This will only work on the Mac, and has only been tested with an app called Context Menu¹, and requires Imagemagick and other tools installed via Homebrew, and other things I’m probably omitting, but this is a little script I wrote that will work in the Mac context menu to automatically resize any image type you specify and output it with “-smaller” appended.

Here’s how it looks in my right-click menu:

And here’s my glorious code:

#!/bin/bash

for f in "$@"
do
# Get the width and height of the original image
dimensions=$(sips -g pixelWidth -g pixelHeight "$f")
width=$(echo "$dimensions" | awk '/pixelWidth:/ { print $2 }')
height=$(echo "$dimensions" | awk '/pixelHeight:/ { print $2 }')

if [ "$width" -gt 1200 ] || [ "$height" -gt 1200 ]; then
# Get file name without extension and the extension
filename="${f%.*}"
extension="${f##*.}"

# Output file name
output="${filename}-smaller.${extension}"

# Copy original to new file first
cp "$f" "$output"

# Resize and set DPI using mogrify
/opt/homebrew/bin/mogrify -resize 1200x1200\> -density 96 -units PixelsPerInch "$output"

else
# Show dialog with custom icon if image is too small
osascript <<EOF
set iconFile to POSIX file "/Users/quoderat/icons/10112-crying-cat-face-icon.png" as alias
display dialog "Image is too small, home slice." buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" with icon iconFile
EOF
fi
done

It should be noted that if you attempt to resize an image that is smaller than 1200 pixels width/height the script will pop up a dialog box that says, “Image is too small, home slice.”

Tune that puppy how you want. It has comments and it’s pretty obvious what it’s doing and how.

1. Though it can be easily adapted to Mac Quick Actions as it it’s just a Bash script with a little Applescript. Or might just work. I haven’t checked.

I just donated $10 to the creator and maintainer of TabMix Plus for his continuing fight against the inanity of Mozilla and the authoritarian loser Firefox devs.

May he ever resist their doofy clownishness and make a good, useful extension. (That now requires all sorts of hoops to jump through to get it working.)

Everywhere in my field wants you to be a developer now.

It’s sad to see. And pointless. They’re different disciplines. A lot of roles these days expect you to be an expert developer, an experienced manager and a great sysadmin, while doing 10-20 other things as well.

This is just not possible. And I have absolutely no interest in being a developer, which is about all that seems to be valued anymore for whatever reason.

It’s a terrible time in tech.

Most dreaded question: how many years of Microsoft experience do you have.

Pretty much all of them. I first used MS-DOS sometime in 1981, shortly after it was released. That’s 42 years of experience.

If professional office experience, then 31 years; the time, it do fly.

I assume this question means “Microsoft Office” or something as it’s too broad to really answer well, but I’ve used just about every major application MS has ever made and a whole lot of their minor ones too. Alas.

There are very few things that unify most Americans anymore.
But if some IT person at 23andMe, as he or she is packing up to move out of the office, were to "accidentally" push the "OMGOSH DON'T PUSH THIS OR IT WILL DELETE EVERYTHING" button, America will have a new folk hero.

— Yer buddy Don (@prayerborne) March 24, 2025

If they are at all a competent company, they have immutable backups that can’t be deleted. Where I work our safest backups I cannot even delete. In fact, no one can; they are object locked and literally cannot be deleted. No ransomware, admin, or user can nuke them. (In other words, even a takeover of my highest-level admin account would not be enough to delete these backups. The attacker would actually have to hack AWS itself, a vastly more difficult proposition.)

To delete our backups, as mentioned above someone would have to hack into AWS itself (very, very difficult), and then hack the object lock mechanism (nearly impossible) and then manually delete the data from all 20-30 datacenters it’s replicated across. This is something even a state-level actor with millions in funding would find just about impossible.

Any business that does not do something like the above is operating at clown level as it’s so cheap and easy.

Recruiter accidently emailed me her secret internal selection guidelines.

It’s sad to see tech starting to become like doctor/lawyer type careers. The professionalization of the field means less innovation, and that I never could’ve entered it as I did back in the day.

That working your way up path is closed now. Unless you attended a top 10 school if you’re just getting started, forget a decent job. Requiring a CS degree for fucking around with CSS is like requiring a Master’s Degree for being a receptionist — but that’s the way the world is moving.

Soon, there will be the rich and the connected. And then all the rest.