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Gotta point there.
\"Jack and Diane\" by John Cougar
Listen on Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/jack-and-diane/1440918606?i=1440918946)
Share a song that captures the feeling of being seventeen. - Jack and Diane by John Cougar
I grew up fast. I was desperate for adulthood and freedom, but the good stuff already felt...
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@ttscoff If I wasn’t on that list, I’m going to be pissed. I want “influential Mac blogger” inscribed on my cremation urn.
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Can anyone defend the practice of playing cell phone videos with no headphones while in a public place?
Today on AppAddict - Daily Skips the Timer Problem Entirely — Now It Talks to Your Other Apps Too - If you bill clients by the hour, it might be time to reevaluate your workflow. Daily, a Mac time tracker from independent developer Niels Mouthaan, continuously supported since 2013, just got a substantial...
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@markstoneman I just started on 404’s paid plan. They join Wired and The Atlantic in my MSM portfolio and Democracy Now and ProPublica on the left.
\n","url":"https://talqix.cloud/amerpie/94606923","date_published":"2026-07-24T21:38:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Lou Plummer","url":"https://amerpie.lol","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2025%2F09%2F1544290.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"amerpie"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-24 21:38","date_timestamp":1784929135,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94585662","content_html":"Today on AppAddict - Imagin Raw: a 4.3MB, free, open-source Bridge alternative for culling RAW files - TL;DR Imagin Raw is a free, open-source Mac app (4.3 MB) for culling and rating RAW photos — no import, no library, folders stay where they are. Writes ratings/labels to standard XMP sidecars so Lightroom...
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The guy who preached about forgiveness, mercy and helping the poor has somehow become associated with the meanest and most selfish Americans.
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\"Sexual Healing\" by Marvin Gaye
Listen on Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/sexual-healing/205881652?i=205881936)
Share a song that feels like it has healing powers - Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye
\"Sexual Healing\" works because the arrangement carries the argument: the drum machine's pulse against...
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Coming soon, Matterhorn, an independent project through and through: think Goodreads or Letterboxd for the places you've been. Track and rate your travels, keep a real bucket list, and get recs from a community whose taste you trust. Launching later this year.
","summary":"","url":"https://social.lol/@amerpie/116973843202686585","date_published":"2026-07-24T07:46:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Lou Plummer","url":"https://amerpie.lol","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2025%2F09%2F1544290.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"amerpie"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-24 07:46","date_timestamp":1784879199,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94535948","content_html":"Today on AppAddict - Iris, The Mac Photo App for People Who Don't Trust iCloud With 80,000 Photos - TL;DR:
Iris is a Mac photo viewer that indexes photos where they already live (folder, external drive, or your existing Apple Photos library) instead of importing them into a managed database. It does on-device...
Iris, The Mac Photo App for People Who Don't Trust iCloud With 80,000 Photos ![\"\"](\"https://talqix.cloud/photos/50/https://mb.appaddict.app/uploads/2026/cleanshot202026-07-2320at2011.33.35.jpg\")
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Today on AppAddict - An Internet Love Letter - As a Reddit user for over 20 years, I feel qualified to do a deep dive on my favorite subreddit, r/MacApps. I recently analyzed the culture that's developed there.
I've decided I like this place, so I am hanging around despite some of its quirks.
Take your average...
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","summary":"","url":"https://mb.appaddict.app/2026/07/23/an-internet-love-letter.html","date_published":"2026-07-23T09:23:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Lou Plummer","url":"https://amerpie.lol","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2025%2F09%2F1544290.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"amerpie"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-23 09:23","date_timestamp":1784798580,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94630187","content_html":"https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2026/screenshot202026-07-2320at205.21.26e280afam.png\n\nAs a Reddit user for over 20 years, I feel qualified to do a deep dive on my favorite subreddit, r/MacApps. I recently analyzed the culture that's developed there.\n\nI've decided I like this place, so I am hanging around despite some of its quirks.\nTake your average question, let's say it's someone asking about a simple app to keep a window on top. Within an hour, the replies will include:\n\nA free open-source utility\nA $5 single-purpose app\nA $30 app that also performs 46 unrelated functions\nA recommendation for Raycast\nSomeone saying that Alfred can do it better\nSomeone else announcing that subscriptions are destroying civilization\nThat guy who accuses everything of \"being AI\"\nThe developer of a completely different app, praising the question and dropping a link to his unrelated app \"if you're interested\"\n\nThis is a feature, not a bug.\nFew things make me sadder than someone who confesses that they have been thinking about getting an app like Keyboard Maestro, but they're holding off because they \"are not a power user.\" We need to clear up some misconceptions. First of all, their reaction is understandable: in KM, there are colored blocks, nested actions, variables, conditions, triggers, and mysterious references to shell scripts. The whole thing looks less like a Mac app and more like the control system for a nuclear reactor. Most people just want to open an app, do something, and close it. They do not want to spend Saturday afternoon creating a four-finger trackpad gesture that resizes Finder, launches Obsidian, mounts a server, and tells the kitchen Echo to play London Calling.\nSome of us do.\nThe Power User Defined\nA Mac Power User (MPU) is not necessarily someone who knows how to write code, who uses the Terminal exclusively, or has memorized every defaults write command ever posted on Stack Overflow.\nA power user is just someone with a low tolerance for friction and a high tolerance for tinkering. That's the whole entrance exam. If you've ever been annoyed enough at a repeated task to wonder whether there's a better way, you're already qualified. The apps aren't the hard part; deciding you're allowed to use them is.\nThey notice repeated friction, investigate whether it can be removed, and then spend 45 minutes automating a task that previously took eight seconds. This looks irrational until the automation fires correctly for the first time. At that moment, the heavens open, angels sing, and those eight seconds become a matter of principle.\nWhat matters isn't technical skill; it's the persistent belief that the Mac could behave better if only someone would make it listen. When you stop seeing applications as singular entities and begin seeing how they form an interrelated system, that's when you have the mental framework required of an MPU.\nA screenshot is not just a screenshot. It must be captured, annotated, compressed, renamed, filed by date, and moved into an archive folder after 30 days. Ideally, none of this should require conscious thought. (Confession: this is my actual workflow via Screenshot X, Hazel, Clop and NameQuick). The question is never just, \"What does this app do?\"\nIt is, \"Can I trigger it with a hotkey, AppleScript, URL scheme, command-line tool, Shortcuts action, Stream Deck button, or unusually aggressive trackpad gesture?\"\nThey do not:\n\nNecessarily know how to code\nHave a \"clean\" setup; most of us are one launcher away from chaos\nAgree with each other about anything, ever\n\nThat last one matters. Put two power users in a room and you'll get three opinions about clipboard managers.\nWe Hold Strong Opinions About Little Things\nA power user can remain calm during the failure of an operating-system upgrade or a smoking router. If some app moves one menu bar icon without permission, however, the day is ruined.\nSmall interface problems become deeply personal:\n\nAn app opens on the wrong display.\nA window refuses to remember its size.\nA network share does not reconnect after sleep.\nA menu command lacks a keyboard shortcut.\nA utility uses 340 MB of memory while allegedly doing nothing.\nA new app is Electron-based, or worse yet, subscription-based.\n\nNone of these problems threatens civilization. Still, each one produces the same response: \"There has to be an app for this.\"\nThere usually is.\nIt costs $7.99 on Gumroad, was made by one person somewhere in Eastern Europe, and has settings for things you did not know macOS could detect.\nJust a Little Too Proud\nEvery hobby has its peacocks, and ours are easy to spot. The menu bar with thirty icons, curated like a trophy shelf. The person who has \"finally settled\" on a text editor for the fourth time this year and announced it in a post. The one who describes their file naming convention with the quiet confidence of someone who has never once found the file they were looking for on the first try.\nI can make these jokes because I am these jokes. My Mac feels broken if certain utilities are missing, and I have absolutely rebuilt a workflow that already worked because a new app looked interesting. The peacocking isn't malice; it's enthusiasm with nowhere to go. The only version that deserves an eye roll is the one aimed downward, at people who just want their computer to work. Those people aren't doing it wrong. They're the control group.\nEnter r/MacApps\n\nThe sub is our natural habitat: developers answering questions in their own threads, lifetime-license hunters comparing notes like coupon clippers, and \"best clipboard manager?\" arriving roughly every eleven minutes and still getting sincere answers. Rarely does anyone get mocked for asking a basic question. The worst outcome is leaving with four new apps you didn't plan to buy.\nThat's the tell. Power users aren't gatekeepers by nature; they're recruiters. Ask one a question about window managers and your real problem becomes ending the conversation. You'll eventually find out that half of the complex setups presented are just hobbies, not necessities. The best Mac setup gets out of your way and lets you work without fighting you; utility count has nothing to do with it. Conversely, there's nothing wrong with tinkering with apps as an enjoyable pastime IF you have the self-awareness to know that is what you are doing. Always remember, the time preparing to work is not actually work. Don't be the guy who, on the clock, builds elaborate macro chains in Keyboard Maestro to rename screenshots, run them through an image optimizer, and archive them by year; only to capture two screenshots a month.\nWannabe power users are welcome here, and if you don't want that label, that's fine. 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","summary":"","url":"https://social.lol/@amerpie/116959425049542683","date_published":"2026-07-21T18:39:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Lou Plummer","url":"https://amerpie.lol","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2025%2F09%2F1544290.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"amerpie"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-21 18:39","date_timestamp":1784659195,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94399420","content_html":"Adam Engst on the latest wealth redistribution from Cupertino, “ Apple is in business to make money, so if licensing costs are threatening the 77% gross margins enjoyed by Services (iCloud, App Store, Music etc.), clearly prices must go up.”
","summary":"","url":"https://social.lol/@amerpie/116958317527501904","date_published":"2026-07-21T13:58:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Lou Plummer","url":"https://amerpie.lol","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2025%2F09%2F1544290.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"amerpie"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-21 13:58","date_timestamp":1784642296,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94367280","content_html":"Today I learned that modern bubble bath stuff is much more potent than it was in the 80s when my kids were little.
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@markstoneman Wonder Woman is the Wordless player here. She got it in three.
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@jtr It has several site wide RSS feeds and each user account has its own feed.
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