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Beautifying code with Alfred

By Michael Tyson | Published: October 13, 2015

Here’s an Alfred workflow which will perform some prettifying code alignments in the currently-selected text when a hotkey is pressed. It works on instance and struct members, assignments and hey, maybe other things.

Yay, prettier code!

Perform Code Alignment.alfredworkflow

Here’s a video of it in action:

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Searching iOS header files with Xcode

By Michael Tyson | Published: April 1, 2013

I’m often having to grep through various iOS frameworks in search of error codes that appear (“What the bloody hell does -10867 mean?”). This can be a bit annoying – especially while working with Core Audio – so I put together an Alfred workflow that does it for me.

Here it is – type “hs” (short for “header search”) then the text you want to search for, and it’ll give you matching results. Hit enter to open that file:line combination in Sublime Text, or edit the action script to work with the editor of your choice.

Search Xcode Header Files.alfredworkflow

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Encrypting and decrypting text with Alfred 2

By Michael Tyson | Published: March 25, 2013

Here’s a couple of Alfred 2 workflows that implement encryption and decryption via AES256, useful for doing things like sharing passwords.

Select some text (or copy it to the clipboard), and hit the encryption hotkey, and you’ll be prompted for a password; the encrypted contents will be copied to the clipboard.

Then when the recipient has the encrypted text, select or copy it, hit the decryption hotkey, and the original password will be requested. Then, the original text will be displayed and copied to the clipboard.

Encrypt.alfredworkflow

Decrypt.alfredworkflow

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I ♥ Alfred: Code execution extensions

By Michael Tyson | Published: May 2, 2012

ExtensionI’m a really big fan of Alfred, and lately I’ve found it really useful for running tiny little snippets of code — whether it’s to quickly URL decode a string, or remind myself of how C integer-to-float conversion behaves, I find myself using these little extensions I put together quite frequently.

Here’re two workflows I use to run PHP code (one which just executes it and shows the result in Growl, and one which copies the result to the clipboard), and a workflow that runs a snippet of C code. Of course, it wouldn’t take much to make workflows for many other languages, too.

Alfred 2 workflows

Now with live results! Hit enter to copy result to clipboard.

Run C Code.alfredworkflow

Run PHP Code.alfredworkflow

Older, Alfred 1 extensions:

Execute PHP Code.alfredextension

Execute PHP Code, Copy Result.alfredextension

Run C code.alfredextension

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Uploading to TestFlight with a few keystrokes, using Alfred

By Michael Tyson | Published: March 22, 2012

TestFlight IconHere’s a cute little Alfred extension I put together today that uploads a file to a TestFlight team for you, after prompting for build notes.

You’ll wanna edit the extension to put in your API key and Team ID, then just select a file in Alfred, type ‘testflight’ (or an abbreviation thereof) and enter, then enter a build summary, and off it goes. Result will appear in Growl.

Upload to TestFlight.alfredextension

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