Hello! Great to have you here.
I’m using Velja from Sindre Sorhus, mostly as a stumble-upon when they released ‘Quick-GPT’ when attention to that technology had its moment. I’m interested in using profiles for Safari - but haven’t read up on it to date.
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I’m a Choosy user who tried out Veija, but didn’t find it compelling enough to switch. There’s definitely a place for that kind of thing, though. Honestly, I’ve tried a few and Choosy has always been the one I preferred…
It’s hard to think what would get me to switch from Choosy. I mean, I can imagine it happening – but I can’t imagine what additional features or better implementation I might want enough to do it. Choosy just works for me.
Hello! I’m Alan, and I like to joke that I was online back when the Internet was steam-powered. 
Only a slight exaggeration, as those of you who remember dial-up speeds in the 80s (and the associated bills) will know. 
I was a Windows user from 1992 to 2012, and have been a Mac user since 2012. I don’t have any great love for either platform these days, however — they both suck, just in differing ways. 
I’ve done software development (Turbo Pascal, Delphi), graphic design (CorelDRAW, Illustrator), web design (Dreamweaver, Fireworks (RIP)), lots of CD/DVD authoring (Final Cut Studio), and a lot of tech support and sysadmin duties over the years. 
I belatedly got a formal autism spectrum diagnosis last year, something I’ve struggled with for several decades. 
My experience has made me appreciative of accessibility technology and tools, both hardware and software, but also critical where accessibility is an afterthought or not considered at all. 
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Hey all,
My name’s Rob. I write and for some years I have been looking into possibilities for collaborative writing using Git and the like. I’m ADHD as hell, have had a rather chaotic life with too few spoons and too little bandwidth, let alone consistently, and am, I suppose more into exploration than completion, so I would certainly need collaborators to make anything of such a thing… Still, I have it all mapped out for what that’s worth…
I am into text and dislike visual busy-ness so I use GUIX with exwm (a windows manager within Emacs) as a writing computer, though I often write off-line on a typewriter made in the 1950s and am increasingly using a Leuchtturm notebook.
I otherwise use Debian with i3 and, increasingly EXWM as well… I use org-more for everything, including blog posts, when I get around to completing them, which is scarcely ever.
I am provisionally interested in Write Freely (hosted one for a while) and Pixelfed, but decreasingly think that open-as-standard protocols such as activitypub are the way forward.
I welcome questions etc., and will likely reply if I set up email notifications right but I’m not certain how often I’ll log in without them - I have many different modes and tend to fall out of habits good and bad…
I write long… Apologies, but it likely won’t change…
I am #autistic and have #ADHD
peace out,
Rob
I was kind of hoping that’s precisely what it was… 
Hello there, I’m Jean-François, (or J.F. for short). I was born and raised in Montréal, Québec. I now live in Las Vegas, Nevada— home of the current Stanley Cup champions! — with my family and pets.
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What’s your most elaborate automation
Mmm…that changes, but in my work as content editor, I created a KM macro that automates the adding of graphical chapter markers in ScreenFlow, an app I use almost every day, and that macro saves me a ton of time. -
What’s your favorite TextExpander snippet?
I’ve become a fan of groups with meaningful prefixes, so my applications group (with prefix “a.”) is one that I use a lot, and that takes care of writing an app’s name with the correct capitalisation, e.g. ScreenFlow or Goodnotes (yeah, the new version dropped the CamelCasing…) — it may seem dumb, but man, saves me a lot of time, and ensures I don’t make branding mistakes when copyediting articles. -
What do you do in your free time?
Playing music on bass guitar, piano, guitar, mandolin; mixing and mastering music projects, and tweaking my apps and systems. Playing pool with my son, happy hour with my daughter, watching fun shows with my spouse, like Lessons in Chemistry and The Sopranos which can be wonderful and infuriating in the same episode. -
How’s the weather where you live?
It’s sunny most of the time, temps are crazy in the summer (40º C plus for weeks on end…but you get used to it, and at least it’s dry heat) and more temperate this time of year (12-20º), and single digits in the winter months. Snow is rare, but it happens.
That’s all for now! It’s nice to meet you.
Hey J.F., great to see you here!
I would love to see this automation, have you shared it?
I use snippets like this all the time. For me it’s the same thing as common spelling corrections. I feel really dumb when I mis-case an app or company name in a public setting 
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I LOVE Lessons in Chemistry. I’ve never even tried The Sopranos, though based on what I’ve heard, I really should go down that rabbit hole.
I have developed entire collaborative writing pipelines using GitHub Pull Requests and Jekyll rendering of Markdown. It’s amazing for tracking who makes what changes, reviewing other writer’s work, and having an audit trail for a piece. I think it should be mainstreamed.
There was an app a while back that used Git bundles to store versions of any document you worked on in any app and be able to show you diffs of your progress independent of writing app. It was pretty cool, but did nothing for collaboration. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of it, but it was pulled from sale a year or two ago, so probably not worth tracking down.
Can you outline how you use git for collaborative writing? I don’t so much mean the Jekyll part, but what would a series of collaborative contributions, edits and associated git commands look like?
I use git some with code, and I write, but I have a hard time imagining how the two would go together.
Hi everyone
I’m Greg an overweight, middle aged London Taxi driver - probably not the usual demographic for a forum like this!!
I first got to know of Brett when he appeared on an early episode of Mac Power Users. I then found his Systematic podcast.
On 4th September 2012, Episode 8 with Brett Kelly, they took the time to answer a question about where a child should start programming, which my son Oliver, then aged 8, and I had sent in to the show.
I’ll never forgot the look of amazement on my kid’s face as he was name checked and his question was answered. As I recently told Brett, that totally inspired Oliver and fast forward to 2023 and he is now in his second year working as a software developer in London UK!!
I meanwhile own the full suite of tech nerd software (Hazel, Moom, Marked 2, Keyboard Maestro, Obsidian, TextExpander etc - and far too many MacSparky Field Guides). I barely scratch the surface of the power of these apps, but I enjoy learning about and using them.
That about covers it.
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That is fantastic! I’ve heard it before, but so glad you shared here 
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It’s not as much “git-based” as it is GitHub based. There’s a central repository for content, then when an author wants to contribute a new piece, they create a branch and use a Pull Request to submit it for review. The reviewer(s) can then use line comments to request changes, or they can do an edit themselves and push it to the branch. This creates a history of comments and edits, so you can look at the git history for any Markdown document in the repo and see exactly who contributed/changed what. Once all reviewers have approved the piece and gotten any edits required, the branch is merged and the PR is closed. The file history stays with the document in the repo.
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Thanks! This helps a lot
The first time I read of git-based writing was in a blog post by Cory Doctorow. For some time, I put articles in a local git. But no one cared how much I commited, not even myself, so I stopped after a while. I still think this would be an awesome tool for a modern author-editor workflow. But since it took a while for me to wrap my head around the git concept, I doubt this will find widespread acceptance without a nearly perfect GUI.
Anyway, the tool that Cory Doctorow recommended in the `09 Craphound post is called flashbake, and the project still seems to be maintained. Maybe worth checking out?
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Some great stuff to look into here (didn’t see replies until I got a summary email)… I mentioned the topic above but, alas, have thought it over plenty without having much to show for it… I don’t work in tech and have too little bandwidth for writing and these obsessions of mine… I threw up a Gemini server the other day which I may play around with in connection with creative writing, but it’s true that Git is off-putting for most writers and it would need a lot of work in terms of the tooling.
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Hi, i’m Tom.
Developer of Mac tools and a few instructables (when I feel like building something you can hold) here and there.
Don’t have much free time, when I do I code and cook to relax (and take my mind off work).
Weather is hot 
, it’s the middle of summer in Australia.
Mac user since 1987.
https://www.gorgeousity.com
Welcome! I also tend to code to relax, when my brain can handle it. But cooking is a passion of mine as well
Oh good, it’s not just me then.