Forty-two astoundingly useful scripts and automations for your Macintosh. Work faster and more reliably. Use Perl, Python, AppleScript, Swift, and Automator to automate the drudgery of computer use. Work on the command line, add actions to the services menu and the menu bar, and create drag-and-drop apps. Build talking alarms. Roll dice. Create ASCII art and music! Preflight your social media comments and display your to-do lists on your desktop. And of course, manage your favorite recipes. That’s what computers are for. Get your retro on and bring your Macintosh into the world we were promised, a world of personal computers, where your computer is yours to control.
Jerry Stratton has sold programming articles to Hobby Computer Handbook, 80 Microcomputing, and Dragon Magazine. He has managed the web site and server at a small private university and has been writing computer programs since 1982 on the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I.