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upgrade episode 288 today's show is brought to you by Doordash, Pingdom and Previs Pro. My name is Mike Hurley and I'm joined by Jason Snell. Hi Jason Snell

Hello Mike Hurley how are you? Fine and dandy friend, I have a hashtag snow talk question for you.

Mm-hmm.

This one comes from Doug, and Doug is alerting our audience that spring is coming.

So thank you Doug for doing that, but that isn't Doug's question.

Doug's question is, Jason, do you have any digital spring cleaning routines?

My current plan is to go through my photo library and clean out nonsense photos.

Well, the short version of his no. I don't have a spring cleaning

ritual for digital things. I do try sometimes to clean things like physically clean things in my house and pick things up and stuff but

but I do have a cleaning robot that does all my cleaning for me

sort of all year round, which is, yeah, exactly. So I am a late comer to Hazel by Noodle Soft, which is a great Mac utility. But I did get into it last year and I wrote a post about

on six colors that we can link to and I have started to use Hazel in a bunch of different places to do a bunch of different tasks.

So like my article on six colors is about how I use it on my server where my, because I'm a Mac mini with a giant you know raid array

attached to it sure and that's where all my podcast archives go and Hazel is

running on that Mac mini and it's patrolling and it for certain podcasts that are

timely that are not archival in any way it waits a period of time a month or two and

then it just deletes them it's like I don't need that anymore.

For the ones that I want to save it like the incomparable in case I need to

pull it back out of the archive for an anniversary show or an end of year show.

It waits. show or an end of year show, it waits, I think a month, and then it compresses it all, so it takes

up less disk space.

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