Kolja Nolte

Category: Tips & Tricks

“There must be a solution for this,” I often think. In this category you’ll find what saved me hassle, headaches, and countless hours of banging my head against the wall.

  • What’s in my /Applications Folder: 10 macOS Apps I can’t (or don’t want to) live without

    What’s in my /Applications Folder: 10 macOS Apps I can’t (or don’t want to) live without

    I have a weird habit. Every few years, I feel the urge to wipe my iMac, MacBook Pro, or whatever device I’m actively working on completely clean. I do have backups, but I don’t use them. Instead, I choose to format the entire hard disk and start setting up everything from scratch. That also applies to all my apps.

    And when it comes to apps, I’m as picky as my cat deciding which cardboard to sit in. Here are 10 apps – some of them paid, some of them open-source – that I don’t want to miss when working on macOS.

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  • Using BoltAI’s Shell Plugin to Automate Tedious and Boring Tasks with Groq

    Using BoltAI’s Shell Plugin to Automate Tedious and Boring Tasks with Groq

    I know, I know, the AI hype train has long left the station, and it’d be rather embarrassing to explain for the millionth time what AI (or, to be precise, generative AI), how they work, and what prompts yield the best results for whatever you’re using it for.

    But there’s one feature that, at least according to my observations, is rarely touched: plugins. Let me give you just one example of how it can automate a whole chain of commands with just one prompt.

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