Display the contents of a text file on a widget. Works best for short texts but also flexible to allow displaying longer text files. This can be used as a lock screen or a home screen widget.

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Bask in 2017, I started using a new Reddit app called Apollo by Christian Selig. It boasts IOS-native UI design languange so it really feels like an app that really belongs to IOS. I have been using it since.

This has become an inspiration of creating a Reddit client of sorts, but not on the same road as Apollo.

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Using Keyboard-Maestro and a little javascript, you can remove tracking tokens from URLs with a keyboard shortcut.

Here’s how.

1. Download the Detracktor macro.
2. Assign yuour shortcut key. I use HyperKey-Z (Control-Option-Command-Shift+Z).

That’s it. Now, everytime you have a URL on the clipboard, press your keyboard shortcut and any tracking tokens on the URL will be removed.

There’s also a Shortcuts version in case you’re interested.

Ever wanted to browse your IOS device’s file system? Now you can! Well, sort of.

When curiosity strikes, I would often find a way to scratch the itch.

Scriptable provides a FileManager class that can list the contents for directories and do some file management functions. It also has methods that provide the internal paths to some default directories - temporary, library, cache, and documents directories. There’s also a bookmarkedPath method to navigate around file and folder bookmarks.

But it make me wonder, what other directories can Scriptable access? Can it access the root / folder perhaps?

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It’s fixed! Finally.

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Welcome to the launch of my new website and my first blog post. I started this as a way to share stuff about iOS Shortcuts, automations, development, and tech in general.

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