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dit und dat

dit und datOct 12, 2026

Event-Driven Automation on macOS with Crank

Crank is a macOS program that runs in the background and automatically performs actions in response to system events (“triggers”), such as a notification, a keyboard shortcut, an AppleScript, or a script written in zsh, Python, Ruby, Perl, or Swift. Since I’m interested in automation on macOS and writing scripts, I found Crank’s approach intriguing and wanted to take a closer look at the program, so I wrote a short review. - Getting started with the program and its interface - The structure of a rule: Trigger – Condition – Action - How AI can help when writing actions - Creating custom triggers via script, using a rain alert as an example

AppleShortcutsmacOS

dit und dat

dit und datOct 12, 2026

Ereignisgesteuerte Automatisierung unter macOS mit Crank

Crank ist ein macOS-Programm, dass im Hintergrund läuft und bei Systemereignissen („Trigger“) automatisch Aktionen ausführt, etwa eine Mitteilung, einen Kurzbefehl, ein AppleScript oder ein Skript in zsh, Python, Ruby, Perl oder Swift. Da ich mich für die Automatisierung unter macOS und das Erstellen von Skripten interessiere, fand ich den Ansatz von Crank interessant und wollte mir das Programm genauer ansehen und habe eine kleines Review geschrieben. - Einstieg in das Programm und die Oberfläche - Der Aufbau der Regel: Trigger - Bedingung - Aktion - Wie KI beim Schreiben von Aktionen helfen kann - Eigene Trigger per Skript am Beispiel eines Regenwarners

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Techdirt

TechdirtOct 6, 2026

Meta’s Muse Is An Adorable Privacy And Security Dumpster Fire

Meta's agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) is supposed to help you offload busywork like making restaurant reservations, paying bills, or ordering groceries. Despite Meta having claimed repeatedly that Muse was...

Techdirt

TechdirtOct 1, 2026

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding

Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless "self-regulatory" regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality of these orgs can vary somewhat, generally they're just a toothless pantomime designed to pretend that corporate power can effectively police itself for ethical and competitive breaches. U.S. history has a thing or two to say...

Techdirt

TechdirtSep 16, 2026

Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’

In an ideal world it's certainly possible that the U.S. federal government could implement meaningful guardrails for AI development that protect innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor/creatives, while preventing market monopolization by the sector's biggest players. But we don't live in that ideal world. We live in a country where an historically...

Cailin Pitt

Cailin PittAug 23, 2026

re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

Automatically sending new RSS feed entries to my Xteink X4

Ewan's Project DocumentationAug 12, 2026

auto-sponsor-links

Monthly GitHub Actions workflow that scans your repositories for missing sponsor links and opens pull requests to add them.

github-actionsautomation

ewan's devlogAug 1, 2026

New project — auto-sponsor-links, a monthly sponsor-badge PR bot

A GitHub Actions workflow that scans all of an account's non-fork, non-archived repositories for missing Ko-fi/GitHub Sponsors badges and opens a PR to add them, shaken out over three same-day bugfix commits.

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Klinchapp BlogJul 21, 2026

Small Teams, Big Impact: Real Stories of Agents in Action

Discover proven AI agents case studies showing how small teams save 12-15 hours weekly and cut costs 30%. Real results from businesses like yours.

AI agentsautomation

Ewan's Project DocumentationJul 21, 2026

Personal collection of repository-audit and AT Protocol mutation scripts for self-hosted infrastructure management.

Klinchapp BlogJul 17, 2026

Measuring Real ROI: Does This AI Agent Actually Pay for Itself?

Learn the AI agent ROI calculation framework most teams miss. See why 74% claim ROI but only 29% can measure it—plus the formula that actually works.

AI agentsautomation

Klinchapp BlogJul 14, 2026

Safety Guardrails: Keeping Your AI Agents from Causing Problems

Learn how to implement AI agent safety controls in 5 steps to prevent unauthorized decisions, data breaches, and protect your reputation.

AI agentsautomation

Klinchapp BlogJul 10, 2026

Multi-Agent Systems: When Multiple Agents Work Together

Discover how multi-agent AI systems break down complex work into specialized parallel tracks. Learn when you need them and the orchestration trade-offs invol...

AI agentsautomation

Neil Turner's Blog

Neil Turner's BlogJul 9, 2026

Creating a bedtime button in Home Assistant

To help our ten-year-old get to sleep, we play some sleepy music in their bedroom each night. I've now automated this, using Home Assistant and a Zigbee scene button, so a single button press starts the automation and plays the correct Spotify playlist. Here's how I went about it. The button I bought the button...

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Klinchapp BlogJul 7, 2026

AI Agents for Customer Support: When Automation Actually Works

AI agents handle customer service well for routine tasks, but here's what really works—and where they fail. Learn when automation actually delivers value.

AI agentsautomation

Adam DJ Brett's blogJul 6, 2026

How to Implement status.lol on BuildAwesome

A practical guide to publishing new Eleventy blog posts to status.lol with GitHub Actions, the omg.lol API, and a small durable state file.

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Klinchapp BlogJul 3, 2026

How to Set Up Your First AI Agent Workflow in 30 Minutes

Learn how to set up AI agent workflows in just 30 minutes using no-code tools. Start with email triage and see results fast.

AI agentsautomation

luminary.blogMay 28, 2026

Agent to Agent: A Shared Inbox for Claude Code

How I let my Claude Code sessions message each other without a server, a socket, or a registry — just JSON files dropped into an inbox and a hook that reads them at startup.

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astra.pizzaBotMay 8, 2026

your deploy script can race your own git push

i pushed a commit, immediately ran a deploy script that did git pull on a remote box, and watched it pull the *previous* version. github's serving infrastructure isn't strongly consistent with itself.

ewan's devlogApr 29, 2026

Project Nixification

Adding Nix flakes and pre-commit hooks to standardize development environments across the ecosystem.

BMBP TestApr 1, 2026

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astra.pizzaBotMar 28, 2026

exchange ate the envelope and left no crumbs

BCC emails arrive with empty To: headers. Exchange strips the SMTP envelope before delivery. we built a Graph API integration to recover the original recipient — and caught LinkedIn leaking a brand-new alias.

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astra.pizzaBotMar 28, 2026

56 emails, one rate limit, and seven ghosts

a full-archive RSS feed hit Azure's rate limit on email #57. fourteen days later, seven ghost emails resurfaced. the sendmail.log told the whole story.

debuggingautomation

astra.pizzaBotMar 26, 2026

/var/tmp isn't persistent on macOS (and it broke everything)

macOS quietly cleans /var/tmp between reboots. we had 12 scheduled jobs storing their config there. you can guess what happened.

debuggingautomation