your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

I stopped using instapaper for Pocket after instapaper stopped working well. Pocket is way better.

I use reeder on my phone but find Feedbin so good that I just do all my feed reading via browser.

instapaper works now, fwiw

i tried pocket for a few months during the great data protection fail that felled instapaper but several times it grabbed just the first few grafs of a story, which was just enraging

I didn't like it as much but w/ both apps I usually just link to the original anyway. Pockets saving and integration with other things and everything is good. At first I hated it, but now I don't regret dropping instapaper.

But if people haven't tried Feedbin, it's killer. It syncs with Reeder so I use Reeder on the iphone. If Feedbin made a native app it'd own.

Pretty happy with Inoreader. Their native app is pretty good but I’ll always stick with Reeder. The only feature I’ve ever missed is the ability to sync unread items beyond one month (but I guess the problem is with the aggregator not the reader)

Just as another data point (I may have mentioned this elsewhere), but when Reeder was languishing I switched to News Explorer and haven't switched back.
https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html

Does that have a central backend or does it poll each RSS feed individually and locally? Because that's the old NNW model and I never want to return to that

still v happy with bazqux for all my feed management (with reeder for phone) tho i like the reeder 4 beta.

I'm still on the hunt for the perfect solution for news/feed-reading. Fear my preferred method isn't available yet. I had to google "bazqux" after you namedropped it just now, Fizzles. It did not disappoint tbh:

Not free, not freemium

Being paid service reader updates feeds of paying and trial users only. It doesn’t get rate limited by site owners for fetching millions of free users feeds and updates your feeds in time. It designed for the needs of paying clients not for the nice screenshots and reviews. And you get real customer support here.

And we all know—free readers close.

I was gonna say that newsreader app reminds me of NetNewsWire... which apparently went back to the original developer last year and will be open source and free again?? What a world.

Baxqux is the business. And is like Pinboard in being happy with what it is, too

Does that have a central backend or does it poll each RSS feed individually and locally? Because that's the old NNW model and I never want to return to that

It's using iCloud for syncing and polling individually. Bazqux was never able to process a password-protected feed for me, which meant that I had to put those in Vienna - anyway, once News Explorer settled down it works great and syncs with my phone. Few apps support password-protected feeds, but it's a 100% must need for me.

are there any websites that observe dark mode settings in line with the 10.14.4 update?

oh i guess this guy's does it, not that you're gonna wanna be looking at his website a lot

https://kevinchen.co/blog/support-macos-mojave-dark-mode-on-websites/

Guys help me!

I used to have a hj that added the URL of a downloaded file (usually an image) automatically to its COMMENTS - visible when you "get info" and turns up in Spotlight search obv

does this ring a bell for you guys? does this still exist??

This works by default in Chrome and Safari, you get a "Where From" in the Info window. But testing now it only seems to be certain file types, like DMGs, and not images etc. I wonder if they've changed that, istr it worked in the past.

tracer you're not seriously trying to pass hj off as the abbreviation for hoonja-doonja

what would your mother think

the 'where from' url is part of the file's metadata, so anything that chooses to write that to that will do the same. i looked at my downloads and found that firefox also will, even for videos yoinked with a downloader extension, which is kind of lol because the url it records is from the underlying cdn rather than the meaningful-to-me page source, and does not seem like all that stable a thing

far as i can see images get tagged too

funny that when you print a web page to pdf it doesn't record the url since the file is not 'downloaded', but since the content is 'printed' it gets a copy of the url at the bottom of every page (if your print settings are still set that way)

lol i had a feeling i might get called out for "hj"

bah i use opera

i noticed the hj, and i have to say...i liked it

:-o

Who doesn’t like a good hj I ask you

you people are sickening

hj? fp

I have a large list of people and their various availabilities. I want some software to reconcile this list into 3/4 dates where various meetings can be held. I’d need to tell it what people are needed at which meeting because there will be some crossover

are there any hoonja doonjas for this

i wish there were trackpad gestures for a) hiding an app (not minimizing, command-H hiding) and b) opening a new finder window upon switching to the desktop

I really want to meet someone who's a true trackpad gesture wizard - five-finger expand, the works - and find out what exactly what they're using Mission Control for.

xp bettertouchtool is worth every penny

oh, what you'd expect. seeing all the windows when there are lots of them. and occasionally i guess it technically shows up when i'm dragging a window up to the spaces bar, although i mostly just leave two spaces open, plus the dashboard space, and side-swipe between them, without ever needing to move the windows that i permanently keep in them.

now expose, the three-finger downward swipe, for only the front app's open windows, is the one i never use. i guess for some things it might be marginally more useful - some apps like vlc show open windows and also a row of recent files opened, which would be there even without open windows.

xp hm that's pretty good. once annoyance of setting up a 'hide' gesture is that you then prevent the mission control gesture from helping you get back from it, since mission control shows visible, not hidden, windows. i made a different gesture to bring up the command-tab application switcher, but that's not quite the same. not as fluid.

i find keyboard shortcuts faster because you don't have to move as far. the two gestures i use are exceptions where that's not true. one hot corner is lock screen which i most often want to do when i'm already standing/walking away from my desk, so just throwing the pointer to the corner is easier than a kb shortcut. another hot corner is show desktop which i most often do when i'm already dragging a file.

so you can already see some files but not others and you pop over to a corner onto the way to wherever the destination has been hiding?

i have always been a big application hider, with the keyboard or by option-clicking, but when i'm not actively using the keyboard for much, the surplus of ways to navigate in and between my usual applications with gestures, and less clicking than there used to be, makes the need to use a keyboard shortcut to hide stick out. really even having to mouse over to the dock to bring a hidden app back to the front demands excessive precision, by comparison (maybe a sign that i should dial up the magnification or something).

maybe i can rig up a bring-last-front-app-to-front gesture, i haven't played much with the BTT settings yet

cmd-tab brings a hidden application back fwiw.

the show desktop hot corner is useful when i'm dragging a file from somewhere and i want to dump it on the desktop (or i want to drag a file from the desktop), but the desktop is covered with other apps and obscured. that's pretty much the only use case for me.

haha oh dur right so i can use BTT to send a keyboard command

ah, i used to have files all over and care about actual drop locations on the desktop, but now i barely keep anything there and use stacks anyway

btw IINA is the best general purpose media player on the Mac currently, suitable replacement for NicePlayer

https://iina.io

what's the catch

it crashes sometimes if you click too much but it's getting better I think

also the default setting when you open a file from the filesystem is to add all the other media from that folder to the playlist, but you can turn that off

i dunno man doesn't sound like a sweet deal, might stick with my combo of vlc and quicktime player

RIP

what can i say i love 2 click

I was being a bit glib, I think the crashes I occasionally get are more likely from trying to open streams and something being buggy. Anyway it's good

looks like a cool vlc alternative

I think I'm nearly sold on plex as my "media I own" manager :/

Don’t have a reason to switch from vlc, not sure what more I need in a media player than to just play everything that I throw at it, which it does.

Thinking about plex and a new Mac mini

Whenever the urge for new hardware comes along, my motto is “do it”

I have a few hard drives of accumulated music going back a few years. Any tips for a mac application that will delve into the folders and subfolders and just list out all the files?

you should be able to just do that with finder, searching ".mp3" (or whatever else), right?

in the terminal:

find path/to/music/folder -type f

Yeah zs that was what I thought at first! Then just export the filenames from finder to text/csv?

I tried your route silby but I'm not very literate with terminal so i don't know how to find 'my big fat drive' but thank you.

yeah, it's even easier than that! you can just command+A to select all the search results, than paste it into textedit, excel, whatever

before the command silby gave you do

cd /Volumes/my\ big\ fat\ drive

and then just give the path in silby's command relative to the folder structure of the drive (say, if there were a folder called 'music' containing everything you wanted to search, you'd just type 'music' at the place where silby specified a path). you can actually do it all at once in one big path once you know the path.