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    "title": "Jim Mitchell",
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    "description": "Simple thoughts, written simply.",
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/07/06/787-post/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/07/06/787-post/",
            "content_html": "<p>I'm excited to share that Cache Out v1.5.0 was released yesterday. This version adds these features:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added support for cleaning Zen, Helium, and Wavebox.</li>\n<li>New Reopen browsers after cleaning preference to relaunch the browsers Cache Out quit.</li>\n<li>New Advanced settings tab, including the option to exclude specific cleanup options from Enable All.</li>\n<li>Cache Out now registers itself in the Full Disk Access pane, so you can grant access without dragging the app in manually.</li>\n<li>Fixed Chromium downloads reappearing in history after being cleared.</li>\n<li>More reliable detection of which browsers are running when a cleanup starts.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https://cacheout.app\">Cache Out</a> site to learn more.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-07-06T15:28:01Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-07-06T15:28:38Z",
            "title": "Cache Out v1.5.0 Released",
            "summary": "I'm excited to share that an update to Cache Out was released yesterday, adding new browser support along with several other enhancements."
        },
        {
            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/07/06/786/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/07/06/786/",
            "content_html": "<p>I keep hoping that one day the iOS engineering team will quietly sneak in a setting that allows us minimalists to completely hide the Home Screen dock, or at the very least, turn off the background for it. I know it'll never happen, but a guy can dream can't he?</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-07-06T15:23:43Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-07-06T15:23:43Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/07/01/785/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/07/01/785/",
            "content_html": "<p>I'm working on some new additions to Cache Out that I hope to release soon. The first is a setting to relaunch all browsers that were open before cleaning, and the second setting lets a user bypass their choice of options when clicking the Enable All button. I'll be adding support for two or three requested browsers too.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://cacheout.app\">https://cacheout.app</a></p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-07-01T14:12:16Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-07-01T14:12:16Z"
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        {
            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/30/784/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/30/784/",
            "content_html": "<p>A couple of automative milestones I neglected to mention from the weekend...</p>\n<p>First, my 2024 Toyota Camry Hybrid hit an average of 43 mpg after sitting at 42.9 forever.</p>\n<p>Second, the loan for it is now fully paid off.</p>\n<p>This <strong>will</strong> be the last car I own.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-30T14:18:12Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-30T14:18:12Z"
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/30/783/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/30/783/",
            "content_html": "<p>31,536,000 seconds and counting...</p>\n<p>Today is a milestone date. One full year since heart surgery.</p>\n<p>Life has returned to normal for the most part. The only real lingering issue I have is the occasional swelling of my left ankle.</p>\n<p>I'm thankful for each and every one of those seconds. It means my heart is still pumping.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-30T12:16:00Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-30T14:05:45Z"
        },
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/26/782/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/26/782/",
            "content_html": "<p>I'm foolishly taking another crack at getting the holder of the jimmitchell.net domain to sell to me. I'm not going to get my hopes up, but it's worth a shot, because, why not, right?</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-26T15:12:37Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-26T15:12:37Z"
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/22/781/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/22/781/",
            "content_html": "<p>I've been a paid supporter of BBEdit all the way through v15, but I think I'm going to try the &quot;free&quot; version 16 at work for a while to see if I'm missing anything locked by a license code. If there is, I'm sure I'll update. Love the app that much. I'm sticking with v15 for home use in the meantime.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-22T18:43:42Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-22T18:43:42Z"
        },
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/22/busy-busy-busy/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/22/busy-busy-busy/",
            "content_html": "<p>It's been a while since I last posted, but I've been a busy little bee, working on a few different projects...</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>An update to <a href=\"https://cacheout.app\">Cache Out</a> is imminent, which includes support for the Vivaldi, Arc, and Dia browsers, as well as several other tweaks both above and below the hood. The popularity of the app is slowly growing -- which is nice given that I've barely even marketed it so far.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Progress on <a href=\"https://jimmitchell.org/yasu/\">Yasu</a> is moving along nicely. It's radically different than the original was, but the new version is also more powerful, borrowing a few of the lessons I've learned from Cache Out. I'm taking my time to be sure it's just right. I hope for a 1.0 relaunch by the end of July, if not sooner.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>I've begun work on an iOS/iPadOS app to track RV maintenance and trips since I haven't found one I like well enough. I hope to really focus on it for an App Store release once I get Cache Out and Yasu to places I'm happy with.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>My <a href=\"https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/omnifocus-task-sync\">OmniFocus Task Sync plugin</a> broke 100 downloads on the Obsidian community last week. That was a cool milestone.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>There are always small tweaks I'm making to my blog platform <a href=\"https://github.com/jimmitchell/clodd-cms\">Clodd</a>. The tweaks are nothing huge, but I'm slowly refactoring stuff, trying to get those few extra milliseconds of performance out of it.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>And finally, I need to give a little love to my <a href=\"https://jimmitchell.org/tinylytics-wp-plugin/\">Tinylytics WordPress</a> plugin. It's been a while since I last updated it, and there are a couple of features I think I could add. This one's on the to do list, but keeps getting bumped by the stuff above.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Otherwise, life is good, and I have no complaints. It's nice to have some focus.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-22T14:34:54Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-23T13:57:46Z",
            "title": "Busy, Busy, Busy",
            "summary": "I've had a productive few weeks at the expense of my blog being silent. Here's an update on a few of the projects that have been taking up my time."
        },
        {
            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/12/779/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/12/779/",
            "content_html": "<p>So yeah... I've decided I'm going to resurrect Yasu with a whole new modern take on the app. Huzzah!</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-12T19:15:30Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-12T19:15:30Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/10/it-seems-like-forever/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/10/it-seems-like-forever/",
            "content_html": "<p>It's been nearly two months since I last posted anything of substance to my blog. Life has been a whirlwind with the new promotion. Between that, the new app I've been working on, and other life stuff, it's been go, go, go. I somehow managed an afternoon without any meetings today, so I thought I'd take a few minutes to write.</p>\n<p>First, the promotion transition is going well. I was thrown into the deep end of the pool with very little guidance, which is okay with me. I'm the type who learns by failing once or twice. I'd rather do it my way than someone else's. Getting up to speed with my new direct reports and the projects they're working on has been like drinking from a firehose. There's been a whole new level of meetings too. I don't get to do hands on much now. I'm not sure how I feel about it.</p>\n<p>I spent all last week in Bentonville, Arkansas. Since VIZIO is owned by Walmart, I got to go the home office for their Associate's Week celebration. I've worked for &quot;big&quot; companies in the past, but Walmart is a machine. The new campus is quite impressive and very modern. I had the opportunity to meet several people I've been working with virtually for the last year and a half too. Oh, and I got to swing a golf club for the first time at a team building outing. I think I'm hooked.</p>\n<p>I've been grinding really hard on my new Mac app, <a href=\"https://cacheout.app\">Cache Out</a>, for the last month. I started work on it more than six months ago, and as I saw it beginning to take shape, it became more and more of an obsession. I'm really pleased with where it's ended up and I'm looking forward to where it's headed. Keep an eye on it if you're a Mac user who uses different browsers and would like to use a tool for clearing caches, history, downloads, etc. easily.</p>\n<p>The Cache Out work has me thinking about resurrecting <a href=\"https://jimmitchell.org/yasu/\">Yasu</a> too…</p>\n<p>In between, I released an <a href=\"https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/omnifocus-task-sync\">Obsidian to OmniFocus task sync</a> plugin. It already has a small user base that's slowly building. I'm kind of proud of how this one turned out. I use it almost every day and it's been a huge time saver. That's all that matters.</p>\n<p>I'm coming up on the anniversary of my <a href=\"https://jimmitchell.org/2025/06/07/widow-maker/\">CABG X4</a> on June 30, 2026. It's amazing to think that it's already been a year. I'm back to the crazy life I was living prior and it almost seems like it never even happened -- if it weren't for the scar on my chest I look at every day in the mirror. I thank God for the new lease on life every single day.</p>\n<p>My wife is going on month three of her retirement. She's happier than she's ever been and is really glad she made the choice. So am I. Life has been pretty good lately.</p>\n<p>That's enough of a brain dump. There's more happening, and this is the top of mind things. Hopefully it won't be another two months before I publish more than just a handful of words.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-10T21:44:00Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-10T21:45:36Z",
            "title": "It Seems Like Forever",
            "summary": "It's been a really busy month and I can't remember the last time I published a post about life in general."
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/10/777/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/10/777/",
            "content_html": "<p>I've made some serious progress on Cache Out over the last week, <a href=\"https://cacheout.app/changelog\">releasing v1.3.0</a> this morning. I've also defined a solid roadmap that will take me through v1.5.0 and beyond. It feels great to be developing a Mac app again.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-10T15:08:55Z",
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/08/why-i-built-cache-out-a-macos-app-for-clearing-browser-caches/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/08/why-i-built-cache-out-a-macos-app-for-clearing-browser-caches/",
            "content_html": "<p>If you've read along for any amount of time, you may or may not know that I once developed a Mac application named <a href=\"https://jimmitchell.org/yasu/\">Yasu</a> (short for &quot;Yet another system utility) that was pretty popular back in the day when Mac OS needed a utility to clean the cruft that built up over time.</p>\n<p>I turned that application over to another developer back in 2017 (nearly 10 years ago now!), and he never did anything with it. I may have to resurrect it again, but that's a whole different story. Maybe more on it at a later date.</p>\n<p>Anyway, one of the nice features of Yasu was the ability to remove the cache, browsing history, download history, favicons and cookies for the web browsers installed on your system all at once.</p>\n<p>In the web development work I do, I often want to clear these files from the browsers I test with in order to start fresh. Just like everyone else, I find having to go into the settings for each browser to accomplish this a major pain.</p>\n<p>This is what led me to create my new Mac app, <a href=\"https://cacheout.app\">Cache Out</a>. Just like Yasu, it clears all of the files in one go, but it lets you select which browsers you want to do it for, rather than performing a nuclear purge. It's also smart enough to know exactly what supported browsers you have installed on your computer.</p>\n<p>Cache Out works for all of the browsers with at least 1% marketshare -- plus Orion because I use it myself. I have plans to add support for other lesser known browsers too like Helium, Wavebox, Openin, Velja, and Anybox soon.</p>\n<p>Cache Out is a free <a href=\"https://buymeacoffee.com/jim.mitchell\">donationware</a> app because I believe in giving back to the Mac community.</p>\n<p>A lot of people don't realize it, but there are significant out of pocket costs when it comes to developing applications for the Mac. If a developer offers their app freely, but asks for donations, you should consider donating something to them. Not only does it make them feel appreciated, it helps offset the developer membership that's needed to publish apps.</p>\n<p>This is in no way a plea for Cache Out donations. I'm at a place in life where I don't need them -- though I do appreciate them when I get them. I'm just asking that you consider supporting the hard work of developers if you're in a position to.</p>\n<p>It's been fun to learn SwiftUI with this project. I'm looking forward to developing other apps that scratch my own needs too. And that, dear reader, is the reason I created <a href=\"https://cacheout.app\">Cache Out</a> to begin with.</p>\n<p>Happy to hear feedback or take feature requests.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-08T20:25:42Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-09T17:30:08Z",
            "title": "Why I Built Cache Out, a macOS App for Clearing Browser Caches",
            "summary": "I've spent the last six months working on a new Mac app that clears browser caches, browsing history, download history, favicons and cookies for the top browsers. This is why I did it."
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/04/775/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/06/04/775/",
            "content_html": "<p>I hit my first golf ball today at a team building outing. All things considered, I did alright. I think I might have to do it again...</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-06-04T19:22:31Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-04T19:22:31Z"
        },
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/05/28/774/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/05/28/774/",
            "content_html": "<p>I'm slowly making progress on my new Mac app, and am nearly at the point I need to reactivate my Apple Developer account. It's a simple app really, but I think it might be useful to those who want to quickly clean up files for multiple browsers in one fell swoop. I know I'll find use from it.</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-05-28T20:20:33Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-05-28T20:20:33Z"
        },
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            "id": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/05/26/773/",
            "url": "https://jimmitchell.org/2026/05/26/773/",
            "content_html": "<p>That feeling when a team gets all the way through that high profile project only to learn that a crucial operational step was never taken into consideration by anyone, making that cool new &quot;time-saving&quot; feature virtually unusable... 🫤</p>\n",
            "date_published": "2026-05-26T20:48:12Z",
            "date_modified": "2026-05-26T20:48:12Z"
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