Even though you can use Regular Expressions (regex) only in the Match Text and Replace Text actions, it’s super useful because it can drastically reduce the number of required actions as well as running time to perform many tasks. I would say JSON (dictionary) → regex → JavaScript is the skill path you can take to create complex shortcuts more easily.
https://regexlearn.com is the easiest tutorial that I’ve ever seen to interactively learn the basics of regex. It doesn’t teach you everything but gives you solid knowledge to apply immediately to Shortcuts and to continue on to the next level. Highly recommended.🙂
Please comment if you know other great tutorials.
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Hey everyone, I’m so happy to officially kick off the Automation April Shortcuts Contest!
For those who missed our announcement, Automation April is our month-long showcase of automation on Apple platforms with a focus on Shortcuts. We’re going to be releasing special articles and shortcuts on MacStories and the Club, themed episodes of AppStories, host a series of workshops on our Discord, and more. We have all the details here.
The cornerstone of this event is the Shortcuts Contest. We want to celebrate the Shortcuts community with a healthy competition to find the most impressive shortcuts shared by creators with us. You can submit up to 2 shortcuts and submissions will close on April 20th.
The Best Overall Shortcut winner will take home a 3-year subscription to Club Premier, a special role in our Discord, an Elgato Stream Deck XL, and an Analogue Pocket console.
Here’s how it works:
Go to shortcuts.macstories.net and either sign in with your …
I like to listen to podcasts while I play video games, and I like to laugh. What’s the funniest podcast episode you’ve ever heard? Preferably looking for something that can be consumed out-of-context.
To clarify, I’ve already listened to the following, and they’re great:
EDIT: Keep ‘em coming! Breath of the Wild is going to be great tonight…
Started the Amelia Project (so so TBH but anyway) and I’m up to the Lock Down Tapes section. They’re like a little time capsule, listening to people complain about hoarding behaviours and taking it so seriously when everyone had the energy to do so (I think we should still be taking it seriously, but anyway). Also just the highs and lows of adjusting to working from home and listening to podcasters battle social isolation. It feels like forever ago but fuck, 2020…
I’m looking for another podcast that goes similarly deep into another field, not hacking. It doesn’t have to start from absolutely no knowledge in that field, but a little explanations here and there are nice.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I get this email every other week for their podcast.
I have nothing against the USPS and this isn’t meant as a jab toward any postal workers, it’s just a bit humorous to me. Their graphic just makes me think oh hell yeah MAILIN’ IT let’s get down with some mail! Everyones got podcasts these days.
I listen to a lot of podcasts about video games, tabletop gaming, and other movie and media focused subjects. I notice an increasing trend involves podcasts allowing their paying, Patreon members to join in for an episode, as an upper tier patron reward.
Especially with gaming podcasts, twenty-something Magic the Gathering players are about as charismatic and fun to listen to as you would imagine. People talking about their favorite video game are pretty insufferable sometimes.
Please send these people a tote bag as a reward instead of bogging down entire episodes with someone who can’t talk.
I’ve discovered recently this amazing Podcast called History of Philosophy without any gaps. And i can’t get enough of it, i would recommend it absolutely.
Would you recommend other podcasts on the same topic?
I want to read something like No Longer Human, The Bell Jar, The Stranger, Nausea or something like the Rum Diaries. I hope you get the idea. I want to read the words written by someone whose experiencing the pain first hand. I have been trying to find such a book for a while now any recommendations are much appreciated.
Which is the best book that you read recently and why did you like it so much?
Books that you think are the absolute best and are always on top of your recommendations list.
Tried this post before. Removed for some such violation. Reworded it to comply. We’ll see.
My suggestions were Jaws, a great movie but an awful book, and The Godfather, which I liked but much too much emphasis on genital sizes.
I don’t have a current favourite author because I only started reading again very recently. However, in high school, my favourites were Haruki Murakami and Kurt Vonnegut.
for Murakami, I’ll suggest
- Norwegian Wood
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Kafka on the Shore (not a favourite of mine, but I like it enough, and my friends love it too)
for Vonnegut, I have
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Mother Night
- Sirens of Titan
I am a middle aged house wife and it’s time I started acting like one. But seriously I am a member of r/fantasy and some romance novel groups but I find myself living in the middle ground and I don’t know whom to go to for help. I hate romance novels. Not because they are bad every genre is a good genre and read what you like and nothing else life’s to short. But I have a below average emotional range, so when I read a romance novel it reads like melodrama. I am looking for a fantasy/adventure/sci-fi novel full of sex. Something like the Witcher compilation novels + sex. I don’t care if there is romance in it, it just cannot be the plot of the book.
I’m looking for game(s) where you are for example a blacksmith who can create very special quality weapons. There is a war going on and in the beginning your reputation might not be big, but by little your reputation grows and then every country wants you. They might fight over you or you can be able to directly support a country you want.
In a game called Hammerting the overworld aspect is kinda like things. You are dwarfs in a mountain and you can buy or sell with whoever you want. Help them in wars by building structures in their cities.
Basically a game where you are a super support and everybody wants you on their team.
Someone following things from the sidelines and you can indirectly(or directly) affect how the game goes.
Okay I know this is a weird one.
What I’m looking is for multiplayer games that had intricated worlds that meant to house a lot of people but now they are empty.
There just something about a world that was meant to be have people but is empty now. Is less a liminal feeling and more of an existential one
This is a good example of what I’m looking for
I bought it, I played it but I don’t have the reflexes needed to progress.
Any games similar with an open world, variety of content and similar fighting system that is forgiving to people who just aren’t fast enough to play?
Old games (only on gog)
Nox - rpg topdown view game similar to Diablo and one of the best games Westwood studios evermade
Evil islands - an old c rpg game similar to pillars of eternity but has a very unique crafting system
New games
Griftlands - deck builder rougelike game just like slay the spire but with more story, you play with 3 characters each with a complete different story and gameplay mechanics
star renegade - turnbased rougelike games with amazing story and gorgeous art style, the runs are very enjoyable but the game is hard and takes time to understand the mechanics
So many games I see about “working your way up from the bottom” in an open world sandbox, which focus on taking jobs instead of linear quests, and which have a trading economy, are all in space. Evochron Mercenary, Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw, the Egosoft “X” games, etc. While I have found a few that aren’t set in space (Frontier Pilot Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Coastline Flight Simulator), they are all strictly vehicle-based. The only exception I’ve found it Kenshi.
I was wondering, how many games follow the above model, but in the format of a first or third person RPG? Or anything that isn’t strictly tied to vehicles? I had to really dig for a lot of the above examples, but they had the benefit of being tagged “flight” and “open world”, which meant that I could at least find them. I’m not sure what I could enter into steam to search specifically for the elements described above.
When thinking about my favorite games, I find a recurring theme. They all are fairly free roaming with a lot of exploring and most all the gameplay rewards you towards expanding your skill set, making exploration easier as you go. Some of these include
Breath of The Wild - Every Korak seed helps expand your inventory. Every shrine helps increase your Health/Stamina for easier fighting/more climbing.
Link Between Worlds - Every rupee brings you closer to purchasing the dungeon items. Also finding heart containers, etc.
A Short Hike - Finding feathers increases your jumps
Yokus Island Express - Fruit unlocks more paddles to open up more of the world
Steamworld Dig - Money allows purchasing upgrades to increase exploration ability
Psychonauts - More linear, but exploring the hub for arrowheads/Psi Cards, levels up and unlocks new abilities
I like being able to run around the world freely, while always progressing in some way. Maybe these are just Non-Linear Metroidvanias? If you …