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Systematic #32 just went live. I was joined by Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater software for a conversation about MarsEdit, productivity and some great picks of the week.
podcast, systematic
At this point, I think just about everyone knows I have a thing for iOS text editors. My proclivity for plain text and my love of my iDevices means that I track innovation in this arena pretty closely. A new app in this category has recently caught my attention: Write, a Dropbox-based text editor for iPhone.
appreview, iphone, texteditor
Here are a couple of nifty (I think) bash functions which probably won’t work for anyone else. The first one checks GMail1 and reports unread messages on the command line, the second one keeps a vigilant watch for new messages and streams the sender and subject lines using rsstail.
terminal
If you’ve used nvALT for a while, you know that tagging in it is, well, broken. There’s no unified place to see all your tags, and tags can’t be searched exclusively. The nice thing that Zachary built into it is OpenMeta tagging, so if you store your notes as plain text files, you can search tags with Spotlight and any OpenMeta app. This, combined with the url handler, leads to some interesting possibilities.
nvalt, tagging
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After some annoyances with the latest version of Safari, I switched over to Google Chrome full time. I had every intention of switching back when the kinks were ironed out of Safari, but the extensions available for Chrome have kept me hesitant to leave it behind.
chrome, github
Jason Rehmus, freelance editor and writer, joined me this week to talk about — among other things — his own story of changing his own life on his own terms. It’s a great example of the “Midwest work ethic.” I know, people everywhere work hard, but us upper-Midwest folk take pride in the reputation. I can’t explain it.
podcast, systematic
To make up for my nerdery yesterday, I present the dumbest service ever made. By me, anyway, I’d hate to strip that title unknowingly from someone else without a fair fight.
service, text
Let me start this by saying that I’m fully aware that there are multiple ways to accomplish this feat, and that my choice may not have been the perfect one. It happens to work around some frustrations I found with other solutions, but I kind of got on a kick of really wanting to make this work. It works (though it killed my Sunday). It’s pretty complex to describe, though, so I’ll probably end up leaving some holes in the story. If something doesn’t make sense, point it…
jekyll, launchd, macos, notifyutil
I spent too long figuring this out, but I’m quite certain there are at least 3 people who can put the result to good use. I don’t know who they are yet, but they’ll show up. Eventually.
cli, scripting
I know a lot of web developers still use FTP clients to work on remote servers. I prefer to have a local dev install and use scp, rsync and git to push changes whenever it’s feasible. When I can’t do that, though, I use .
ssh
If you’ve ever thought of developing an iPhone or iPad app — or any app, really — Hilton Lipschitz has chronicled the journey of his new release, TimeToCall. It’s a great way to see the scope of an independent development project and the amount of work that goes into a carefully-considered application.
appreview, developer, iphone
I’d been meaning to write a script to do this for a while, and a post by Dr. Drang inspired me to whip it up. Dr. Drang’s is a TextExpander snippet (which also works fine in shell if you use “quoted form of” to be safe). This method is just a tad more convenient for Terminal usage. It’s a two-line bash function for quickly -ing to the location of the front Finder window with a simple command ().
macos, terminal
