Tootfinder

Good stuff for Mac Users. I’ve used it forever. Really handy, and it works well.
#Software #Mac #MacOS

St. Clair Software (@stclairsoft@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Default Folder X 6.1.6 is out! It includes a Focus filter to automatically switch folder sets when you activate a macOS Focus. It's also faster in file dialogs and fixes issues with keyboard shortcuts, Finder-click, keyboard focus and making new folders. https://www.stclairsoft.com/blog/2025/05/13/default-folder-x-6-1-6-automatically-swap-favorites-and-default-folders-when-you-switch-macos-focus-modes

The #software #development model for the next few years is going to be "🤖 AI & 🙏 Pray™"

In Europe and other regions we have laws mandating that electronic devices must be properly labelled with information about their energy consumption and some other externalities...
We should demand equivalent or at least similar measures for commercially distributed software, same for cloud services.
It would be a fun experience for us, software devs, being forced to acknowledge how terribly bad is the software we create.
We should be held accountable.
#software #ecologism

The Python library "YFinance" decided to force an upgrade. They did this by making the old version report a rate-limit error on every request.
Confusing.
Would have been better if they reported a "old version not supported" error or something instead. So that wasted some time.
That upgrade had dependencies which have dependencies upon a newer version of Python, so needed a whole OS upgrade really.
Which failed. Bricking the Rasp PI it was running on.
Oh well, complete rebuild of the whole machine and software it runs from scratch then.
That took all day yesterday. At the end I notice that the touch-screen doesn't touch. Needs drivers.
The drivers haven't been upgraded in six years. They brick the machine again when trying to install them on Debian Trixie.
Luckily, I kept good notes and could rebuild it all again much faster with no mistakes and knowing what to do and all the required custom software changes already made and saved.
So now I spent a whole day on annoying upgrade work because a single Python library decided to break the old version, and my Rasp Pi has no touch-screen. Which isn't ideal for a machine mostly operating as a fancy light switch for all the LED strips in the house.
This happens all the time in software. Millions of man hours wasted, so much hardware dumped because the drivers get abandoned.

In other news: Microsoft abandons Windows 10 any day now. Good luck to everyone faced with doing that lap on the upgrade treadmill.
I still have more work to do to bring up this RaspPi's software to where it was, but it'll have to wait, other things to do. At least it's back to sending me the nightly finance report and controlling the LED strips. If without a touch screen now.
#software #upgradeTredmil #python #microsoft