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
I spent my free time over the last week setting up a new Macbook Air. Given my constant experimentation with OS X, I build up a lot of mistakes over time. I decided to do this install from the ground up and avoid porting legacy garbage into a new machine. These are my notes from the setup.
apps, macos
I was honored to join the last MacJury with Chuck Joiner, Dori Smith, and Peter Cohen. We talked about Mailbox and Dropbox, RSS and Google Reader and a bit about Kevin Lynch and Apple. It was a great conversation with some people smarter than me, and it was really fun to be a part of.
macjury, macvoices, podcast
I’ve just pushed nvALT 2.2β 104 to the server. It should be available for all current users of the 2.2 beta under “Check for Updates.” If you’re not currently using the beta, you’ll need to download and update directly using the link below. Note that we’re no longer supporting previous versions; despite the beta label, it’s more stable than 2.1 is right now. This should be the final beta release before an official 2.2 version.
nvalt
More for the purposes of associating posts and building my custom search engine, but also for SEO, I’ve been adding semantic keywords to my Jekyll posts. The result is similar to my old AutoTag bundle for the TextMate blogging bundle. It creates a keyword block for my post in addition to my curated tags which contains top-level topics and can be used in Open Graph keywords, keyword meta and for search and related post association during site generation.
jekyll, tagging, zemanta
A relatively new app called Pinbrowser highlights the social aspect of bookmarking on the “Antisocial Bookmarking” platform, Pinboard. It allows you to quickly browse other people’s public bookmarks by user, tag or popularity, right on your iPhone.
appreview, ios, iphone
I’ve had several people report that the nvALT Tag Search workflow for Alfred 2 hasn’t been working for them. I just updated the download with version 1.1. It removes some of the criteria for the file filter and hopefully generalizes the search enough to work for more people.
alfred, nvalt, search, tagging
While dinking around with Alfred 2, I came up with something kind of handy. It’s a workflow containing just a file filter which constrains the search to your nvALT folder and searches only by OpenMeta tags, and a shell script that opens the file in nvALT.
alfred, scripting, tagging
I like link bundlers. They allow me to share multiple urls with people in a way that’s convenient for me and the person receiving them. My former standby was Linkbun.ch, but they’re getting old and I’m not sure how much longer it will be around. Bit.ly added Bundles back in 2010, and more recently added API access to them. I figured I’d give it a shot.
bitly, service
