I was joined on Systematic this week by Nick Honko, a med student with a background in tech. He’s been to 30+ countries in his lifetime and we talked about travel and travel tips, as well as a dive into study habits and tricks.
podcast, systematic
Among a few fixes and new features, Marked 2 now has Passive Voice detection included in the Keyword Highlighting feature (⌘⇧K). I’ve also expanded the default “Use Alternate” dictionary, which highlights words that you may want to find an alternate, less ambiguous or complex word for. To update your word list, you can copy any words you’ve added, use the “Reset to Defaults” button, and paste back in any customizations.
marked
As I mentioned previously, Realmac is making an effort to “clear” up confusion surrounding multiple versions of their app Clear. They plan to make the new, consolidated version of Clear available for free for two 24-hour periods, and the first one just started.
appstore, itunes, productivity
Sponsor: ManyTricks (Feb 20th) A big thanks to ManyTricks — makers of Moom, Name Mangler, Desktop Curtain and many more — for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. Quick Tip: caffeinate your Terminal (Feb 20th) A scriptable Terminal command for waking up your system and keeping it awake. A Jekyll CDN with CloudFront (Feb 21st) Setting up a CDN for Jekyll (or just about any static blog) using Amazon’s CloudFront service. Day One as project log (Feb 24th) I’m…
recap
Chuck Joiner was kind enough to invite me onto MacVoices #14048 to talk about my upcoming Macworld presentation: The Efficient Mac User (3/27 at 4pm, CF823, if you’re going to be at Macworld). We talk about my motivation for the talk, what’s going to be in it and who it’s going to help.
interview, macworld, podcast
I’ve spent a lot of time automating my Day One journal. Slogger and various other scripts keep it populated with my social and work logs. I recently decided to start logging my time better in general, so I’ve started using Day One “properly,” at least part of the time.
dayone, productivity
I recently added a CloudFront CDN for all static assets on this site. Adding a CDN to Jekyll isn’t terribly difficult, but there are a few steps. I found this post, which was very helpful. It’s primarily for Rails sites, so I’m posting some more detail for Jekyll sites here.
amazon, cdn, jekyll, webdesign
I’m going to try doing recap posts of articles on the blog for the previous week. On slower blogging weeks they’ll be a little short, but I think they’ll be useful for people who want a very low-traffic way to keep up with what I consider the most interesting, and a way to spot something you might have missed over the course of a busy week.
recap
I’ve been using this great tip from Sean Coates for years now on my remote Linux servers. It allows you to simulate the command (which copies piped text to the OS X clipboard) on remote SSH servers, but copies to your local clipboard instead. I’ve primarily been using OS X servers for a while now, though, and it took a few changes to get it working.
scripting, ssh, terminal
