#st. simon stock

[thecatholiccrusade]

The Miraculous Apparition of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

On the summer day of July 16, 1251, in the quiet town of Cambridge, England, an event occurred that would forever change the course of Marian devotion. St. Simon Stock, the elderly prior general of the Carmelite Order, was deep in prayer, beseeching the Blessed Virgin Mary for help. The Carmelite Order was facing severe oppression and uncertainty, and Simon turned to Mary in this time of great…

[bl00d-hail]

found these lil guys with my grandma’s sewing stuff

[thepastisalreadywritten]

On July 16, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Mount Carmel is the mountain in the middle of the plain of Galilee on which the prophet Elijah called down a miracle of fire from the Lord to show the people of Israel who had strayed that "The Lord is God!" and that the prophets of Baal were worshipping a false god.

There is a tradition that traces the Carmelite Order's informal beginnings to the prophet Elijah himself, even though there is no evidence of this.

The formal beginnings are attributed to a group of monks who, in the 13th century, began living and praying on the mountain.

They venerated the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Mount Carmel and from this veneration was derived the name Carmelite.

In 1226, the rule of the order was approved by Pope Honorius III.

21 years later, St. Simon Stock, an Englishman, was elected superior of the order.

On 16 July 1251, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Simon. She gave him the brown scapular and promised protection to all those who wear the brown habit.

Pope Pius X decreed in the early 20th century that this blessing of the Blessed Virgin would extend to all who wear the medal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was instituted by the Carmelites sometime between 1376 and 1386.

[artemlegere]

Torquato Fasso and Eleanore D'Este

Artist: Felice Schiavoni (Italian, 1803-1881)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1839

Media: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Felice Schiavoni

Felice Schiavoni was an Italian painter, depicting history, genre, and portraits. During his early career, he often collaborated with his father, the painter Natale Schiavoni.

Felice was born in Trieste. He was first a pupil of his father, and he then studied at the Brera Academy at Milan, where he won a prize, and later at Venice and Vienna. He was awarded a prize and medal by Emperor Nicholas of Russia.

He often painted in Venice for Russian patrons. Among his works are a Death of Raphael Sanzio painted during a period of 15 years for Emperor Alexander II of Russia, and for which he was paid 60 thousand Lire. The large canvas was an scholarly tour-de-force which included 16 portraits of famous Italian artists, assembled to grieve at the bedside of the dying painter, including Pierin del Vago, La Fornarina, Giulio Romano, Andrea Navagero, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, Ludovico Ariosto, Michelangelo, and Benvenuto Cellini.

He also painted a Miracle of St. Anthony of Padua and a Saints Simon Stock and Anthony of Padua for a church in Trieste; a Raphael and the Fornarina for the Tosi Gallery, Venice ; a Cupid for the Brera Gallery in Milan; a Christ bearing the Cross ; a Christ Asleep; a Torquato Tasso reading to Eleonora; a Repose in Egypt (1824); a Venus and Cupid (1832); a Madonna (1854) ; a Raphael painting the Fornarina (1861); and a Holy Family (1864).

His wife, Regina Sfriza, died soon after Felice. His daughters Carolina and Julia were also painters, the former of landscapes, the latter of history and portraits. His brother Giovanni (1804–48) was also painter of mythology and history.

[ljiae]

— 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.

it seems that 𝙻𝙴𝙴 𝙹𝙸𝙰𝙴 has entered the scene ! she looks exactly like 𝙺𝙸𝙼 𝙹𝙸𝚆𝙾𝙽 . this 𝟹𝟻 𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁 𝙾𝙻𝙳 is the board member of 𝚃𝙷𝙴 ��𝚄𝙻𝙻𝙴𝚃𝙸𝙽 𝙲𝙾𝚁𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 . it’s a small wonder since she is 𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚂 & 𝙰𝙳𝚁𝙾𝙸𝚃 and 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝚃𝚁𝚄𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 & 𝙱𝚁𝚄𝚂𝚀𝚄𝙴. she has been involved with the company for 𝙴𝙻𝙴𝚅𝙴𝙽 years.

BASIC INFORMATION

name: lee jiae age: 35 sexual orientation: straight hometown: london, england gender + pronouns: cis-woman + she / her

FAMILY

father: simon lee ( deceased ), former ceo of bulletin corp. mother: park mikyung older sister: lee inhye, ceo of bulletin corp. younger brother: lee minkyu, board member of bulletin corp. ex-husband: tba ( wc on the main ! ) children: sophie lee-tba (7), evan lee-tba (5)

MIND

secondary school: st. paul's girls school undergraduate: university of cambridge, economics masters: king's college london, m.sc in management & organisational analysis doctorate: king's college london, dphil in management languages: korean, english, mandarin, japanese, spanish

CAREER

lee jiae has always been thoroughly adept in keeping her head down, and working. truly working. she had been proud to continue in the family business, to represent her father and their family in all the ways that matter —  not necessarily found in the society pages and arm-in-arm with a gaggle of famous friends, but a quiet force behind the scenes. sleepless nights discussing opportunities of expansion and potential deals to be made, she knows that numbers do not lie the way people do, and the only thing she truly trusts is the way black ink looks upon paper. one could always expect her emails to come from all hours of the night. the public could take her last name as it is; as the very reason for her position in the company and her rank amongst others, but those in the know understood that it is her relentless intelligence that makes her invaluable. jiae had always been comfortable in the thankless toil of neverending hard work. that is, until the matter of succession came to the forefront of her father's attention. jiae had never wanted acknowledgment for much — for it is always the numbers ( found in the company's stock value, in her own bank account, etc. ) that brought her pride and happiness. for the first time, jiae allowed herself to hope, to want something for once. surely, all her tireless hard work throughout the years should count for something ! but no. her older sister now wore the crown upon her brow, and the remnants of her own personal life ( something she always thought was a necessary sacrifice ) lay by the wayside. a broken marriage and a quiet house, a long career without anything to show for it —  jiae must find it within herself to continue in her usual quiet toil under the command of her sister, instead of her father. or perhaps this time, she will finally allow herself to scream.

OTHER HCS

a very traditional middle child, tries her best to do what she's supposed to and to excel as much as she could. constantly trying to impress her dad.

married in her late twenties, both with high strung careers in media, two kids followed ( one boy, one girl ). however, things finally came ahead after many nights of taking their stresses out on each other, a quick and efficient divorce followed. it all happened just a month before her dad's untimely death.

joint custody with her husband, although the kids mostly stay with her, if only for their stability. they still live in their family home overlooking hyde park.

she tries very hard to please her parents, to the detriment of her own personal life and relationships. her relationship with her siblings are extremely complicated, despite how much she loves them, the feeling of inferiority still remains.

always a strong drinker, but she has been relying on it lately to cope.

and other things idk for now but we'll figure it out !

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

Every year on July 16th is such a joyous occasion for all Carmelites throughout the world because we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of the Carmelite Order!  Pray with us as we joyfully prepare for this wonderful feast of our Lady.  And we pray in a special way for our sisters preparing to make their finals vows.

Each day we will meditate on one of the most beautiful prayers ever written, the Flos Carmeli (Latin for “Flower of Carmel”).  Tradition tells of St. Simon Stock praying with a passionate intensity to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel during a time of great distress and hardship for the Order. With fervor and faith, he prayed the Flos Carmeli prayer which he wrote, and Our Lady answered that prayer. Thus, for seven centuries the Flos Carmeli continues to be prayed to the Blessed Mother with the firm faith that she will answer its request with her powerful help.

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

Art Credit to Tyler Kirkham

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August 23, 2023

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[allaboutjoseph]

Jul 16 - Our Lady of Mount Carmel

1. Early History of the Carmelites

The Carmelite Order originated on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. They do not have a particular founder. Early historical accounts find Christian hermits already settled on Mount Carmel around the year 1200. The hermits dwelt near the fountain or well of Elijah. (You can read about Elijah on Mount Carmel in the 1st Book of Kings in the Bible.) In 1204, the hermits were given a Rule of life by St. Albert of Jerusalem.

2. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and The Brown Scapular Invasion by the Saracens caused the hermits to flee to Europe by the end of the 13th century. One of these hermits, St. Simon Stock, returned to his native England, entered the Carmelite order and was eventually named prior of his community. He appealed to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, the patroness of their order, on July 16, 1251, with the following prayer:Flower of Carmel, Blossoming vine, Splendor of Heaven, Mother Divine, None like to thee, Peerless and fair, Thy children of Carmel, Save by thy care, Star of the sea.The Blessed Virgin, accompanied many angels and the child Jesus, appeared to St. Simon Stock and presented him with the brown scapular. She made him this promise: “This shall be the privilege for you and for all Carmelites that whoever dies piously wearing this scapular, shall not suffer eternal flames.” The brown scapular is one of the most popular sacramentals in the Church. According to the Catechism, sacramentals are “sacred signs which bear a resemblance to the sacraments. They signify effects, particularly of a spiritual nature, which are obtained through the intercession of the Church. By them men are disposed to receive the chief effect of the sacraments, and various occasions in life are rendered holy”. CCC 1667

3. Carmelite Nuns The first community of Carmelite nuns was founded in Belgium in the 14th century. The nuns soon also spread throughout Europe. In 1534, St. Teresa of Avila, a great reformer and Doctor of the Church, entered the Carmel of the Incarnation in Avila, Spain. After almost three decades as a Carmelite nun, St. Teresa became convinced that the nuns had become too worldly and needed to return to the primitive rule of Carmel with its emphasis on silence, solitude, strict enclosure and a small, sisterly community life of manual labor, prayer, penance and joyful recreation, where all would strive to live “the evangelical counsels as perfectly as possible”. She founded the first monastery of Discalced Carmelite nuns under the patronage of St. Joseph in Avila, Spain.The Carmelite nuns have since spread throughout the world. The first monastery of Carmelite nuns in the United States was founded in 1790. Now there are 60 monasteries of Carmelite nuns in the U.S. alone. 

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us!

Source: CatholicLink | https://catholic-link.org/our-lady-of-mount-carmel/

[cruger2984]

The Pretty Cures and its Saints: Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure

In celebration of the franchise’s 20th anniversary, I have to share with you all with their birthday corresponding with feast days that is honored and recognized by the Roman Catholic Church!

September 20 - Sora Harewataru (Cure Sky)

St. Andrew Kim Taegon: 19th century Korean martyr who was first Korean-born Catholic priest. In the late 18th century, Roman Catholicism began to take root slowly in Korea, and was introduced by scholars who visited China and brought back Western books translated into Chinese. Born of yangban (a part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty), parents were converts and his father was subsequently martyred for practising Christianity, and after he baptized at 15, he studied at a seminary in Macau. Andrew also spent time in study at Lolomboy, Bocaue, Bulacan in the Philippines, where today he is also venerated. During his trip to Korea, Andrew is canonized as a saint by Pope St. John Paul II, along with 102 other Korean Martyrs, including Paul Chong Hasang on May 6, 1984.

July 16 - Mashiro Nijigaoka (Cure Prism)

Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Nuestra Señora del Carmen): A Marian title that is given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order (Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel), particularly within the Catholic Church. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the 'Lady of the place.' Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Simon Stock, a prior general of the order in 1251. She is honored as the patron of Chile, as well as protection from harm, dangerous situations and Purgatory.

May 21 - Tsubasa Yuunagi (Cure Wing)

St. Helena of Constantinople: 4th century empress and is known as the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, who is later a saint. Helena is honored as an important figure in the history of Christianity. In her final years, she made a religious tour of Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem, during which ancient tradition claims that she discovered the True Cross.

August 8 - Ageha Hijiri (Cure Butterfly)

St. Dominic de Guzmán: Spanish priest who is widely known as the founder of the Order of Preachers aka the Dominicans. According to one story, Dominic’s mother, Bl. Joan of Aza, made a pilgrimage to the Abbey at Silos, and dreamt that a dog leapt from her womb carrying a flaming torch in its mouth (it later becomes one of the saint’s attributes), and ’seemed to set the earth on fire.’ The spread of the Rosary, a Marian devotion, is attributed to Dominic’s teachings, and has it for centuries been at the heart of the Order. The Dominicans have been instrumental in spreading the rosary and emphasizing the Catholic belief in the power of the rosary for centuries. His major shrine can be found in Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna, and he is the patron of astronomers.

[galleryofart]

Torquato Fasso and Eleanore D'Este

Artist: Felice Schiavoni (Italian, 1803-1881)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1839

Media: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Felice Schiavoni

Felice Schiavoni was an Italian painter, depicting history, genre, and portraits. During his early career, he often collaborated with his father, the painter Natale Schiavoni.

Felice was born in Trieste. He was first a pupil of his father, and he then studied at the Brera Academy at Milan, where he won a prize, and later at Venice and Vienna. He was awarded a prize and medal by Emperor Nicholas of Russia.

He often painted in Venice for Russian patrons. Among his works are a Death of Raphael Sanzio painted during a period of 15 years for Emperor Alexander II of Russia, and for which he was paid 60 thousand Lire. The large canvas was an scholarly tour-de-force which included 16 portraits of famous Italian artists, assembled to grieve at the bedside of the dying painter, including Pierin del Vago, La Fornarina, Giulio Romano, Andrea Navagero, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, Ludovico Ariosto, Michelangelo, and Benvenuto Cellini.

He also painted a Miracle of St. Anthony of Padua and a Saints Simon Stock and Anthony of Padua for a church in Trieste; a Raphael and the Fornarina for the Tosi Gallery, Venice ; a Cupid for the Brera Gallery in Milan; a Christ bearing the Cross ; a Christ Asleep; a Torquato Tasso reading to Eleonora; a Repose in Egypt (1824); a Venus and Cupid (1832); a Madonna (1854) ; a Raphael painting the Fornarina (1861); and a Holy Family (1864).

His wife, Regina Sfriza, died soon after Felice. His daughters Carolina and Julia were also painters, the former of landscapes, the latter of history and portraits. His brother Giovanni (1804–48) was also painter of mythology and history.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.16 (before 1900)

622 – The Hijrah of Muhammad begins, marking the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece. 1054 – Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing a Papal bull (of doubtful validity) of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the formal start of the East–West Schism. 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain. 1228 – The canonization of Saint Francis of Assisi 1232 – The Spanish town of Arjona declares independence and names its native Muhammad ibn Yusuf as ruler. This marks the Muhammad's first rise to prominence; he would later establish the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, the last independent Muslim state in Spain. 1251 – Celebrated by the Carmelite Order–but doubted by modern historians–as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of the Virgin Mary. 1377 – King Richard II of England is crowned. 1536 – Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returns home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France. 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. 1683 – Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands. 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California. 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point. 1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act. 1809 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo. 1849 – Antonio María Claret y Clará founds the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. 1858 – The last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France. 1861 – American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war. 1862 – American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.

[emvidal]

"Simon founded other houses as the order began to grow but he faced many problems as the original 'solitary' ideal of the hermits changed towards the more communal approach of the mendicants. These weren't just internal problems, as older orders also resented the arrival of these newcomers with their own particular devotion to Mary."

[thepastisalreadywritten]

On July 16, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Mount Carmel is the mountain in the middle of the plain of Galilee on which the prophet Elijah called down a miracle of fire from the Lord to show the people of Israel who had strayed that "The Lord is God!" and that the prophets of Baal were worshipping a false god.

There is a tradition that traces the Carmelite Order's informal beginnings to the prophet Elijah himself, even though there is no evidence of this.

The formal beginnings are attributed to a group of monks who, in the 13th century, began living and praying on the mountain.

They venerated the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Mount Carmel and from this veneration was derived the name Carmelite.

In 1226, the rule of the order was approved by Pope Honorius III.

21 years later, St. Simon Stock, an Englishman, was elected superior of the order.

On 16 July 1251, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Simon and gave him the brown scapular and promised her protection to all those who wear the brown habit.

Pope Pius X decreed in the early 20th century that this blessing of the Blessed Virgin would extend to all who wear the medal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was instituted by the Carmelites sometime between 1376 and 1386.

[silvestromedia]

ST. ALEXANDER, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM AND MARTYR

St. Simon Stock. Although little is known about Simon Stock's early life, legend has it that the name Stock, meaning "tree trunk," derives from the fact that, beginning at age twelve, he lived as a hermit in a hollow tree trunk of an oak tree. It is also believed that, as a young man, he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land where he joined a group of Carmelites with whom he later returned to Europe. Simon Stock founded many Carmelite Communities, especially in University towns such as Cambridge, Oxford, Paris, and Bologna, and he helped to change the Carmelites from a hermit Order to one of mendicant friars. In 1254 he was elected Superior-General of his Order at London. Simon Stock's lasting fame came from an apparition he had in Cambridge, England, on July 16, 1251, at a time when the Carmelite Order was being oppressed. In it the Virgin Mary appeared to him holding the brown scapular in one hand. Her words were: "Receive, my beloved son, this scapular of thy Order; it is the special sign of my favor, which I have obtained for thee and for thy children of Mount Carmel. He who dies clothed with this habit shall be preserved from eternal fire. It is the badge of salvation, a shield in time of danger, and a pledge of special peace and protection." The scapular (from the Latin, scapula, meaning "shoulder blade") consists of two pieces of cloth, one worn on the chest, and the other on the back, which were connected by straps or strings passing over the shoulders. In certain Orders, monks and nuns wear scapulars that reach from the shoulders almost to the ground as outer garments. Lay persons usually wear scapulars underneath their clothing; these consist of two pieces of material only a few inches square. There are elaborate rules governing the wearing of the scapular: although it may be worn by any Catholic, even an infant, the investiture must be done by a priest. And the scapular must be worn in the proper manner; if an individual neglects to wear it for a time, the benefits are forfeited. The Catholic Church has approved eighteen different kinds of scapulars of which the best known is the woolen brown scapular, or the Scapular of Mount Carmel, that the Virgin Mary bestowed on Simon Stock.

St. Carantac, 5th-6th century. Welsh abbot and monastic founder, also called Carannog. Carantac founded a church at Llangrannog, Wales, spent time in Ireland, and upon returning to Wales founded a monastery at Cernach. He is associated with Crantock in Cornwall, and Carhampton in Somerset, England. He is also venerated in Brittany, France. He is sometimes identified with a Welsh prince, Carantac, an aide to St. Patrick.

St. Brendan, 583 A.D. St. Brendan died in 583. Born possibly in Tralee, Ireland, and educated by St. Ita and ordained by Bishop Erc, he became a monk and founded a large monastery at Clonfert. Many fantastic details have been added to this brief knowledge usually based on the fictional "Navigation" in which he is described as searching for the Isles of the Blessed, touching the Canaries, and even discovering America. It is possible that he actually made visits to Scotland and Wales

ST. UBALD, BISHOP OF GUBBIO

St. Hilary, Roman Catholic Priest Bishop of Pavia, Italy, who was a ferocious enemy of the Arian heresy.

[havnblog]

No, Apple — you’re not the main reason I buy Apple Products

In the court cases against Epic, this round of regulatory scrutiny from the EU, and other more, Apple has made their sense of entitlement abundantly clear. Every piece of business that happens on their platforms, is to their credit. And developers are lucky to be able to pay them almost a third of their revenue for the privilege of being on their platforms. If Apple understands that their relationship with developers is reciprocal, they hide it well.

I like all my Apple hardware. Heck, I even love some of it! I also like the operating systems, the general focus on privacy, and the way the different parts of the ecosystem work together. But I think I could enjoy a Framework laptop, Asus phone and some Sony earbuds as well! The things Apple makes and does isn’t the main reason I keep buying Apple products. It’s all the fantastic third-party developers, mostly indie, who make great software for the Apple platforms.

I know that Apple makes some great tools, APIs and frameworks to make this happen — so I’m not saying they shouldn’t get anything for their trouble. But this idea that it’s a one-way street, where only Apple gives other companies business, just feels so wrong to me.

So even though I know neither Tim Apple nor any other Apples, will read this post, I feel the need to give shout-outs to some people Apple is at the mercy of.

Great third-party software

Most of these apps are what I would call indie apps — but not all of them. 1 And I think most of them are only available on Apple platforms currently — but they might be available on, or on the way to, other platforms. I’ve tried all of them, but don’t necessarily use them regularly — but I do use many of them! I’ll also try to give social links to the devs I know — but you are welcome to contact me if some are missing or wrong!

A stock Mac, without utilities like these, feels broken to me:

Bartender, by Surtees Studios, keeps my menu bar tidy and good-looking, and Default Folder X, by St. Clair Software upgrades my open and close dialogs.

My trackpad becomes much more useful thanks to BetterTouchTool by Andreas Hegenberg of Folivora.ai, and all my keyboards do the same through Karabiner-Elements by pqrs/Takayama Fumihiko and Keyboard Maestro by Stairways Software.

Paste, by a small team based in Denmark, is my favourite clipboard manager — but Tapbot’s Pastebot, is also great. (Give Paul, Mark and Todd a follow!)

But I would probably be able to live with just using the integrated clipboard manager in Raycast, an outstanding launcher with a rich extension ecosystem. But Alfred, by Andrew and Vero Pepperrell, and LaunchBar, by Objective Development is also good! I do use Raycast for window management, though. However, if I didn’t, I would’ve been well served by things like Magnet (Crowd Café), Moom (Peter Maurer and Rob Griffiths of Many Tricks), Rectangle (Ryan Hanson) , Amethyst (Ian Ynda-Hummel) or Yabai (Åsmund Vikane)! (And John Siracusa makes some apps for the particular of us.)

Noodlesoft’s Hazel keeps my files tidy, Anybox holds my bookmarks, my board game collection is in Classifier by App Deco, and my digital games are in GameTrack. Menuwhere (Many Tricks again!) makes sure the top menu is always within reach.

PopClip by Nick Moore and SnippetsLab by Renfei Song help me manipulate text, Photomator manipulates photos, and what the geniuses over at Rogue Amoeba can do to manipulate sound, is simply remarkable (I especially like SoundSource and Audio Hijack!)

Some do wood working as a hobby — I do development

And even though I’m very far from being at a professional level, I really like the Zed code editor by the team behind Atom. Panic also has some great software, in Transmit, the Nova editor, and the new Prompt terminal. iTerm , by George Nachman is also good — but my favourite terminal app is Warp. And if I had coded more on my iPad, I probably would’ve used Runestone, by Simon Støvring, and Working Copy more! Oh, and my favourite browser, is Arc by The Browser Company — and if I’m there, in Safari or in Firefox, Jeff Johnson helps me StopTheMadness.

But there’s even more great ways to write notes and other texts

NotePlan, by Eduard Metzger is both my notes app and task manager, and I journal in Everlog by Wessley Roche. But I could very well have taken notes in Bear (Shiny Frog), Craft, Bike Outliner (Jesse Grosjean) or **Taio **(by the developer who also makes MarkEdit)! (Quick shout-out to Obsidian and Logseq as well — even though they are cross-platform.)

Text that I won’t save, starts in Drafts by Greg Pierce, while I write blog posts and more in Ulysses by a team based in Germany. (But MarsEdit, by Daniel Jalkut also supports Micro.blog!) And if I feel the need for a post-it note, I might jot something down in Tot, by Iconfactory, or do some calculations in Soulver by Acqualia Software.

(I’d love to be able to write my emails in Mimestream — but they have got to get on that JMAP support!)

There are also lots of great calendar apps and task managers

Since I have most my tasks in NotePlan, I don’t use other task managers as much. But I sometimes use GoodTask, as it uses the Reminders.app database, but gives a more powerful interface. Things 3, by Cultured Code and Omnifocus by The Omni Group is also great.

If you’re a calendar power user, Fantastical, by Flexibits, is where it’s at. I’m not, so I really like BusyCal, by Busy Apps, that sits somewhere between Fantastical and Calendar.app. I also have a soft spot for n.spektor’s Calendar 366.

Most of these have good mobile clients — but here are some other mobile favourites

Dark Noise, by Charlie Chapman, is a good noisemaker, and Callsheet by Casey Liss is what IMDB would be if it was made by someone who really cares.

His ATP buddy, Marco Arment, makes the app that’s active the most hours on my phone: Overcast And I check the IK Start og Arsenal scores with FotMob.

My favourite calculator, is the weirdly named SC-323PU by Thomas Öllinger., but PCalc by James Thomson is also great.

If I checked the weather in other ways than finding out when I step outside, I could’ve used apps like Carrot Weather by Brian Mueller or Mercury Weather by Triple Glazed Studios. (Here’s a pro tip from me: I use the Yr app, which is a weather app paid for by the Norwegian government — and it’s pretty great, and available in English!) And if I saved recipies, I could use Croutonby Devin Davies or Mela by Silvio Rizzi.

Silvio has also made a great way to experience RSS, with Reeder. NetNewsWire by Brent Simmons is another good option, while my personal favourite is Lire.

iOS also has some fantastic social media apps. I still miss Apollo, by Christian Selig, and Reddit’s policies have made me more or less quit the service. But Narwhal is pretty good if you still use it! Gluon, by Vincent Ritter is my preferred way to browse Micro.blog (also check out his Scribbles project!) For Mastodon, there’s an embarrassment of riches: Mona, Ivory (Tapbots), Mammoth and Icecubes (Thomas Ricouard), to name a few!

And that’s not even mentioning the cross-platform stuff that Apple’s platforms would be way less attractive without. (Looking at you, Vision Pro.) I enjoy YouTube Premium, my main music player is Spotify (testing Tidal currently, though), my main chat app is Telegram (by far the best user experience for personal and group chats!). While these don’t keep me on Apple platforms, the absence of them would’ve pushed away.

Again, Apple does deserve tons of cash and credit — but not all of it. People like the mentioned developers are the main reason I buy Apple products — and not Apple themselves.

And people’s definition of «indie» varies! ↩︎