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Rogue Amoeba make a range of super-powered audio utilities that improve the macOS audio experience for both listeners and creators. Two that I use almost every day are SoundSource, which gives me control over volume and output devices on a per-application basis, and Airfoil, which can control and group output devices in a unified interface (which I prefer to fiddling with the limited control built in to macOS). Airfoil also includes a Satellite app which can control audio from a separate device. For example. if I’m in the office and have music playing from my computer to a Bluetooth speaker, and I happen to be working in the storage shelves when I want to skip a song, I can do so from my phone (if I remembered to carry my phone with me). ...

I love my day job but I keep forgetting that rest is good for my mental and physical health. (At my age, you’d think I would have internalised this by now.) I’m taking a week off with NO PLANS! I’ve moved my synthesisers from my office floor onto my desk. Maybe I’ll play with them, maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll tinker with this website some more, maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll make good progress reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, maybe I won’t! What I definitely won’t be doing is checking my to-do list every thirty minutes. How liberating. ...