Astounding Scripts archive

December 2023

• The Soul Felt It’s Worth (Music Hall) — December 20

September 2023

• Padmath in Ventura (About Astounding Scripts) — September 27
• Find all parent mailboxes in macOS Mail (Hacks) — September 6

August 2023

• JXA and AppleScript compared via HyperCard (Hacks) — August 9

July 2023

• A HyperCard Time Machine (Hacks) — July 19

November 2022

• Our Cybernetic Future 1972: Man and Machine (Mimsy Were the Technocrats) — November 16

October 2022

• Astounding Scripts on Monterey (About Astounding Scripts) — October 5

June 2022

• Let mortal tongues awake (Music Hall) — June 29
• No premature optimization (Hacks) — June 15

April 2022

• Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! (Music Hall) — April 13

December 2021

• Have yourself a musical command line… (Music Hall) — December 22

July 2021

• Why should everyone learn to program? (Mimsy Were the Technocrats) — July 14

June 2021

• The Star-Spangled Banner in MIDI (Music Hall) — June 30
• Big Sur and Astounding Scripts (About Astounding Scripts) — June 12

February 2021

• Safari 14.0.3 fixes Services bug (About Astounding Scripts) — February 6

January 2021

• Create your own ASCII art palettes with densitySort (Astounding ASCII Art) — January 27
• Another Safari 14 Services workaround (About Astounding Scripts) — January 2

December 2020

• Smashwords Post-Christmas Sale (Book Reviews) — December 26
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 0 (Go Tell It On the CoCo!) (Astounding Computer History) — December 24
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 1 (Do You Hear What I Hear?) (Astounding Computer History) — December 23
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 10 (Up on the Rooftop) (Astounding Computer History) — December 22
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 11 (O Christmas Tree) (Astounding Computer History) — December 21
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 100 (Hearth) (Astounding Computer History) — December 20
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 101 (Rudolph) (Astounding Computer History) — December 19
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 110 (Snowman) (Astounding Computer History) — December 18
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas (Astounding Computer History) — December 17
• 8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 111 (Dual Greeting Card) (Astounding Computer History) — December 17
• O Little Town of Bethlehem (Music Hall) — December 16

November 2020

• I have read a fiery gospel (Music Hall) — November 18

September 2020

• Safari 14 disables Automator Quick Actions in text fields (About Astounding Scripts) — September 26
• Check42 for verifying Astounding Scripts (Sample scripts) — September 18
• 42 Astounding Scripts, Catalina edition (About Astounding Scripts) — September 2

April 2020

• Random colors in your ASCII art (Astounding ASCII Art) — April 29
• How Great Thou Art (Music Hall) — April 8

January 2020

• Hello World in Amber (Astounding ASCII Art) — January 22

December 2019

• Tidings of Comfort and Joy (Music Hall) — December 18
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Music Hall) — December 11

November 2019

• Installing new tools with brew (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — November 30
• A Song of Thanksgiving: America, the Beautiful (Music Hall) — November 27
• Computers and Serial Imagery (Astounding ASCII Art) — November 16
• The way to be a programmer is to program (Mimsy Were the Technocrats) — November 6
• A scriptable text editor for iOS (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — November 2

October 2019

• Artist and Computer (Astounding Computer History) — October 26
• Catalina: iTunes Library XML (About Astounding Scripts) — October 19
• A thousand points of color: give your photos a pointillist turn (Astounding ASCII Art) — October 16
• An alternative to the crontab file (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — October 12
• Amazing Grace (Uncommon Melody) (Music Hall) — October 2

September 2019

• 101 BASIC Computer Games (Astounding Computer History) — September 28
• Is It Worth the Time? (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — September 21
• Scripting your iPad and iPhone with Pythonista (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — September 14
• Commemorate Patriot Day with Betsy Ross (Astounding ASCII Art) — September 11
• Eudora email client (Astounding Computer History) — September 7

August 2019

• How to be a programmer (About Astounding Scripts) — August 31
• Amazing Grace (Common Melody) (Music Hall) — August 28
• Inkscape also scriptable with Python (Astoundingly scriptable apps) — August 24
• Scribus, Astounding Scripts, and Python (Astoundingly scriptable apps) — August 17
• Astounding@Goodreads (About Astounding Scripts) — August 14
• Textastic is a great text editor for scripts on macOS (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — August 10
• Piano notation reference sheet (Music Hall) — August 7
• The seventies like a shooting star (Astounding ASCII Art) — August 4
• 42 Astounding Scripts is live! (About Astounding Scripts) — August 2
• Edit (Zsh) (Sample scripts) — August 1
• ASCII ramp (Astounding ASCII Art) — August 1
• Nisus (Astoundingly scriptable apps) — August 1
• Sourcetree (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — August 1
• GraphicConverter (Astoundingly scriptable apps) — August 1
• GeekTool (Astoundingly useful programming tools) — August 1
• Buy on Amazon (paperback) (About Astounding Scripts) — August 1
• Buy on Apple Books (About Astounding Scripts) — August 1
• Buy on Smashwords (About Astounding Scripts) — August 1
• About Astounding Scripts — August 1
• Astounding Computer History — August 1
• Astoundingly scriptable apps — August 1
• Astoundingly useful programming tools — August 1
• Astounding Scripts archive — August 1
• Music Hall — August 1
• Astounding ASCII Art — August 1

February 2019

• Sample scripts — February 22
• 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh — February 22

July 2014

• Must-have iOS app: Editorial (Mimsy Were the Technocrats) — July 10

June 2007

• Learning to program without BASIC (Hacks) — June 19

January 2007

• Internet and Programming Tutorials — January 23