As many of these updates seem to, this one started with a bug report from my friend Jay Miller, which caused me to run the test suite on SearchLink and discover a few things had broken since I last looked at it. So you get an update.
browser, history, markdown, search, searchlink
Ok, so you may or may not have heard of my Howzit project, so I’ll begin by recapping. “Howzit” is a contraction of “how does it” that allows you to query any project with commands like or and get documentation, as well as automatically execute the necessary steps for a task. I use it almost every day and it has saved me a crazy amount of time over the years, especially in picking up on projects I haven’t touched for a while.
developer, editor, git, howzit, markdown, productivity, sublimetext
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($35 value each) for TextBuddy. For anybody who deals with text, whether you’re composing, coding, or just emailing, TextBuddy is an indispensible tool that makes transforming and working with text a breeze. It’s fully extensible, too and you can extend it to perform custom actions in addition to its myriad built-in options. Use it with ChatGPT, let it format and preview your Markdown, and even integrate your favorite Quick…
giveaway, macos
I published a script yesterday for creating a “bundle file” of all binaries (executables) on your system that rely on Rubygems to install. These aren’t covered by Homebrew’s bundle command and I wanted easy system restore via my dotfiles setup.
binbundle, gem, ruby
I’ve always liked Homebrew’s bundle command. You can save a snapshot of everything you’ve installed with Homebrew, and then reinstall the snapshot on a new system.
bundle, gem, homebrew, ruby, scripting
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($24 value each) for PopClip. You know how when you select text on iOS, you get a little popup with operations like copy and paste? What if you could have that on your Mac? And if the menu options that show were customizable and powerful? That’s what PopClip does. I use it daily. Whenever I select text on a Mac and it doesn’t pop up offering me relevant actions for the type of text selected, it feels like something’s…
giveaway, macos, popclip
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a 1-year subscription ($99.99 value) for Backblaze. I use a 3-tier backup system: local clones, Time Machine, and Backblaze for cloud backup. Backblaze is the easiest, most affordable way to get an offsite backup of all your data, with versioning and easy restore when things go wrong.
backup, giveaway, macos
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($9.99 value each) for TableFlip. TableFlip makes Markdown tables from structured data like CSVs, allowing you to use a spreadsheet-like interface to edit tables, and providing plain text for your document. It seamlessly provides table editing within any editor. It’s truly a missing link for Markdown writers.
giveaway, macos, markdown
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($35 value each) for Dropzone. Dropzone gives you a panel in your menu bar that can run all kinds of scripts and automations, from uploading files to an FTP or S3 server to optimizing images or filing documents.
dropzone, giveaway, macos
