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    #101: Red Sweaters and AppleScript Fun with Daniel Jalkut

    May 6th, 2022 · 102 minutes

    In this episode, Rosemary and David are joined by Daniel Jalkut, the man in the red sweater behind FastScripts, MarsEdit, and the Core Intuition podcast. Together they ponder the future of AppleScript, and just how fast is a script anyway?

    Guest Starring: Daniel Jalkut

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    About: Daniel Jalkut
    Red Sweater Software
    xkcd: Automation time spent vs saved
    invariablyafk/thinkc-mac-classic-helloworld: Hello world example using Think C 5.0, for Classic Macintosh System 7
    Dash for macOS - API Documentation Browser, Snippet Manager - Kapeli
    Getting Started with Headless Chrome - Chrome Developers
    Puppeteer  |  Tools for Web Developers  |  Google Developers
    Driving Headless Chrome with Python - GeeksforGeeks
    Selenium
    SmolSoftBoi/puppeteer-stealth: For puppeteer to prevent detection.
    iCab Mobile (Web Browser) on the App Store
    Beautiful Soup Documentation — Beautiful Soup 4.4.0 documentation
    Transloader for Mac, iPhone and iPad - Eternal Storms Software
    FastScripts 3
    1.4 Using OSA Menu with OS 9
    Apple's Script - Red Sweater Blog
    FastScripts 3: Scriptlight Search, Parallel Execution, Progress Reporting, and More! - Red Sweater Blog
    How to Create and Use Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks) on a Mac
    The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 343, With Paul Kafasis
    BetterTouchTool | folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac!
    Core Intuition Podcast