@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

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Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Feb 09, 2026

AEQuery v0.3.0 just released with lots of fixes.

https://github.com/alldritt/aequery/releases/tag/v0.3.0

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Feb 05, 2026

I’ve released AEQuery, a command-line tool for querying scriptable macOS applications using XPath-like expressions. It translates paths like /Finder/windows/name directly into Apple Events and returns JSON.

Available via Homebrew. Source and details: https://github.com/alldritt/aequery

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Sep 11, 2025

Me working on Script Debugger 1 on MacOS System 7 back in 1995. I had quit my job developing cellular infrastructure software at Motorola to focus on Script Debugger, and we were about to have a baby. It all seemed nuts at the time. Script Debugger was retired this year after 30 years of continuous development. #applescript

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Jan 03, 2025

https://latenightsw.com/retiring-script-debugger/ #applescript

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Sep 26, 2024

@provuejim@techhub.social hey Jim. Sorry for rushing off from NSDrinking. I’m glad SD Notary helped you out.

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Dec 25, 2023

Merry Christmas!

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Dec 07, 2023

@czottmann@norden.social the with timeout block changes the timeout period for appleevents sent within the block.

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Nov 13, 2023

Here's a project demonstrating how to integrate a SwiftUI document-based application using JSON model encoding with the iOS Undo Manager. Pulling all the pieces together to make this work properly was surprisingly difficult. #SwiftUI https://github.com/alldritt/JSONDocumentTest

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Nov 12, 2023

When migrating Codable model objects from ObserableObject to @Observable you must explicitly specify CodingKeys for your properties or object decoding fails (see https://callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik/2023/08/14/new-swift-observation/). #SwiftUI

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@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

Mark Alldritt

@alldritt@mstdn.ca

Father, partner, retired software developer, photographer, aspiring tennis player, cyclist, LEGO enthusiast, lover of Jazz, Classical and the Blues, recovering music-first Audiophile, and general cynic.

mstdn.ca

@alldritt@mstdn.ca · Nov 04, 2023

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/01/confusing-git-terminology/ This wonderful post from Julie Evans answered a bunch of long standing questions I’ve had regarding Git.

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