For as much as I follow web technologies, I really didn’t comprehend the full extent of possibilities until very recently. To that end, David Walsh has curated a great list of demos. Warning: they may explode your brain1.
canvas, html
I pushed a new version of Slogger to the GitHub repository this morning. For those who don’t care about all the nitty gritty, just head for the main page and download the zip.
slogger, twitter
I updated the GrabLinks bookmarklet one more time tonight, and anyone with it currently installed should start seeing the changes immediately. If you still need it, drag the link below to your toolbar.
bookmarklet, grablinks, jquery, markdown
Another day, another version of GrabLinks (the bookmarklet for grabbing all links from a chosen section of a webpage as a Markdown list). The first major change is that the bookmarklet is now auto-updating. It loads the actual script from the Gist and will therefore always load the latest stable version. It pops up a small “Loading” indicator until the script loads and, if needed, injects jQuery. If it’s a fast load, you may just see a brief flash of white in the upper left corner, so…
bookmarklet, grablinks, markdown
I shared this bookmarklet on Twitter a while ago, but it’s been so handy lately that I thought it was silly not to post it on the blog. It lets you hover over any section of a web page and grab all of the links contained in that portion of the page, handing them back to you as a nicely-formatted Markdown list. It’s a great way to get bunches of links into nvALT or any plain text situation.
bookmarklet, grablinks, jquery, markdown
I was overtired and feeling a bit sick, but talking with Nick Sousanis today perked me right up. He’s completing a dissertation at Columbia entirely as a comic book, and is as interesting as you would expect someone attempting that to be.
podcast, systematic
I recently wrote a review of the Mac app SliceReader. The developer, Mutahhir Ali Hayat, was kind enough to offer you all five free copies ($2.99 US value). Use the form at the end of the post to enter.
giveaway, macappstore, macos
Regular Expressions, often called “regex,” are one of the most powerful tools in any programming language’s toolbox, at least when it comes to string handling. They can be a challenge to build and test if you’re working blind, though. There have been a few good apps to help out with this, and some websites that offer live, online testing of regular expressions.
appreview, macos, regex
I’m happy to announce that the BrettTerpstra.com t-shirt campaign hit its goal on the first day. Thanks to everybody who helped make that possible!
apparel
When SliceReader first appeared, I was instantly intrigued. It’s a simple app which “slices” an article, pasted text or text file into pages and display them, one paragraph per page. It’s designed to make reading long form articles easier for those of us who don’t do as well with reading long pages. It works.
appreview, macos, reading, review
The Markdown Service Tools include a Service called “Auto-link web search” which takes selected text, runs a web search on it and creates a Markdown link to the first match for you. The Service recently broke due to changes in DuckDuckGo’s responses.
markdown, markdownservices, service
My first publicly-available t-shirt for BrettTerpstra.com is up on TeeSpring now . It’s a limited run and only available for the next two weeks. You should buy one.
apparel
Note: I’ll post pictures (and possibly video) of this whole setup once I’ve decided on the final position of the desk and gotten the cable situation tidied up.
fitness, furniture
