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Olivetti had a work & live campus, starting in the 50s of the last century: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/t-magazine/olivetti-typew...

Over the years I created several released and unreleased tools to scratch my own itches. Software: Swift library to read and modify ZIP archives: https://peakstep.com/claquette/ Sc…

https://thomas.zoechling.me/journal/ I mainly write about developing for the Apple ecosystem in general and Swift development in particular.

Hi, I am one of the engineers working on MindNode. We don’t register MindNode as the owner of “md”, but as an app that can open and save to this file type. If we don’t do this we a…

If you are still looking for a pure Swift ZIP handling library, you can check out ZIPFoundation: https://github.com/weichsel/ZIPFoundation

Wrote an implementation of the ZIP specification in Swift: https://github.com/weichsel/ZIPFoundation Main motivation back then was a side project of mine, but since I open sourced …

A long running side project of mine is a lightweight GIF & video utility for the Mac: https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/ It can perform a handful of often-needed video tasks like …

Finished and released the 2.0 version my Mac video utility Claquette. It steps in where QuickTime Player is too basic and using video editing software like Final Cut is too cumbers…

This is an interesting blog post about creating high quality Animated GIFs with ScreenFlow: https://framer.com/blog/posts/how-to-create-high-quality-gif...

While Animated GIFs are very inefficient by todays standards, they still have several advantages over all modern video formats: - GIF lacks audio support so it's guaranteed to be s…

- Exim, MTA ( https://www.exim.org ) - Dovecot, MDA ( https://www.dovecot.org ) - Nginx, HTTP(2) Server ( https://nginx.org ) - Gogs, Git service ( https://gogs.io ) - Coldsweat, R…

I am also still using RSS - Preferably consumed via well-made, native apps on macOS and iOS. Since Google Reader went down, I am using the self-hosted Coldsweat: https://github.com…

I open sourced a ZIP library written in Swift for macOS/iOS/tvOS/watchOS and Linux: https://github.com/weichsel/ZIPFoundation and wrote an article about it here: https://thomas.zoe…

I wrote an accompanying blog post about the performance characteristics of the framework here: https://thomas.zoechling.me/journal/2017/07/ZIPFoundation.ht...

I added an animated GIF exporter to my lossless screen recorder Claquette (macOS, https://www.peakstep.com/claquette ). The project got some traction when Apple featured me in the …