ScottWillsey

Apparently a bunch of people on Hacker News think my post about vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps was itself vibe-coded.

Lately, I’ve heard several Apple related podcasters talk about how bad Xcode is, and how Apple needs to make vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps better by making Xcode less inscrutable.

In case my announcement of my MikanRemote utility app for Mac wasn’t exciting enough, I’ve added yet another screen – the utilities screen.

The problem I often exercise on a stationary bike a few feet from my MacBook Pro connected to a Studio Display.

In the past I wrote about full-text RSS in Astro, and using sanitize-html on the blog post content to escape and filter html tags.

I clearly need a change in 2026.

I guess it’s that time of year again.

Look, a new face!

Contents The Goal – Replacing Raycast with Spotlight and Companion Utilities Raycast Snippets Snippety for Mac and iOS Basic UI Snippet Use Scripts Conclusion The Goal – Replacing Raycast with Spotlight and Companion Utilities In Part 1 of this series on…

Contents The Goal – Replacing Raycast with Spotlight and Companion Utilities Raycast AI Models Integration Extensions and MCP Caveats Non-Raycast AI Options The Future Conclusion Additional Reading The Goal – Replacing Raycast with Spotlight and Companion…

Spotlight Is Not Dead, It Was Just Resting For years, Spotlight on the Mac has been a bare-bones app launcher and search utility.

I’m not dead yet, I’m just resting!

I made a change yesterday to my /now page to make the Podcasts section look nicer by including podcast artwork next to the episode entries.

Here’s a use case for AI that I really like: a Japanese to English translator that gives me a translation and breakdown of the kanji (Chinese characters) in a Japanese phrase or passage.

I’ve written about my review automation workflow in some detail, and while I personally find it fascinating, really the point is the reviews themselves.

When I added a Reviews page, I wanted to be able to have individual reviews show up in my site search.

I’ve spoken a couple times about my Sessions Raycast script command, both when I originally set it up, and then again when I updated it to use Moom as my window manager.

Last week or so, I started writing a blog post as I sometimes do, this one pertaining to my Automation Workflow for Media Reviews.

Contents Updating the Look of My /now Page Automating Quick Reviews Step 1: Quick Reviews Step 2: Hazel Step 3: Retrobatch Step 4: Python Script Python Script Part 1: Create Markdown Links Python Script Part 2: Archive All Images in the Retrobatch Input F…

You may have noticed that the site menu has a couple new icons in it.

I like to highlight different cool or interesting sites by featuring them in my Cool Site Spotlight on my links page.

Recently I needed to work on some script files on a server and wanted to edit them in Visual Studio Code.

Raycast Floating Notes started off as a very simple text window you could dump stuff into.

There is a fascinating LLM CLI tool called aichat that lets you use all kinds of LLM models in the command line, including REPL mode, RAG mode (feeding it your documents and files of choice to use as a knowledgebase), and much more.

Once upon a time,[1] the Hemispheric Views podcast held the first ever Duel of the Defaults in which they decided who was the winner at using the most default apps for several categories.

Long-time Mac users will undoubtedly have heard of BBEdit.

Astro 5 is out, and it has a number of changes from Astro 4.

Contents GitHub Deploy Keys Create the Deploy Keys Add the Public Keys to the GitHub Repositories Assign the Correct Keys to the Correct Repositories GitHub Deploy Keys Sometimes I want to be able to pull a personal GitHub repository onto a server in order

Last night I mentioned setting up SuperDuper!

I’ve certainly used drive cloning software in the past, including SuperDuper!.

You all know, I hope, that I have a /now page on this site for quick dumps of things I’m into at the moment.

As I mentioned previously, I have a Weekly Reads page that I set up to make it easier for me to share articles with my dad and brother (and anyone else who cares), complete with RSS feed.

Introductionum Recently Niléane of MacStories wrote about the Raycast extensions she uses in Adding to My Mac’s Swiss Army Knife: A Raycast Extension Roundup - MacStories.

My brother likes to send emails to dad and I containing links of interesting things he’s read recently, replete with commentary of his own.

As you may know, I created a Raycast script command to trigger what I call “sessions”, which are really just setting up the Mac to perform different tasks, such as podcasting or “normal” general use.

You may have noticed, as you’ve wandered the site, that I’m a bit of a Raycast fan.

This is not a normal topic for me on this site, but since I blather on about technology nonstop and make my living thanks to it, it’s important to highlight the very real downsides it brings.

In the past, I used a menubar utility called Bunch to start and stop my podcast session setup.

As you know, I have a /now page that I update on occasion to let anyone who cares know what kinds of things I’m watching, reading, and eating at some random point in my life.

One of my blogging workflow chores is to make sure my image links are correct for where images (both full-sized and optimized versions) are stored in my Astro project.

Contents Astro Remark Support Social Links in Blog Posts Transforming Social Media Links in Astro Markdown files Regular Expressions for YouTube, Threads, and Mastodon Links How Remark Plugins Work in Astro Creating a Remark Plugin in Astro Remarking Mark…

This morning as I was going through my blogroll waiting for my double-height cup of coffee to kick in, I came across Cole’s post about the obvious rewards, or lack thereof, of blogging (or any content creation, really), and it resonated with me.

You may have noticed that today marks a redesign that I hope brings a cleaner, sleeker, easier to read format to the site.

Threads generally makes me sad by being social media, so I don’t look at it often.

I wrote about OCR in CleanShot X in my last post, and my friend David Nelson reminded me of another stellar feature of CleanShot X – scrolling screenshots.

I love this modern era of computing, and do you know why?

I’ve finally had a chance to play with the ChatGPT macOS app[1] and I’m here to say it doesn’t swing the uppercut required to get me to stop paying for Raycast Advanced AI.

Mac display settings are weird.

Mario Guzmán has made some beautiful apps in his time, and QuickTune tops the list in my opinion.

Marc Magnin brought up a point I hadn’t considered when I asked if ChatGPT desktop app might Sherlock Raycast Advanced AI for me – Raycast AI Commands.