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
I love my aliases. It’s part of the reason I need a better dotfile management setup — porting them to any server environment I’m working on is a must for my sanity. I thought I’d share a few of the ones I find handy, especially in OS X environments.
terminal
Here’s a quick trick I’ve been using to load different editors from the command line based on the type of file. It can be extended to whatever file types you want to handle and use whichever editor you prefer.
quicktip, scripting, terminal
Yes, I updated SearchLink again (another lunchtime project). I added Amazon search (!a) and a configuration option to allow auto-creation of affiliate links. If you set the option to it will return straight Amazon links.
markdown, search, searchlink
I find SearchLink to be one of my most useful Services to date. I don’t even use the Auto-Link command from the Markdown Service Tools anymore. In case you haven’t seen it yet, it allows you to quickly enter simple markers in your text and then automatically run various types of web searches and insert the top result as a Markdown link automatically. It saves a ton of time when you’re linking lists of apps, adding definitions, referencing iTunes and Last.fm artists and much…
macos, markdown, searchlink, service
I was extremely happy to host Jonathan Snook (a.k.a. “Snook”) on Systematic today. I’ve been following his work for over a decade, and it was great to chat with him about career paths, using Github as a portfolio and some great top picks for web developers (and Archer fans).
podcast, systematic
