Dash is my favorite way to reference syntax and info about dozens of programming languages, and one of my most used applications. The developer of Dash recently released “Cheatset”, a way to build your own Cheat Sheets to display in Dash as docsets, complete with indexed commands and categories.
cheaters, cheatsheet, markdown, multimarkdown, ruby, scripting
If you don’t use git and you’re not interested in command line logging, move along, nothing to see here. I promise this won’t go on forever, unlike my PopClip obsession.
doing, git, productivity
I started my project late last week and it’s turned into my “productive procrastination” project. It’s a simple CLI that helps you keep track of what you’re doing and provides a record of what you’ve done.
cli, doing, productivity
This tip from Macworld is a fun one for writers. It’s about how you can manually trigger the autocorrect popup in Cocoa text fields by hitting space after a misspelled word and then moving the caret backward to the edge of the word. After a very short delay, the suggestion popover (only in the most recent versions of OS X) will appear and you can use arrow keys and enter to choose one. Dismiss it with escape. It avoids the entire process of right clicking and choosing a correction from…
keyboard, macos, productivity, quicktip, writing
I lamented on Twitter and App.net that my Dock was no longer respecting “Keep in Dock,” and hadn’t for a while now. It turned out I was far from alone; I heard from a lot of people having the same experience. One friend, Thomas Brand, offered a simple solution: delete the Dock preferences. It stung a bit — it’s the equivalent of “did you try rebooting?” — but it worked and I’m grateful.
macos, solutions, tips
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bookmarks, cli, marked, text
The CLI that I announced yesterday has been more warmly received than I expected. I’ll share expansions and updates to it as they happen. If you’ve already installed with , you can update with the latest features using . Fresh installs will get them by default.
cli, doing, productivity
I made something that I worked really hard on, despite knowing few people besides myself would ever find a use for it. However, if you:
doing, productivity, scripting