42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh - E-book - ePub

Forty-two astoundingly useful scripts and automations for your Macintosh. Work faster and more reliably. Use Perl, Python, AppleScript, Swift, and Automator to automate the drudgery of computer use. Work on the command line, add actions to the services menu and the menu bar, and create drag-and-drop apps. Create ASCII art and music, build talking alarms, and roll dice. Play your music backward. Preflight your social media comments.
Display your to-do list on your desktop. And of course, manage your favorite recipes. That's what computers are for. Get your retro on and bring your Macintosh into the world we were promised, a world of personal computers, where your computer is yours to control. You have the technology. You have the source code. The era of the home computer awaits.