{"id":1290,"date":"2018-09-24T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2018-09-24T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:03:00","slug":"macscripter-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"MacScripter.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce that I have become the new host of the <a href=\"http:\/\/macscripter.net\">MacScripter.net<\/a> discussion forum.  MacScripter has been a long standing resource for information concerning macOS automation using technologies such as AppleScript, Automator, and JavaScript For Automation.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/geeksuit\">Ray Barber<\/a> established the site many many years ago and has grown it to the point where it is today with almost 30,000 members and an archive of 175,000 posts.  MacScripter is a core piece of the AppleScript and macOS automation landscape.  Links to MacScripter articles appear almost everywhere macOS automation is discussed.  This is all a testament to Ray&#8217;s vision in creating MacScripter.net and to his support of the site over the years.  Ray has decided to step down and I&#8217;m really pleased to be able to provide the resources needed to keep MacScripter.net going in the future.<\/p>\n\n<p>I sense we are at a point where automation of Apple products is seeing a resurgence.  The release of Shortcuts in iOS 12 suggests that Apple has become serious about automation on its mobile devices.  I feel this change will spur people to look for more opportunities to automate their Macs as well.  All of this represents a great opportunity for MacScripter to grow and become relevant to a new audience.<\/p>\n\n<p>MacScripter will remain more or less as it is.  It will continue to be a place to discuss topics related to macOS and iOS automation in a technology and product agnostic environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce that I have become the new host of the MacScripter.net discussion forum. MacScripter has been a long standing resource for information&#8230;<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=1290\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MacScripter.net<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6,15,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AQk-kO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}