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Basic object editing in slicer aka boolean

I often need small adjustments to 3D models I print, and editing them in Blender or FreeCAD feels like overkill. Often it is easier to edit them right in PrusaSlicer (or, I suppose, any other slicer), even though slicers are not really meant for editing. Let's take a tool holder I created (available at https://www.printables.com/model/1001457-modular-tool-holder-strip). I have a hook which I want to add to the strip. I'll take the pliers holder from the picture keep only the base and add the hook in the slicer. [toolhoder we will use in our example]Slicers have the capability to subtract from or add to an object. It works by creating an entity that is a combination of several objects. We can see an example bellow. The entity pliers_holder-changed.stl contains the original pliers_holder.stl and cube. The cube will get subtracted and pliers holder added, that's denoted be the little minus and plus signs....

Taking care of things

In the last few weeks I've been taking care of a lot of things. All personal in nature. Mostly good, but it took time away from what I usually do. This has been necessary to keep going with what I do, and where I want to go, for the foreseeable future. Next week is my birthday... and a significant milestone for me as I worked through things the last few months. There are a great many things happening behind the scenes of everyday life that I don't ever share. An internal retreat, quiet, sitting, thinking. The universe nudging me over the years. So, it's been quiet here and around my projects, even though I've been quietly shipping a lot of things — I even created a new side project to support another. It's been hard to catch up with everything. Keeping changelogs fresh, work on client projects and you name...

📡✨ Relaxing

After a busy and challenging day at the office with Windows, using a Mac at home seems like a vacation, very relaxing.

The harsh reality

Guess what? Blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. You can stop, quit and restart as many times as you like. It's your space, at your own pace. But don't expect results after just one or two posts. I mostly write for myself and an undefined, occasional audience. I don't expect much from blogging. It's a hobby; it's interesting, and it gives me the opportunity to write down my thoughts.

Cache Out - A Privacy Focused Free Tool For Multiple Browsers

Cache Out, a free new single-purpose utility from veteran Mac developer Jim Mitchell, fits right into an app category that is severely underrepresented - utilities that work across multiple browsers from a single interface. What It DoesCache Out's superpower is selective data removal from a variety of popular macOS browsers with the click of a single button. It removes five categories of information - cache, history, downloads, favicons, and cookies. You select the browsers you want cleared from a list. You select the categories of data to remove. Then, you click a single button and BOOM. It's done. After the files are removed, you aren't left in the dark about what happened since you get a report on the number of files and MBs that were removed. There are currently seven supported browsers: • Safari • Chrome • Firefox • Edge • Brave • Opera • Orion I'd like to see...

→ Link 🔗 Scary

Something is going on with AI companies and their opaque financials. I'm not an expert, but something doesn't add up here. https://om.co/2026/05/29/anthropic-ai-and-the-numbers-problem/

📡✨ On Opus 4.8

I see no difference. But who am I to judge?

Just Wondering Around Github, Looking for a Software Fix

The mark of a good Internet citizen is whether they star the GitHub repositories they like and whether they upvote helpful posts on Reddit. As someone who devotes a lot of time to online communities, racking up a few Internet points always feels good. I used to be slightly intimidated by GitHub. For the most part, it's full of indie apps by individual devs, so there isn't a marketing department designing websites and writing copy. It's just the same dude who coded the app you want to try. If you spend time looking around, you find that GitHub also contains plenty of goodies that aren't apps. There are repositories for scripts, app settings, Black Friday deals, and more. I'm not a dev, but even I have a couple of public repos. On one, I share my collection of 800 Keyboard Maestro macros, plus Hazel rules and Better Touch Tool actions....

Why I Replaced Jettison with Ejectify after 15 Years

In trying to be open-minded, I recently agreed to try Ejectify, an app that performs a task for which I already had a solution: to automatically eject external disks from my Mac before it goes to sleep and to remount them when it wakes. I worked off a MacBook for a long, long time, and I needed a way to just shut it, unplug, and move on without getting nagged to death about thumb drives and external volumes. I've been using Jettison to do that since I saw it in Macworld in 2011. The developer, St. Clair Software, also makes Default Folder X, History Hound, and App Tamer. The reason I opted to try Ejectify is that it ticks some boxes that are pretty important in 2026. It's open source and on Github, meaning you can essentially get it for free if you have the chops to build it. You can also see how the developer, Niels...

🍿 Watched Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026) on Prime Video

⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: MILD SPOILERS Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026) brings intense espionage and action as Jack Ryan and his team navigate a deadly covert conflict in a high-stakes battle for global security. My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½ (3.5/5 stars) I agree with the other reviews. I loved the whole cast. John Krasinski does a fantastic job as the lead, and he works well as a replacement for Harrison Ford in this whole new series. The problem was the format: as a movie it felt rushed and the story couldn’t properly develop. This would have benefited from another season or at least a limited one-season run so the characters and plot had time to breathe. The cast gave you everything, they just needed more room to do it. This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb

A Little Lost on a Long Weekend

It’s a holiday weekend for us here in the United States, and I find myself with the Sunday blues, despite not having to goto work tomorrow.  I’ve turned on a dozen different movies and TV shows, but I can’t find anything that appeals to me. Nothing seems to fit the criteria I’m looking for today: I want something that reflects my current mood. My mood isn’t depressed nor anxious, but bleh. I feel nothing, and nothing interests me. I feel like I should be working towards something such as a backlog of books, video games, or movies, but instead I want nothing. Even dumb mindless TV and sports are unfulfilling.  I think what bothers me is that I feel like I’m wasting my extra time. I have all this time to catch up on things, and instead, I want to do nothing. But instead of enjoying the peace and quiet,...

🕖 Now — Started Codex

It's cold and rainy outside, so it seems like a great time to start Codex and the Vibe Code Things 3 replacement (yes, I'm going to drop it when I'm done!). I'm on a one-month free trial, which should be more than enough to achieve my goals: replace Things 3, learn to use Codex, and see how it compares to Claude Code.

🕖 Now — Coffee Shop

I'm currently in a coffee shop, and someone outside, just the other side of the window where I'm sitting, is having a FaceTime call. I'm trying to step back and think about how cool this is, in the context of remembering how I imagined the future while watching space shuttle launches and Cosmos 1999. It still feels magical to me.

→ Link 🔗 On The Reimagined Google Search

Search came to ChatGPT, here, now AI comes to Google Search. I'm not sure that I like Google's take, coupled with ads all over the place, which influence search results, on top of AI's potential hallucinations and shortcuts, how can we trust this? Returning to Kagi. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/#powerful-ai

10 Ways to Get More Out of Apple Shortcuts

I like using Apple Shortcuts when it fits my workflow, but advanced features can be confusing. I manage simple loops and variables, but it’s slow and tricky. That’s why I was happy to see MacStories release Shortcuts Playground, a free plugin for Codex and Claude Code. It lets you describe what you want in natural language and creates a real Apple Shortcut you can use or share. You can read about it and get installation instructions for free if you have those platforms. It’s been years since I updated my list of free and cheap apps that boost Apple Shortcuts, so here’s the 2026 edition. Best Standalone App for Triggers - ShorteryApps like Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, and BetterTouchTool can trigger Shortcuts but take time to learn. Shortery costs $29.99 and is easier to use. Apple also added some automation triggers in macOS: • macOS Shortcuts covers basics • • Apps, Files and folders, Wi‑Fi/Bluetooth,...

Who's the Real Loser?

“Why Gen X is the real loser generation Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s — @daily-reads-TheEconomist on mastodon via Daily Reads” I am a Gen Xer, and I do not consider myself part of a loser generation. I do think my generation came up during a time when the family was under assault from companies, the economy, and a culture that made it harder and harder for one parent to stay home. I know my mother and father resisted that pressure for as long as they could. My mother was a stay-at-home mother for most of my childhood, and I am grateful for that. I also get to spend time with her now in her 70s, and I appreciate every bit of that time. My father worked and was the primary breadwinner for our household. But after I graduated, my parents...

"The failures are the curriculum"

AI equips the layperson to impersonate an expert, producing output that has all the hallmarks of expert judgement—except for the judgement itself. I have several family members in academia, so the phenomenon being discussed in this piece was already familiar to me, but Dr. Karamanis paints an evocative picture of the underlying structural problem. I see a lot of parallels in the tech industry, and I’m trying to quash any nascent tendencies toward this in my own life. Well-meaning workers are trying their best to be useful as they watch their colleagues fall away around them. They’re inheriting roles and responsibilities they may not be qualified for or equipped to do justice to. Thanks to the same AI that’s bedazzled their leaders, these folks can produce the work…but not substantiate it. Unable to understand the model’s output enough to polish it into worthiness, they lean too much on the model’s...

📡✨ Deleted

This morning, after 16 years on Vimeo, I deleted my account because I wasn't using it anymore. Honestly, beyond very niche visual and video domains, I cannot see how someone can expect to thrive on Vimeo these days. YouTube probably killed Vimeo.

Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For

Brett Terpstra has released Marked 3, and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about where a tool actually fits in your workflow. If you write in Markdown on a Mac, there’s a very good chance Marked has been the missing piece all along. For years, I lived in Microsoft Word for anything that wasn’t email. That was the EdTech world: Word was the standard, `.doc` and `.docx` were the expected formats, and no one wanted to hear about alternatives. Never mind the huge app footprint, the licensing mess, the cost, or the absurdity of the entire Office suite when all you really needed was a word processor. And whenever someone in tech tried to suggest something leaner — OpenOffice, Google Docs, anything that didn’t come with Microsoft baggage — the pushback was immediate and emotional. In 2015, we were...

"Technology changes. Human nature does not."

Sahaj Garg, co-founder & CTO of Wispr, recently shared his thoughts on The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After. They’re worth a read. The crisis of meaning he talks about is something that worries me, especially at global scale. Then again, the tendency to associate identity with work is a 20th-century, North American thing. It’s a bubble I’m immersed in, and my creative background doesn’t help. Still, we’re going to see a lot of people with a lot of extra time on their hands. And chances are, I’ll end up among them. What I do definitely falls into the broad category of “cognitive labour”, so I’ve been thinking: what part of that would AI replace? Cognitive labour can be measured in terms of volume (how many projects), or impact (how successful the projects are). Garg’s vision seems rooted in the idea that AI can help a company making...

The Burden of Possessions

There is a Buddhist story about an monk (or an old woman depending you source) that tells a story about being careful what you let into your life: “A monk lived very simply in a small hut with only a robe and a few possessions. One day he discovered that rats were chewing holes in his robe. He went to town and asked the villages for a solution. The villagers said, “You should get a cat.” So the monk got a cat. But the cat needed milk. After several trips to town to get milk for the cat, the monk asked the villages for a solution. The villagers said, “You should get a cow.” So the monk got a cow. But the cow needed care and feeding. Soon the monk was spending much of his day tending the animal instead of meditating. The villagers suggested, “You should hire a field...

今月に入ってからアマゾンプライムのボーイズ、インビンシブル。ネットフリックスのチェスナットマン、地獄に堕ちるわよ。刺激の強い作品を立て続けて観ていた。U-NEXTとディズニープラスはサブスク終了した。いまのところは観たいシリーズもないし。次はネットフリックスの自由研究には向かない殺人のシーズン2を観る予定。配信まで1週間あるけど。それまでマーダーミステリーを読む。人が死ぬ作品ばっかりだな。

いま気づいたけどPLAMO翻訳のサブスクリプションが期限切れになっていた。どのカードで支払うことになっているかわからなかったので一旦終了させたんだっけ。最近は英語のサイトを見なくなったので再開しなくてもいいかもしれない。多少文章的に変なのを我慢したらGoogle翻訳でもいいし。うーんどうしよう。　

📡✨ Auto-completion

IDE brought code auto-completion. AI brings app auto-completion.

Is Anything in Its Prime Right Now?

I've noticed that the TV shows I'm watching the most lately are from the late 90s through 2015-ish. The same goes with video games. Heck, a lot of the new games I play are remasters of games that were made in that era. Recently, I was reading up on the new X-Files TV show, and from what I'm reading, it looks like this will be an eight- or ten-episode series, not a season of twenty or more episodes, which to me defeats the purpose. I like spending time getting to know the characters and experiencing filler episodes, but I guess that is a thing of the past. It got me thinking, is there anything in its prime right now? I look around at video games, television, movies, sports, comic books, and even the internet, and it seems like we are on the tail end of everything great. Is there anything...

Slow Down

This morning, I found myself a little overwhelmed at work. It's been a busy week thus far, and I've noticed the effect its had on me. Yesterday, when I got home from work, I rushed around in a miserable state attempting to complete all of the things I wanted/needed to do. I found no joy in working out, cooking dinner, or even eating dinner. Everything was just a task to complete as soon as possible. Typically, when I find myself in this state, I take ten minutes to meditate. Last night, I did not offer myself that reprieve, and although I found a little stillness as the night wore on, this morning I feel like my stress has multipled as work continued to pile up. If you pay close enough attention, your body will let you know when its being mistreated. Maybe it's an ache in your chest or maybe...

📡✨ Extensions

And just like that, I realized it's easy to build a Chrome extension to serve as a front end for my bookmark manager web app. It's super easy to do... according to Claude AI. Filed in my small projects bin. 💪🏻

🗂️ Microsoft Forms – Admin Guide: Form Ownership Transfer

Source: Microsoft Learn – Admin information for Microsoft Forms 📋 OverviewWhen an employee leaves your organization, their Microsoft Forms don't automatically transfer to someone else. This article explains how administrators can take ownership of those forms using a dedicated delegation URL — and what requirements and limitations apply. 🔐 Who Can Transfer Form Ownership?Only the following roles can perform a form ownership transfer: • ✅ Global Administrator • ✅ Office Application Administrator (with a valid Microsoft Forms license) “⚠️ Regular users and standard admins cannot perform this action.” ✅ Requirements Before You TransferAll of the following conditions must be met before a transfer is possible: # Requirement 1️⃣ You are the Office Application Administrator with a valid Forms license 2️⃣ The employee's account has been deleted or disabled in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) 3️⃣ (If account was deleted) The transfer happens within 30 days of account deletion “💡 Note:...

AI Isn't Black and White

People of all ages and backgrounds come together outdoors, connecting ideas and technology to illuminate the diverse and collaborative nature of AI innovation. Okay, this will probably sound controversial, but that's not my intent. I'm just sharing my thoughts because AI is everywhere right now, especially on social media and in blog posts. These views range from fairly neutral:1 • Manton Reece • Tom Casavant • Paul Thurrott • Richard Campbell To fairly positive, with the idea that you need to learn or use AI because... • Jim Mitchell • Numeric Citizen • Leo Laporte • Hey Loura • Ricardo Mendes To more negative views, often focused on whether AI's value proposition can actually justify the money being spent: • Ed Zitron People tend to frame the debate as two opposing camps: camp 1 wants nothing to do with AI, and camp 2 wants to hand it control over everything....

Analytics dashboard with Tinylytics

If you're using Tinylytics for your blog, Scribbles now surface this data straight in your dashboard. It's all automatic and you don't have to do anything extra — just add your Tinylytics code to your blog, write, gain some visitors and the analytics will flow straight in. It's super simple and it allows you to filter by date, using quick filter, or custom dates. Additionally you can filter by path or country. If you need more, you can head on over to the main Tinylytics dashboard. Whilst Tinylytics is powerful I kept everything minimal for now. If there are requests to bring more data across, let me know and I'll make it happen. With everything enabled, you can also see a small analytics pill on your post edit screen. Clicking on it will show you a proper graph as on the main dashboard. If you have any Kudos, it'll also...

📡✨ Features

Similarly, for Steve Jobs, Dropbox was a feature rather than a full product. That's when Dropbox approached Apple for a buyout. He would probably suggest that AI is also a feature, not a standalone product.

re: Who Knows You Blog

JTR recently shared his thoughts on this question that has been making the rounds over the past few weeks, and I thought I'd share mine. Its complicated when I think about it. I've been blogging for quite some time, and its come up to most of the people in my life that I'm close with (family and a few friends), but its not something that any of them follow. Sure, they've dabble with reading for a few weeks here and there, especially if I've been in a bad place, but I'm almost 100% confident that if you were to ask anyone in my life what my domain name or even blog title, they couldn't tell you. It's not something that gets asked about, and years ago it used to bother me that folks in my real life didn't bother to visit, but those days have long passed. When I'm not...

Airspace: A Polished Fix for a macOS Friction Point

Airspace, an app I downloaded today, has a lot going for it. It removes a classic Apple friction point by letting you name your virtual desktops, customize their appearance, and assign keyboard shortcuts to jump between them. It also helps me illustrate a point. Making a decision about the right price for an app has to be one of the hardest parts of releasing something new. Some of the most versatile and useful apps in the Mac ecosystem are priced absurdly low. I am looking at you, BetterTouchTool. On the other hand, we have all seen apps with plenty of competitors that still carry what I consider an absurdly high price. My favorite example is the clipboard manager, Paste. In reality, every software purchase comes down to what we value. Some people have strict requirements around aesthetics and would rather pay for polish than use something more functional. I think...

A Few Good Things - Vol. 21

Trail Out UpdateA couple of years ago, I wrote about Trail Out, a spiritual successor to Flatout. The game was definitely a lower-budget release, but the gameplay was a lot of fun. I didn't mind the game being so unpolished, but I did grow frustrated as I tried to complete the story mode but fell short due to a lack of races and the expectation of perfection in every race. So, eventually I gave up on it. Well, Trail Out was recently released on PS5 and I guess they made some updates. The game has been cleaned up quite a bit, it looks better and the glitches are gone. It feels more like a proper release and they even added new events to make completion easier. I've put fourteen hours into this game, so I obviously like it, and I'm excited to finish it up. Second Oldest Footage from an...

DockDoor Pro - The Dock Apple Wouldn't Build

When the free app DockDoor was released in 2024, it was the first time I had seen a developer add window previews to the Mac Dock in much the same way that other operating system from Redmond handles them. For kicks, it also included a Windows-style application switcher, also free. I have been updating some older reviews, so I went back to check on DockDoor. Not only does the original free version still exist, but the developer has also added a paid Pro version with a much larger feature set. The splash page for DockDoor Pro puts its claim front and center: DockDoor Pro - The Dock macOS Deserves The official native Mac dock replacement with profiles, live window previews, media controls, a file tray, magnification, and everything Apple left out. That is bold, but defensible. What It DoesThe real question with any Dock utility is whether it replaces the...

📡✨ Trails

I just had a clear idea for my next web application: a site to share, in chronological order, the places visited during a trip. It will be named Numeric Citizen Trails. My next trip is to France in June. I should have enough time to develop this application by then. I can't wait to get started. First step, writing the set of queries for Claude AI. 🗺️

→ Links 🔗 iOS Version Releases History

This website was not functioning or being updated for some time until recently. I'm glad to see it back and active. Although I don't want another beta for iOS 26.6, it seems the trend is unlikely to favor my preference. https://www.thinkybits.com/blog/ios-versions/

Working Through the Uncomfortableness

This past Saturday, I decided to work out for the first time in a year. I haven't been completely sedentary, but I have grown soft and lazy. I jumped back into a workout program, and I took it rather easy. I wanted to slowly wake up my muscles, not destroy them. I knew that if I tried to lift too much, I'd either injure myself, or I'd be so sore I wouldn't want to work out again. So, I worked out smart, and I made sure my first new workout was enjoyable. Despite dialing back the weight, the next morning I woke up and my quads were extremely sore. Not so sore I couldn't walk, but sore enough that the stairs made me mutter cuss words. As I hobbled around all day Sunday, I worried what Monday would bring. I'm always sorest on the second day, and sure enough Monday...

re: radio is cool, actually

Last week, I read a post by Stephen which was a response to gb's post: radio is cool. I recommend you check out both posts, and Stephen's post particularly because he works in the radio industry and obviously has more to say on the subject than I would. However, I wanted to use this post as a jumping-off point for my thoughts on radio. I recently posted that I began listening to the radio again, and it's been a delight. I would say I stopped listening to the radio probably sometime around 2002-2003. I had a six-disc CD changer in my Miata, what did I need the radio for? I loved burning CDs and controlling my own music, so the thought of listening to ads, stupid morning shows, and music I didn't like really turned me off. So, I spent the next twenty years only hearing the radio in the...

Bartender Enters a New Era with Top Shelf

For the past few weeks, I’ve been beta testing a new release of Bartender; an app with an interesting, and at times slightly controversial, history. Despite that, it’s a utility I’ve relied on for years. I recently did a deep dive into the problems macOS changes have created for menu bar managers and what those changes mean going forward. Even with a few lingering issues in the category, I still came away viewing Bartender as the best overall option for serious Mac users. The new release, called Bartender Pro, expands beyond traditional menu bar management with a feature called Top Shelf. The idea is simple: turn the MacBook notch into something genuinely useful instead of leaving it as dead space. The developers are entering an increasingly crowded area occupied by apps like Droppy and DynamicLake Pro, both of which are also trying to claim that piece of Mac interface real estate. Top Shelf supports temporary file storage,...

New Droppy Release is a Full Featured Utility Suite

An update to Droppy by developer Jordy Spruit dropped this weekend. What started as a free notch app has evolved into a paid, but still inexpensive, suite of Mac productivity tools. The licensing recently changed so that Droppy’s one-time payment now gets you a license for two Macs instead of one. The change is retroactive and applies to all users. From now until May 31st, the price is €6.99. After that, it will be €9.99. Both prices include lifetime updates, including major version releases. Droppy is written in native Swift. It’s signed and notarized by Apple, runs on macOS 14 and later, and ships without analytics or third-party trackers. Spruit says, “v14 contains more than 100 user-visible bug fixes and dozens of performance improvements, all driven by feedback from the Discord testers I’ve been working with daily for months.” My Personal Use CasesIn previous versions of Droppy, I’ve used the notch based...