Everyone’s into AI feeds in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m here polishing my RSS feed with XSLT. 😂
(Also because I’m a reader of Jamie Zawinski’s blog.)

<https:www.cedricbonhomme.org/2025/08/18/rss-xslt-styling/>

[#rss](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rss) [#atom](https://fosstodon.org/tags/atom) [#newsreader](https://fosstodon.org/tags/newsreader) [#web](https://fosstodon.org/tags/web) [#xslt](https://fosstodon.org/tags/xslt) [#indieweb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb)

Python app to work with pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos library, pictures, and metadata.

OSXPhotos provides the ability to interact with and query Apple's Photos.app library on macOS and Linux. You can query the Photos library database — for example, file name, file path, and metadata such as keywords/tags, persons/faces, albums, etc. You can also easily export both the original and edited photos. OSXPhotos also works with iPhoto libraries, though some features are available only for Photos.

- A command-line tool to download all your iCloud photos.
- Works on Linux, Windows, and macOS; laptop, desktop, and NAS
- Available as an executable for direct downloading and through package managers/ecosystems (Docker, PyPI, AUR, npm)
- Developed and maintained by volunteers (we are always looking for help).

Parachute is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—to your own storage, giving you peace of mind and full control.

1-Click Photo Library Backup

Back up your entire photo library to any storage location, including external drives and network locations like NAS devices. Supports iCloud and all media types such as videos, live photos, portraits, slo-mo, and more and preserves all non-destructive edits, albums, locations, and timestamps . Backups can be restored directly into a photo library while maintaining all metadata.

Monsters invaded your base, do you have enough time to guard it?

Save Safari website as PDF (with syncing cookies).

Swift script

Act on your Finder files with natural language, with this unique command bar.

Convert, organize and more: control your Mac and its files with natural language.

Just drop sakura.css into any webpage and go from an ugly-looking 1900s website to a pretty, modern website in literally 0 seconds.

It’s easy to customize and build on top of sakura.

Sakura supports extremely easy theming using variables for duotone color scheming. It comes with several existing themes, which can be found in the css folder of this repository.

A syntax-aware git merge driver for a growing collection of programming languages and file formats.

The Bookmark Everything app. Hoard links, notes, and images and they will get automatically tagged AI.

Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!

dessine-moi les personnages de l’histoire dit le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Richard Berner, UK-based illustrator
[#drawing](https://h4.io/tags/drawing) [#art](https://h4.io/tags/art) [#history](https://h4.io/tags/history) [#illustration](https://h4.io/tags/illustration)

I just released v2 of Toney, A TUI Note-taking app for the terminal.

<https:github.com/SourcewareLab/Toney>
<https:sourcewarelab.github.io/Toney/>

PS: Actively looking for contributors! It would be great if you could star the repo, I am a student and it really helps applications. Thanks!

[#OpenSource](https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource) [#productivity](https://mastodon.social/tags/productivity) [#terminal](https://mastodon.social/tags/terminal) [#development](https://mastodon.social/tags/development) [#developers](https://mastodon.social/tags/developers) [#neovim](https://mastodon.social/tags/neovim)

<https:ansi.tools/> looks pretty useful

TIL about caligula, a CLI disk burning tool that automates away some of the usual steps you might take when using dd for the same task.

<https:github.com/ifd3f/caligula>

/via <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BxIpVk_xZI>

[#Rust](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Rust) [#Linux](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Linux)

if you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:

Once again, dealing with email shenanigans and bumped into this, which someone put a lot of time into…

<https:www.learndmarc.com>

Last month I walked across Spain.
Here are some reflections from the experience.

<https:matthewrocklin.com/camino.html>

There goes my day: <https://isle.pizza>

[#legoisland](https://mastodon.social/tags/legoisland)

I've spent the day trying out [@steveklabnik.com](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com)'s [#jujutsu](https://wandering.shop/tags/jujutsu) tutorial, and as a forcing function I'm trying it out on a couple of my own repos.

I'm very used to the [#magit](https://wandering.shop/tags/magit) workflow in [#emacs](https://wandering.shop/tags/emacs) and I don't know how much I'm gonna like moving over to a full TUI for version control. So far, I feel like a rank newbie again, which is strange given how relatively expert I think I've become with git.

Do you worry about the effectiveness of your writing style? As emerging scholars, perfecting the craft of writing is an essential component of developing as graduate students, and yet resources for honing these skills are largely under utilized. Larry McEnerney, Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program, led this session in an effort to communicate helpful rules, skills, and resources that are available to graduate students interested in further developing their writing style.

This app is the spiritual successor to iTunes Volume Control, offering a simple yet powerful way to adjust volume for your favorite music apps directly from your keyboard — especially when listening via AirPlay or external speakers.

Due to macOS security restrictions, the app is not signed with an official Apple Developer certificate. Please follow the installation instructions below.

I've been using the [#HelixEditor](https://hachyderm.io/tags/HelixEditor) as my daily driver for the better part of a year now and I couldn't be more happy with it. I've managed to get a near-IDE setup and experience thanks to zellij and some awesome TUI tools.
This article aligns well with my experience, I recommend reading it if you're "modal editor curious" or dissatisfied with your (neo)vim config maintenance burden.

<https:herecomesthemoon.net/2025/06/i-like-helix/>

[#helix](https://hachyderm.io/tags/helix) [#modaleditor](https://hachyderm.io/tags/modaleditor) [#vim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/vim) [#neovim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/neovim)

- pleasing to the eye thanks to a nice table view
- filterable and sortable output
- interactive killing of processes
- JSON and custom formattable output
- from netstat -tulpn to somo -l
- you can find all features further down

A fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

You can play Tux Racer directly in your browser here: Play TuxRacer.JS

IMAPdedup is a command-line utility that looks for duplicate messages in a set of IMAP mailboxes and tidies up all but the first copy of any duplicates found.

To be more exact, it marks the second and later occurrences of a message as 'deleted' on the server. Exactly what that does in your environment will depend on your mail server and your mail client.

Some mail clients will let you still view such messages in situ, so you can take a look at what's happened before 'compacting' the mailbox. Sometimes deleted messages appear in a 'Trash' folder. Sometimes they are hidden and can be displayed and un-deleted if wanted, until they are purged.

Whatever your system does, you will usually have the option to see what has been deleted, and to recover it if needed, using your email program, after running this script. (If your server purges the deleted messages automatically, you may be able to prevent this with the --no-close option.) There is also a 'dry-run' option, so you can check what might happen before doing anything scary.

What stood out above all else was Yap’s speed. By harnessing SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber on-device, the command line tool tore through the 7GB video file a full 55% faster than MacWhisper’s Large V3 Turbo model, with no noticeable difference in transcription quality.

A reddit thread with a list of Fish plugins people are using

Here’s Bill Atkinson (and rest of team) answering questions right after the Macintosh was debuted at the Boston Computer Society in 1984: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ5XwvjPmA> starting at 28:25 - he demos MacPaint and more. May his memory be a blessing!

Edit web browser text areas in Helix!

GhostText is a browser extension that lets you edit textarea content in your favorite editor instead of in the browser. This is good if, for example, you like the way your editor highlights and lints your code. Or maybe you like the way your editor spellchecks your markdown. I just like the simplicity of Helix and look for more places to use it, in general.

There are GhostText clients for lots of editors out there, but there wasn't one for Helix. So I made this one. Since Helix doesn't have a plug-in system, scripting, etc., this was a little tricky. And the result is more basic than some of the other, more complex editor plug-ins for GhostText. This tracks with how Helix's simplicity demands that you think simpler, which is the main thing I like about it. Because this client was designed to be simple, it should work equally well with other editors (vim, nano, micro, whatever).

Feedlynx helps you collect links to read or watch later. It generates an RSS feed of the links you collect.

How exactly does sakura help you?
- Just drop it in, even on existing HTML content, to get a pretty-looking website (everything “just works”)
- Quick prototyping, especially when working on backend sites and can’t yet be bothered to fidget with CSS/HTML
- Building a quick (but pretty) site/blog for your best friend or aunt!
- No need to remember tons of different class names for every other CSS framework
- Works amazingly with markdown-generated HTML pages (eliminates the need for hacks like including .img img-responsive in <img></img> tags generated from markdown-parser
- Wonderful for people who aren’t really good or interested in design as sakura is nothing but a set of reasonable defaults

This is just brilliant :bunhdaww:

Koji Kobura remakes GoldenEye with a K.O. II 64 MB Sampler Composer

A macOS app that enhances control over Elgato lights, offering features beyond the standard Elgato Control Center software.

Features

• Automatically turn lights on and off based on camera activity

• Turn lights off when locking your Mac

• Global keyboard shortcuts

Got some strange editorial choices for illustrative photos for my prompt "Provide a vegetarian recipe for butter chicken but with chickpeas not chicken and include many inline illustrations along the way"

OK, at long last, the story of how I once got an email from Steve Jobs saying ‘Great idea, thank you.’

<https:blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html>

20 years ago, in college, I worked at the uni library's special collections department. One of the things we would do was check leather-bound books for 'red rot', which is when the tanning of the leather starts to fail, and the leather starts crumbling to produce this really characteristic red dust. It's treated with a product called cellugel.

I told my parents about this cool job.

'Oh,' they said, 'can you do something about this old book from your great-grandmother's collection?'

My favorite local model right now is a bit of surprise to me: I'm really enjoying the relatively tiny Qwen3-8B, running the 4bit quantized version on my Mac using MLX

It's surprisingly capable given it's a 4.3GB download and uses just 4-5GB of RAM while it's running

<https:simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/>

A project I have been working on got its official release today.

Space images are pretty, but would you like to know what the important features are, and the science behind their appearance? ViewSpace Interactive Image Tours take you on a guided exploration of astronomical images.

Designed to be used on touch screens in museums and science centers, they are also fun to explore on your own. They work best on tablets or computers (devices bigger than a phone).

<https:www.universe-of-learning.org/contents/news/traverse-across-space-with-the-interactive-image-tours>

[#Space](https://astrodon.social/tags/Space) [#Astronomy](https://astrodon.social/tags/Astronomy) [#Astrodon](https://astrodon.social/tags/Astrodon)

[@paul](https://tapbots.social/@paul) Yeah but it’s no duck bill <https://a.co/d/bSCywyL>