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
I’ve done 30 episodes of Systematic now. Every week I goad my guests into sharing their “Top 3 Picks.” It’s usually software (kind of my thing), but it can be just about anything. After so many episodes I began to realize that I had no way to give guests advance warning as to what had been mentioned recently. I needed a list of every link ever mentioned on the show, all in one searchable page.
scripting, systematic
It’s because the consumer cloud is easy and fast. But it’s not always secure enough for your business’ intellectual property. It certainly doesn’t meet Corporate’s policies for auditing and data retention. It’s simply not the cloud you’re looking for.
A new iPhone app with a clever premise hit iTunes today. Horizon is a calendar app with location-aware weather forecasts built in. Now you can see your schedule and what the weather will be during each appointment at a glance.
appreview, iphone
Fletcher Penney recently released MultiMarkdown Composer 2 on the Mac App Store. It’s a cleaned-up, smoothed-out, feature-packed version of the previous incarnation. I’m loving it.
appreview, macos
I was joined this week by John August, the screenwriter behind Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride, Big Fish and a dozen other great films. He’s also one of the masterminds behind the Fountain plain-text scriptwriting syntax and the upcoming app Highland which can convert Fountain syntax to a variety of output formats (including FDX).
podcast, systematic
You know those relatively mundane moments that you remember forever? The right friends, the right music, the right lighting, the right temperature: suddenly there’s this moment that you know you’ll never forget. It’s not a rush of fear or adrenaline, it’s not an event or circumstance, it’s just a moment that somehow wrote itself to your permanent storage.
personal
Systematic #29 was posted earlier today, including interviews with Victor Agreda Jr., Michael Schechter and Fletcher MultiMarkdown Penney, M.D.. It consists of off-the-cuff chats during my week at Macworld and is to be taken lightly and with a sense of humor. Hope you enjoy it.
podcast, systematic
I’m tossing an early-morning project out there for anyone who might find it useful. It was inspired by a quick tip via OneThingWell. It lets you pop up LaunchBar, type in a Sparkup format string and create a temporary playground (with jQuery loaded) in Chrome. You can then use the inspector to modify elements and test out jQuery.
launchbar, webdesign
