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Recipe Grabber
Keeping track of things you find on the internet is hard. Every service either wants to be the service for everything on the web and does a poor job displaying/indexing the content...

Readability
What do you do when you want to keep online content that's password protected, offline? For the past year or two, A shortcut to add to iA Writer worked fantastically! Except that a...

Extract Zoom links from Calendar
For some reason, Zoom refuses to connect my Northeastern schedule in to the app. Having to open the Calendar app, wait for it to load, click on the next event, and then double clic...

Retrieving data from a WKWebView and passing to SwiftUI
A vaguely related continuation of NEU Audit Parsing Skip the backstory 6 months ago, the Northeastern degree audit had bothered me to the point where I felt it was necessary to s...

Parsing Northeastern's Graduation Audit
See the full example here Northeastern's graduation audit software is unattractive, unintuitive, and annoying. I've had to use it on and off for over 4 years and each time I hav...

Backup and Setup a Mac from the Terminal
Setting up a computer is not the most enjoyable process. Having to copy over files, reinstall applications, and get system settings exactly as they were before is tedious and time ...

Daily Tracker
There are so many areas in the world where we are inefficient. It's something that increasingly bugs me with the growth of my knowledge and understanding. Specifically that there a...

Bashdoc - Parsing with Nom
Part 3 of the unintended Bashdoc series. Since October, my interest in rust has gone from curiosity to "what can I make next in Rust." One of the things I'd discovered ...

Bashdoc - Round 2
When I make something like bashdoc, once the idea and way to make it happen is in my head, I work on it over and over again until it's done. And when it's something like bashdoc wh...

Bashdoc - Round 1
I believe there is a moment where all developers discover how powerful and efficient mastering the command line is. When using Finder or actually clicking on things or moving the m...

Building a Mini Shell in Rust
Disclaimer: I'm sure there is a much more elegant way to do this. There are 4 parts to a shell: Read Evaluate Print Loop (REPL) for short. A recent assignment for one of my cla...

Making a Vim Extension for TeaCode
TeaCode is this really awesome code expander that has a key detail which puts it above all others for me. It recognizes filetypes as distinct. This means you can have some expander...

Directory and File Searcher
Since my discovery of fzf and ripgrep, I've been searching for a way to have a single place to search files and their contents easily. Over 3 months later, I found this snippet as ...

Simple Subscriptions
Inspired by Bobby, I wanted to make a very simple subscription tracker in the terminal. The result is a simple output like so: # Subscription Cost Freque...

TeaCode Previewer
In the slack channel for TeaCode, there is a channel #expanders where people can share there expanders. These come in .tcbundle files which look something like this: "expand...

Save Emails as PDFs
Someone posed the question of how to preserve emails on the Mac as PDFs here. It was a question I was curious about and had no idea how to answer. So, I started to do my research. ...

Splitting PDFs
Manipulating PDFs is quite a bit more difficult than I was expecting. Someone posted on the Mac Power Users forum asking if there was a way to programmatically split a pdf into mul...

Best Apps Ever MPU
Someone posted this wonderful question on Mac Power Users Forum asking what everyone’s favorite apps ever are. There was an incredible response of over 300 people. While it was int...

Things 3 Parser
This was my attempt at porting @pdavidsonreiler natural language parser in Drafts 5 for Things 3 to Python. I was curious about how it was done and about bringing that functionalit...

Shoe Scraper
I am a huge fan of minimal, very small sole shoes. All of Vivo Barefoot's shoes fit this desire. Except that they're way out of my price range. So, why not try and learn to scrape ...

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