Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.

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A Mise guide for Swift developers

In this blog post we share how to use Mise to install, activate, and share tools to enhance Swift development.

I switched to Mise (en place) a while ago and have loved it as a replacement for asdf. But I haven’t made good use of its task runners and other features, so this blog post was a good reminder of some of its advanced capabilities.

TextIndex — Matt Gemmell

A lightweight syntax for creating indexes in Markdown.

This is pretty cool, and represents some good syntax choices for extending Markdown.

MindMap AI: Create AI-Powered Mind Maps Instantly
This looks pretty great. I haven’t tried it yet, but with a pro plan under $10/mo and a basic plan under $5, if it works as well as I’ve read, I could become a subscriber.

Create instant AI-powered mind maps with MindMap AI. Featuring Copilot Chat, co-creation, multi-format input, and easy sharing. Revolutionize your brainstorming process today!

Read a good review here.

Notepad.exe - Your Developer’s Playground
This looks really cool for experimenting with Swift and Python. More languages to come. Similar to CodeRunner but with additional features (like AI).

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