily updated over the years, and runs perfectly on the latest macOS…
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One of the major things I use mind maps for is developing longer-form writing. I do best spitting out all of my ideas for topics and chapters into a mind map, then editing the nodes into chapters and paragraphs. I’ve always done this with iThoughts, which has great keyboard shortcuts for navigating and switching between…
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I recently purchased some Cerakey ceramic keycaps for my Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. When I mentioned the purchase on Mastodon, I got a few replies asking for a review, as multiple people had been considering the purchase. [describe]Here’s my review of the Cerakey ceramic keycaps.[/describe] Note: I have 3 cats. I tried to clean the keyboard…