Mostly because of Stephen Hackett’s endorsement of it in Systematic #11, I’m giving Gauges a try for my blog analytics right now. One thing I immediately appreciated about Gauges was the simplicity of the API. You can easily incorporate it into scripts, tools, even things like Status Board, with a little output formatting.
analytics, gauges, geektool, slogger
I hadn’t seen it happen for a long time, but it struck me today. Blurry icons in Finder and Launchpad. Not all of them, just a few. Some App Store apps, some non, with no obvious rhyme or reason to what was affected.
launchpad, macos, quicktip
iTextEditors, my comparison chart for iOS text editing apps of all sorts, continues to grow. With the features of over 80 text editors now listed on the chart, I don’t think I’m lying when I say it’s a valuable resource to anyone who wants simple, fast editing on their iOS device. While I haven’t had the time to redesign the chart to make the comparison and filtering as easy as possible, I did find the time to add a way to specify what’s been most recently added or…
ios, ipad, iphone, itexteditors, texteditor
I took a minute to clean up some styling on Cheaters. The League Gothic font wasn’t looking very good on my new monitor, and I decided just to clean everything up a little. You can’t just go changing one font without changing all of them, right?
cheaters, cheatsheet, siri
My planned guest for episode 39 had to cancel at the last minute. I decided to take the opportunity to find a guest I’d never heard of and see how things went.
podcast, systematic
A post based on my presentation at the last Macworld is up on… wait for it… Macworld. It was written prior to the advent of Mailbox, which I’m testing as an alternative solution right now, but this is still my go-to system.
email, macworld, writing
Up until today, I’d been redirecting 404 errors on my new site to an archive version of the old site. I’m confident enough at this point that all of my previous content (that I’m concerned with) is properly redirecting and search engines are all updated with the new permalink structure. So I turned that off.
javascript, jekyll, webdesign
I got bored with my nvALT preview style. I’ve been using a GitHub style forever now, and it’s great for just about every situation. Clean, crisp, legible… still, I needed a break. I based a new custom style on work that my friend, Erik Sagen, did for the next version of Marked. I made some tweaks for my own tastes, and added some JavaScript tricks to it.
design, javascript, marked, nvalt
The Soulmen have just posted Ulysses III to the Mac App Store. It brings Daedalus-style document management (similar to Scrivener) to a Markdown (and Textile) editor that’s pretty special.
appreview, editor, macos, markdown, ulysses
It was my pleasure to host Patrick Rhone (minimalmac.com, Enough and more) on Systematic episode 38. We talked about physical and mental challenges, career paths and eventually got around to “unconscious computing,” the fascinating topic surrounding things like the FitBit and Google Glass.
podcast, systematic
