Oct 28
2011

One for the coders: I discovered CodeRunner by Nikolai Krill a few months back, and it’s proven to be very, very useful in the kind of work that I do. It allows you to test blocks of code and see the results quickly and easily. It has syntax highlighting and autocompletion, as well as the ability to handle a wide variety of languages.

May 20
2011

It starts out with mdfind and all of the creative scripting you can do with it. You start finding batches of files with something in common and you do things with them or to them. It sounds genocidal; it’s not. It’s very productive after the initial script setup.

Take, for example, a little script I run to add thumbnails to weblocs I have laying around. It looks something like this:

Mar 06
2010

Update: If you’re looking for a Markdown -> Evernote, check this out.

Another post, quickly and with less explanation…

The fact that Evernote processes HTML so much better than it does plain or rich text got me thinking and tinkering. I use Markdown (actually, MultiMarkdown) constantly, and it does a great job of turning plain text into valid markup…

Dec 31
2009

Download the Evaluate Expression Snow Leopard service: EvaluateExpressionService.zip

This is a stripped down version of a command I have in the TextMate bundle we use at TUAW. It allows you to select any basic numeric equation and evaluate it, replacing the selected text with the results. It will ignore your text if it contains anything but numbers and basic mathematical symbols…