Recently a few of my bookmarklets broke due to conflicts in the way GitHub serves raw gists and Chrome security settings. I’ve moved all of the gists that the bookmarklets previously loaded from GitHub to my own server and updated the main bookmarklet code.
bookmarklet, bullseye, grablinks, markdown, marker, scripting
This is a tale of woe — spawned from a navigational “disability” — and redemption via technology. It has very little point, but I feel like documenting it. Take it as you will.
ios, personal
Thanks to Assistant.io for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. I’ve fallen in love with this service for scheduling any kind of meeting (or my podcast) and encourage anyone who schedules anything with other people to check it out!
Sponsor: PDFpen for iPad (Jun 12th) With the addition of Transporter support, PDFpen for iPad is better than ever. Thanks to Smile and PDFpen for sponsoring brettterpstra.com this week! Fast, fuzzy directory navigation for Tag Filer (Jun 12th) For users of my Tag Filing system, here’s a fast way to jump around your tagged folders from the command line. Web Excursions for June 13th and June 17th Lots going on out there on the web these days… Systematic 101 with Jordan…
recap
My wife Aditi is a professional dog trainer, and I absorb a lot of information just being around her. She studies animal behavior and researches constantly to provide training that is based on science, not television shows. This post was inspired by her, as well as a movie I’ll talk about in a minute. It’s a strong departure from my usual fare. I don’t apologize for that, as I think more people need to know about these things.
dogs, personal, training
I was joined this week by Jordan Cooper. He’s a comedian, web marketer and general internet guy. I had mentioned in episode 100 with Merlin Mann that I’d played a show at a venue called The Temple in Brooklyn, and it turned out that Jordan was the one who booked that show. Small world.
podcast, systematic
This script provides an easy way to jump around the filesystem if (and only if) you’re using my Tag Filer system. In that system, you tag main “context” folders with “=Tagname,” and target subfolders (project folders) with “@projecttag.” The Tag Filing system allows me to tag individual files and folders with a “#Tagname” (target context) and “:project:chain” tags to have Hazel automatically move them to their destination and maintain both a shallow folder system and a tag-based search…
scripting, tagfiler, tagging, terminal, work
Sponsor: Doxie Portable Scanners (Jun 5th) A big thanks to Doxie and their line of amazing portable scanners for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. Systematic 99 with Dave Hamilton and Moisés Chiullan (Jun 5th) Episode 99 of Systematic was broadcast from WWDC at New Relic studios with an unprecedented number of special guests (I’ve never had more than one…). Even better random filenames (Jun 9th) It started here with a script that used the Aspell dictionary to create…
recap, systematic
Episode 100! I was joined by Merlin Mann-about-town for this anniversary episode. It was a great talk about WWDC and Apple, sleep habits and some fun top picks. Don’t take my word for it, go check out the show at 5by5!
podcast, systematic
This is an evolution of the random filename generator I posted last week. Based on comments from BrianEnigma, this script allows you to specify “starts with” arguments to get an adjective and a noun using the WordNet dictionaries.
lipsum, scripting, terminal
Thanks to everyone who entered, and congrats to the winners. If you didn’t win, I highly recommend checking it out anyway. It’s immensely useful in a broad range of applications, and only $6.99 on the Mac App Store.
giveaway
It’s been a busy week, and I’ll be writing up my WWDC thoughts and a couple of TUAW posts after a plane ride today. In the meantime, I made you a thing.
lipsum, scripting, terminal
