Sponsor: Dream Hosting (May 15th) Thanks to this week’s sponsor, Dream Hosting, for helping to support brettterpstra.com. Great support, 99.9% uptime and one-click installs make it a solid and affordable web hosting choice. tmux even easier: tm with fuzzy completion (May 15th) Last week I introduced a shell script that would automatically connect to/create tmux sessions by name. This script adds fuzzy tab-completion for the easiest command line tmux experience! iThoughts updated…
recap
This week’s episode was with the lively Phillip Broughton, the health physicist from UC Berkely who brought us Black Blood of the Earth, the cold-pressed and ultra-caffeinated coffee mentioned on a couple of previous episodes.
podcast, systematic
DuckDuckGo, my search engine of choice, has updated. Same great privacy, same great instant answers, same great keyboard navigation, but all new presentation and smarter features.
privacy, search
iThoughts , the most powerful mind mapping app on iOS, has been updated (well, re-released, really) with a bevy of new features. It’s now a universal app (both iPhone and iPad), and requires a new purchase. At the $2 US intro price, though, there’s really no reason for anyone to not grab it.
ios, ipad, iphone, mindmapping, review
You may have seen the “fuzzy” Bash completion I linked to in my post yesterday. I applied the same technique to my utility for completing tmux session and window names.
terminal, tmux
Here’s a (relatively) simple shell function for navigating up the tree from your current working directory. It was inspired by bd, but I got frustrated with some aspects (and the fact that it’s not really OS X-compatible anymore).
scripting, terminal
Matthew Ward writes reviews of audio listening equipment for Macworld and TechHive. He knows his stuff. What I found most interesting was his ability — despite being an “audiophile” — to look beyond price and find true quality in inexpensive products. I could stand to learn a thing or two about that.
podcast, systematic
I first mentioned Yoink back in 2011, and I’ve run it every day since. It’s a small utility that shows up when you start dragging files and gives you a convenient shelf to collect them on until you’re ready to drag them out into another folder or application. It’s extremely handy.
apps, appstore, giveaway, macos
Thanks to everyone who entered, and best of luck honing your Vim skills. If you didn’t win a copy of Painless Vim, go buy one. It’s an excellent way to get acquainted with a very powerful editor. It also now includes a very well-designed and quick-to-scan cheat sheet. It’s one of the most helpful I’ve seen.
books, giveaway
I’ve updated Marky the Markdownifier with a few key fixes and improvements. It’s getting more and more traffic and has some dedicated users, so it seemed like it was about time to solve some of the more annoying issues. It still needs a usability overhaul and some kind of iOS solution, but these issues were the ones that bothered me the most.
markdown, markdownifier, marky, multimarkdown
I don’t know yet if this project is going any further, but I thought I’d share what I’ve been experimenting with. It occurred to me — after a couple dozen request for “can you make a PopClip extension for this?” — that I could probably put the power in the hands of people who aren’t necessarily comfortable editing PLIST files. I present PopMaker.
popclip, popmaker, video
