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Title: All the Ways I Automate Post by: HCK on November 27, 2016, 04:05:22 pm All the Ways I Automate
Automation features on the Mac are just too useful to vanish. Former lead editor at Macworld, Jason Snell has covered Apple and other tech companies for two decades. You can find him at Six Colors, and the The Incomparable, Upgrade, and Clockwise podcasts. */ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ Scripting and automation have been in the conversation lately, owing to Apple's reported disbanding of the macOS team responsible for them and the departure of scripting advocate Sal Soghoian from the company last month. They sounds like arcane, abstract concepts. And to be sure, scripting and automation are the sort of feature that's used by more like 5% of users rather than 50%. But in pondering Apple's possible shift in automation strategy, I began to consider all the ways I use it in my working life. Why automate? The first question is the biggest: Why is this stuff necessary? The short answer is that computers are really good at repetitive tasks, and humans aren't. We all know that our com... Source: All the Ways I Automate (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/28eLeJHSGjg/all-ways-i-automate) |