Automating Application Screenshots

Keeping help documentation screenshots up to date is tedious. Every time the UI changes, you end up manually opening windows, hiding distractions, capturing images, cropping them, generating @2x versions, and dropping files into the right folders. I got tired of that workflow for Marked, so I built an AppleScript that does most of it for me.

A lot of it this script is very Marked-specific —…

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A NYT Connections Helper

I love playing the New York Times game Connections. Some days it’s easy, occasionally it stumps me. I don’t cheat at it — I’ll take a loss when I have to.

What I _do_ do, though, is check the built-in hints to find out what order the categories are in. My goal is always to get the purple (hardest) first, which often involves figuring out at least the other three categories first. Once I know all…

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Karabiner Home row app switcher

Here’s a new Karabiner-Elements trick that I’ve been using to add home row app switching to my workflow. Tools like LeaderKey are great, but sometimes you just want the App Switcher, and sometimes you just want to be lazy with your fingers.

My goal was a home-row app switcher that triggered without leaving the home row, and didn’t steal keys for normal typing. The solution is a…

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