I made a thing I think is pretty cool. It’s an indeterminate progress indicator for use in your scripts, inspired by the way Cursor indicates it’s working.
cli, ruby, scripting
Thanks to SaneBox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! Rather than the typical sponsored post, I’ve opened up the blog to a guest post from SaneBox’s Thomas Yuan. Not a typical thing for me, but I’m a huge fan of SaneBox and Thomas’ tools are a perfect fit for my readers (and my own preferences). Please enjoy!
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($149.99 value each) for Summit. Summit is an elegant tool for making the most of meetings, from building agendas to keeping meetings on track with timers and other tools. If you’re in charge of meeting planning, whether for work or your personal clubs and groups, you should check Summit out. (Also available for Windows.)
giveaway, macos
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($29.99 value each) for Trickster. I was wrong, the series continues for at least one more app. You know how handy “Open recent file” is in your favorite apps? What if you could have that, but for every file you’ve recently interacted with? That’s what Trickster does, putting all your recent files in your menu bar, whether you recently read it in Preview, downloaded it from a website, or just had it open in any application…
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Thanks to Eternal Storms for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve long been a fan of Yoink and ScreenFloat, so I highly recommend taking advantage of this offer!
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I’ve been playing around with a free app called Leader Key from @mikker, and realized it could be used very effectively with Bunch. It takes a little manual setup, but it’s not hard.
bunch, launcher, leaderkey
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 4 licenses ($8.99 value each) for Yoink. This might be the last app in the series, I think — it’s been a good run (for over a year and a half!). Eternal Storms software is offering 4 licenses for their excellent utility, Yoink. Yoink puts a shelf on your desktop to which you can drag items, and then drag them out later. Why? It allows you to collect files from different places to move, copy, or otherwise act on all at once, and it can…
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