Tag: Nerdy Stuff
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Announcing WalkUp DJ
WalkUp DJ is now available on the App Store. It’s a walk-up music app for baseball and softball teams. Create your roster, assign each player a song, and play their entrance music with a single tap during games. Download WalkUp DJ → Features Apple Music Integration — Search millions of songs, preview before you pick,…
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I’m Shipping Like I Have a Team (I Don’t)
There’s this meme about a kid who got an angle grinder and it “changed his life” — the joke being he’s now cutting catalytic converters off cars. Dark humor aside, there’s a kernel of truth there: the right tool at the right time can completely change your trajectory. For me, that tool was Claude with…
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Today Comes to the Mac
When I launched Today on iOS last October, it was born out of that same Google Reader-shaped hole that never quite healed. A few months later, I kept finding myself reaching for it on my Mac — opening feeds on my phone while sitting in front of a perfectly good laptop. So I did something…
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ScriptStrip: A Simple Transcription App for macOS
I created ScriptStrip, a simple Mac app that allows users to transcribe audio or video files by dragging and dropping them into the interface. It processes everything locally using Apple’s speech recognition, ensuring privacy. The app features automatic formatting, timestamps, and searchable transcripts, avoiding the need for cloud services or complex workflows.
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Introducing Jewel Case: Spotify Album Art for Your Mac Desktop
Remember when music was physical? You’d flip through a stack of CDs, admiring the album art before deciding what to spin. The jewel case was part of the experience—the artwork set the mood before the first note played. Streaming killed that ritual. Spotify buried album art behind tiny thumbnails, and unless you’re staring at your…
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Celluloid: A Virtual Camera App for macOS
I’ve had a Logitech C920 webcam for years. It’s a solid camera, but I’ve always hated its color grading — it pushes everything red, making me look perpetually sunburned on video calls. Zoom has a “Touch up my appearance” filter that helped a bit, but most of my calls happen in Google Meet, which doesn’t…
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Building a Credits Generator for My Daughter’s School Play
When my daughter’s school was putting on a production of Romeo and Juliet, I wanted to create scrolling credits for the livestream. What started as a simple HTML file turned into a full-featured web app that anyone can use. The Problem I needed a way to display professional-looking credits during the stream – cast, crew,…
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Building the Movie & Actor Matcher I Always Wanted
For years, I’ve had those moments watching a movie where I’d think “wait, didn’t these two actors work together in something else?” or “I wonder what movies both Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks appeared in together.” Sure, you could dig through IMDb for each actor individually, but there was never a simple tool to just……
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Saul Williams Album Available
Free or five bucks, you make the call. More here. Is there a revolution underway?