I had the pleasure of interviewing my buddy Jamie Phelps, a.k.a. jxpx777 on Systematic this week. The conversation covered magic, education, home entertainment and a wide variety of other topics. We even dug into our favorite text editor themes, just in case you’re nerdy enough to care.
podcast, systematic
This is a script I’m using with GeekTool to output a bar chart of stats for my blog to my desktop. It’s specifically geared toward the data returned by FeedPress, but I’m posting it because it can pretty easily be modified to work with any date-based data set. The concept is actually easy enough to use with any sequential data, and can be modified to output horizontal bars as well.
cli, geeklet, geektool, scripting
I’ve finished the biggest update to Planter thus far, and bumped it to version 2.0. I don’t know how popular this project is or ever will be, but I still find it useful enough to keep in good shape.
macos, planter, ruby, scripting, tagging, tools
Marked 2.1 (793) just went live. Current users can use “Marked → Check for Updates,” and anyone else can download a trial version at http://marked2app.com.
markdown, marked
I have a slew of aliases that launch various apps. Quite a few of them launch apps that I generally only use with one type of file. Xcode and TaskPaper, for example. I wanted a completion system that would find just the applicable files in the directory. In most cases with these apps there’s only one file per project, so being able to type and hit tab to open the file for the current project is handy.
scripting, terminal
Marked 2 is great for live previews while you write Markdown, but it’s also very handy for reading long form articles. There’s a variety of themes to choose from and many features for quickly navigating through long pieces.
marked, tips
Here’s a quick script that works with an IFTTT recipe to put your Pocket favorites into nvALT as Markdown. It works well for me because I typically use Pocket to store articles that are more informational than time sensitive. If you star a lot of “newsy” articles, this is probably a bad idea, but for reference material it’s helpful.
hazel, ifttt, markdown, nvalt, scripting
Carl Johnson left a comment on my “Lazy Markdown Links” post to mention that he’s long used a similar “lazy” method for footnotes. It struck me as a great idea. I whipped up another preprocessor1 for Marked 2 to make it work. It works as a standalone script, too.
markdown, marked, multimarkdown
I’ve been looking for a decent plugin to add a few features to my New Tab Page in Chrome. I found “the one” recently: Humble New Tab.
chrome, extension
About one year ago, Hugo Verweij brought us Cleartones Organic (mentioned here), and I’ve used the collection of cleverly simple, non-grating ringtones and alerts ever since. Now he’s produced Cleartones Pure, and I’m excited that he’s sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com to celebrate.
notifications
I’ve actually begun work on a book about tagging, and Mavericks in particular. It’s a subject I truly enjoy, and so far it’s kind of been writing itself. I hope to wrap it up faster than some of my other side projects. Bits that I think aren’t mass-consumable enough for publication will end up here, where my gentle readers can decide for themselves if they want to do anything with it.
macos, tagging, terminal
