[tdsanchez]

I’ve made a bunch of tools to help me get around file system limitations on modern Macs (APFS) and treating my entire legacy file collection as CMS challenge and have cranked out more binaries in 3 months than in the 10 years before the arrival of these tools. If you know how to use these tools and how to think like an architect and not a hobbyist Claude is truly in the technological lead.

I am a bit, but not much, younger than 60 and have been coding since Apple II days.

These tools are pretty close to HAL 9000 so of course GIGO as always has been the case with computer tech.

Almost everything is in Go except an image fingerprinting api server written in Swift. The most USEFUL thing I’ve written is a Go based APFS monitor that will help you not overfill your SSD and get pained into corner by Time Machine.

[ValentineC]

Are your tools open source? They sound kinda cool.

[tdsanchez]

I intend to in the near future and you can use my whole setup. The PoC is on Github under the same username. https://github.com/tdsanchez/PostMac/

[tdsanchez]

It has the apfs-monitor and basic media browser that’s roughly a cross between pre ElCap iPhoto and pre OSX iView multimedia and you can edit tags and comments and dive into tag groups by clicking tags. Extended attributes and file metadata are loaded into a SQLite DB at startup and all that fetching never happens again.

Since the released version I’ve added ~100 features.

Repo is trunk based and atypical for github. There are brew based dependencies.

I’ll formalize more later.

[tdsanchez]

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