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Recap: May 14th, 2014

May 14th, 2014

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It’s been a busy week. If you listen to Systematic, you probably know why… recap

up: fuzzy navigation up a directory tree

May 14th, 2014

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Here’s a (relatively) simple shell function for navigating up the tree from your current working directory. It was inspired by bd, but I got frustrated with some aspects (and the fact that it’s not really OS X-compatible anymore). scripting, terminal

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Systematic 96 with Matthew Ward

May 14th, 2014

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Matthew Ward writes reviews of audio listening equipment for Macworld and TechHive. He knows his stuff. What I found most interesting was his ability — despite being an “audiophile” — to look beyond price and find true quality in inexpensive products. I could stand to learn a thing or two about that. podcast, systematic

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Giveaway: 5 codes for Yoink

May 14th, 2014

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I first mentioned Yoink back in 2011, and I’ve run it every day since. It’s a small utility that shows up when you start dragging files and gives you a convenient shelf to collect them on until you’re ready to drag them out into another folder or application. It’s extremely handy. apps, appstore, giveaway, macos

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The Painless Vim giveaway winners

May 13th, 2014

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Thanks to everyone who entered, and best of luck honing your Vim skills. If you didn’t win a copy of Painless Vim, go buy one. It’s an excellent way to get acquainted with a very powerful editor. It also now includes a very well-designed and quick-to-scan cheat sheet. It’s one of the most helpful I’ve seen. books, giveaway

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MultiMarkdown upgrades for Marky the Markdownifier

May 12th, 2014

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I’ve updated Marky the Markdownifier with a few key fixes and improvements. It’s getting more and more traffic and has some dedicated users, so it seemed like it was about time to solve some of the more annoying issues. It still needs a usability overhaul and some kind of iOS solution, but these issues were the ones that bothered me the most. markdown, markdownifier, marky, multimarkdown

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PopMaker: a PopClip extension generator

May 12th, 2014

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I don’t know yet if this project is going any further, but I thought I’d share what I’ve been experimenting with. It occurred to me — after a couple dozen request for “can you make a PopClip extension for this?” — that I could probably put the power in the hands of people who aren’t necessarily comfortable editing PLIST files. I present PopMaker. popclip, popmaker, video

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Making my tmux life easier

May 11th, 2014

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Have you heard of ? Do you ache for terminal mutiplexing and persistent shell sessions? If not, you can probably skip this post. Hang tight, I have something more generally palatable in the works. In the meantime, if you want to read up, head to the tmux homepage. scripting, terminal, tmux, zsh

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Bash and Dash

May 10th, 2014

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I know, “bash and dash” sounds like a sadistic game for frat boys. But it rhymed and was so apropos. scripting, terminal

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Giveaway: 5 copies of “Painless Vim”

May 9th, 2014

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If you’re a text editing, Terminal surfing kind of computer user, you probably find the venerable text editor Vim to be fascinating. Either because you’re a whiz at it and fully understand it, or because you’re like me and have spent years listening to the cool kids talk about it. books, editor, giveaway, review, text, vim

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