# Dr. Drang

> Dr. Drang is the pseudonymous engineer behind 'And now it's all this,' the long-running blog at leancrew.com where he posts small, fully-explained scripts that bend macOS to his will. By day he is a practicing civil and mechanical engineer with a Ph.D. in stress and structural analysis; by night he writes Python in BBEdit, glues apps together with AppleScript and Shortcuts, and walks readers through every line of code. His pen name is an engineering in-joke - 'Drang' is German for stress - and he has guarded his anonymity for over two decades to keep his consulting clients from finding his musings on math, music, and Mac automation.

- **Role:** Consulting engineer and author of 'And now it's all this' (leancrew.com)
- **Organizations:** leancrew.com / And now it's all this
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Ph.D. in engineering (emphasis in stress and structural analysis)
- **Known for:** Built and maintains 'And now it's all this,' one of the most respected independent Mac automation blogs, running since 2004, 45 public GitHub repositories with a combined following of ~490+ developers, GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor and Starstruck badges

## Career timeline

- **1990s-present** — Works as a practicing civil and mechanical engineer, focused on figuring out why structures and machines fail
- **2004** — Begins blogging at 'And now it's all this' under the pseudonym Dr. Drang
- **2012** — Featured in 512 Pixels' 'Writers I Read' series and Macdrifter's writer workflow profile
- **2013** — Interviewed by CodeProject in 'A Coder Interview With Dr. Drang'
- **2019** — Guest on Relay FM's Automators podcast (episode 21) discussing invoicing, writing, and regular expressions
- **2022** — Rewrites his Python 'applescript' module to work with Python 3
- **2025** — Still publishing - posts Markdown link scripts for BBEdit in October

## Achievements

- Built and maintains 'And now it's all this,' one of the most respected independent Mac automation blogs, running since 2004
- 45 public GitHub repositories with a combined following of ~490+ developers
- GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor and Starstruck badges
- Authored widely-shared open tools: te-url-snippets, tp-planner, drtwoot, archive-tweets, notes
- Wrote and open-sourced a Python 'applescript' module bridging Python and AppleScript via subprocess

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Published 'Markdown link scripts for BBEdit,' AppleScripts that call Python utilities via do shell script
- **2022-06** — Released an updated AppleScript module for Python 3

## Links

- Website: https://leancrew.com/all-this/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/drdrang
- GitHub: https://github.com/drdrang

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Last updated: 2026-06-03