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Macdrifter
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Macdrifter is a personal blog at macdrifter.com about productivity and hardware. Since 2011, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Artificial Intelligence, Super Computers, and Society”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- Artificial Intelligence, Super Computers, and Society2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-08
- 3 Backups and 2 Die in the Same Week2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-04
- The Mac Still Feels Like Home2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-25
- The Matias Laptop Pro Keyboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-10
- Editorial for iPad: A Landmark in iOS Text Editors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-15
What Hacker News says?
A subset is available on iOS, including a web/file scraper with full text indexing and search, tags, markdown notes, plus WebDAV sync to other iOS or Mac devices, http://www.macdrifter.com/2016/09/the-all-new-devonthink-to-...
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on “Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub”Submitted Beware Simple Stories as a story · 72 points
HN discussionAmazon's desktop app supports batch uploads and downloads, but not sync to/from Amazon Cloud Drive. However, there are 3rd-party options for this: • Arq: https://www.arqbackup.com/ • odrive: https://www.odrive.com/amazon • Synology Cloud Sync: http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/06/synology-cloud-sync-adds-a...
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on “Amazon Prime Photos”Submitted Avoiding Spam with Email Aliasing as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI think he nailed it when he indicated that the Blog has done a great job of replacing magazines. I used to be a huge newspaper/magazine junkie - I haven't purchased a physical instance in 4+ years. What has replaced it: o xkcd o wsj.com o nyt.com o HN o daring fireball o theverge o Yahoo Finance (Stock Portfolio) o macrumors/appleinsider/loopinsight o asymco And, somewhat less often: o Techcrunch o parislemon o dpr…
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on “It’s Not the File Size That’s Killing iPad Magazines”Submitted iOS 8’s New Key Logger as a story · 11 points
HN discussionA couple of reviews from folks who have been beta testing for months: http://www.macstories.net/stories/editorial-for-ipad-review/ http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/08/editorial-for-ipad-a-landm...
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on “iPad Text Editor with Python Embedded for Automation”Submitted Fighting the Insomnia Machine as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLeaving 'View → Organize by Thread ⇧⌘T' checked and switching to 'View → Layout → Thread Arcs ⌘3' isn’t what you’re looking for? Shown here: http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/11/mailmate-explorations.html
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on “Mail Pilot 2 for Mac”Submitted The Mac Still Feels Like Home as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI agree that for the past 8 years or so the community aspect of BBEdit has been in a coma. The email lists use to be very active years ago. However, in the last year that has begun to change. TidBITS recently released "Take Control of BBEdit". There is increased activity on GitHub. And number of new blogs are talking about BBEdit. http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/bbedit https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&q=bbedit&type=…
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on “Macintosh Text Editor BBEdit Turns 20”Submitted Artificial Intelligence, Super Computers, and Society as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey use a URL Scheme to check for the existence of previous versions on the device, and depending on the result, offer one of three in-app purchase prices for the same result: activating the new version. See also http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/10/an-interesting-ios-app-sto...
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on “An Example of Upgrade Pricing for iOS”Submitted The LinkedIn Garbage Fire That Funded Podcasting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mac Still Feels Like Home as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Feed Reader Reviews: Six Months Later as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Matias Laptop Pro Keyboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New iMac Pro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Get What You Get as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New MindNode 5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Backups and 2 Die in the Same Week as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Backups and 2 Die in the Same Week as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the Apple Pencil Does Well as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Faint Praise of Voice Assistance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interesting iOS App Store Upgrade Example as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Best Camera Is The One You Have as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Office I Never Knew I Wanted as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Types of Blogs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Misery Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Notes on an iPad with LiquidText as a story · 1 points
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