Every Last Systematic Show Link

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

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Macworld 2013

Well, I’m in San Francisco for Macworld 2013. My first few days here are going to be consumed with planning a redesign for AOL Tech and doing some heads-down coding. If you’re around, though, ping me and I’ll see if I have time for coffee/beer/dinner/whatever. I’m looking forward to meeting some people! macworld

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A Downloads Manager for Jekyll

On my WordPress blog I ran a plugin called Download Monitor which allowed me to create download ids that could be inserted via short tags. When I updated a download version, any mention of it throughout the site would be updated to show the latest version and link to the most recent download package. I needed something similar on my Jekyll blog to keep things up to date. The following system is geared toward Jekyll but the concept could be adapted to any static blog. jekyll

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