Ok, so it’s the middle of February, 2016 and I haven’t published my yearly “best of” lists for 2015. I had drafts started in November, but life happens.
apps, macappstore, review
I tweeted about the 2.5.3 release of Marked 2 a couple of months ago. Overall, it’s been a popular update, but a mysterious crash for a non-trivial portion of users consumed some time. I’ve finally solved it1, and pushed out the 2.5.4 update to direct customers. A note for MAS customers in a bit.
markdown, marked
This is an in-case-you-didn’t-already-know tip, and is probably common knowledge to anyone who started writing YouTube scripts after v3 of the YouTube API came out. The gist is that in addition to the tiny thumbnail images that have always been available at a url containing the video id, you can also get a range of qualities and sizes.
code
Day One 2 is out1, and I’m very happy to say that the team there has offered an easy way to keep Slogger working with it. If you’re not familiar with either, check out Day One on the App Store and Slogger in my projects.
macos, slogger
Workflows for animated GIFs (Jan 19th) If you want to use animated GIFs on a blog, or already are, here are some tips for capturing, editing, and optimizing them. I updated the GIF tag plugin for Jekyll as well. Quick reminders from Terminal (Jan 22nd) A Bash script for creating quick, short-term alerts/reminders while working in Terminal. HoudahSpot 4.1 (Jan 25th) My very late review of the update to this excellent file searching tool for Mac. Macstock 2016 (Jan 26th) I’m…
recap
I always loved attending Macworld, and almost entirely because of the people I’d meet and friends I’d see. Until yesterday, I thought the days we could all get together for some Mac love with a ton of my favorite Mac people were over. Then I was informed that a new conference (this is the second year) called Macstock was running. I’m so out of the loop.
conference
