Dirk Holtwick

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  1. Receipts Space 3.6

    An update with improvements to everyday workflows. Here’s a quick overview of the key changes.Smarter Category SettingsFor recognized contacts, you can now define how a category is made: from the most frequently used category, from the category of the most recent receipt, or not at all. In addition, each contact can be assigned a fixed default category that always takes precedence.Re-run RecognitionTwo new commands re-apply recognition to the selected receipts: either the searchable text layer…

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  2. PDFify 5.0 — sharper OCR, smarter compression, bonjour French

    Tesseract 5 OCR, optimized for Apple Silicon. We’ve upgraded to the latest Tesseract engine and tuned it specifically for M-series Macs. The result is faster recognition und better accuracy.Apple Vision OCR with automatic language detection. No more picking a language before you scan. PDFify figures out what it’s looking at and gets to work — whether it’s a German contract, a Chinese manual, or an English research paper.Compression, redesigned around four clear modes. Get full control over the…

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  3. Me, the AI, and Our Sandbox

    A hands-on report about using the bx sandbox for macOS, with a special focus on AI and VSCode.

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  4. AI Coding Tools in a Sandbox: Why Your File System Needs Protection

    AI coding tools like Claude Code or Copilot have full access to your file system. bx protects everything except the current project directory with a single command.

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  5. EU funding for open source software through a performance-based platform

    Proposal for an EU platform that funds open-source projects using measurable criteria, benefiting developers, the EU, and society.

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