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Exploring AppleScript — Part 6

We will save our final script to the correct location and give it the needed privileges so we can conveniently run it from the macOS menu…

4 min readJan 7, 2022

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Exploring AppleScript — Part 6

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Exploring AppleScript — Part 5

Putting all we’ve learned into a useful script and avoiding some script-killing gotchas.

7 min readDec 29, 2021

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Exploring AppleScript — Part 4

Making scripts readable, reliable, and reusable

5 min readDec 23, 2021

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Exploring AppleScript — Part 4

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VS Code’s Most Useful Snippet Variable

Learn to use the currently selected text in your snippets

3 min readDec 19, 2021

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Conditionally Creating Array Literals

If you find yourself conditionally using unshift() or push() after creating a literal array, there’s a better solution.

2 min readDec 14, 2021

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Conditionally Creating Array Literals

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Visual Studio Code Articles

An index to my articles about Visual Studio Code.

2 min readDec 12, 2021

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Tod Gentille

JavaScript/TypeScript Testing Tips

An index to my articles about testing in JavaScript and TypeScript using both mocha/chai/sinon and cypress.

2 min readDec 10, 2021

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JavaScript/TypeScript Testing Tips

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JavaScript and TypeScript Tips

An index to various articles on JavaScript, TypeScript, and React

2 min readDec 9, 2021

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JavaScript and TypeScript Tips

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AppleScript Articles

The vault of invaluable AppleScript articles

1 min readDec 7, 2021

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AppleScript Articles

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Tooling to Explore AppleScript — Part 3

It’s time to nest and tell and explore the System Events application, and use the Accessibility Navigator

5 min readDec 7, 2021

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Tooling to Explore AppleScript — Part 3

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Tod Gentille

Tod Gentille

Pluralsight author & software developer since 1980. Mostly tech articles. Love fountain pens. Opinions expressed here are my own. https://gentille.us/subscribe

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