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I stumbled upon this simple AppleScript while looking for something else, but it's incredibly useful for scripting System Settings…so I'm posting it here in case the original site ever goes away. To get the names of all the anchors for a selected pane...

I use Keyboard Maestro a lot—a quick search here reveals how often I write about it, and I use it much more than I write about it. I back up my macros reliably, as part of my overall backup plan. I also sync them between my Macs. And a while back, that...

I ran into this while working on a Keyboard Maestro macro that creates hard links: The macOS version of cp won't create links, at least not in Sonoma. In Ventura, it works even though it throws the same error as it does in Sonoma. Copying as hard links...

I use Terminal a fair bit, for any number of things. But I don't use it all the time, and that means I sometimes struggle to remember syntax of commands. "Was it rsync source destination or the other way around? Or was it ln that was backwards of what...