I Think I’m Switching to Jekyll…

I just spent the weekend experimenting with the idea of converting this whole blog from WordPress to Jekyll. It’s a blogging system that runs entirely off of static html files, and you can store your posts as individual Markdown files. Add a post and you can regenerate all of the indexes and archives at once and deploy the static site. The speed and stability increase is immense. Wordpress, jekyll

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A Bash Function for Markdown Bloggers

I store all of my writing as separate Markdown files. A basic tagging system1 adds more “searchability,” and I can quickly locate any file with Spotlight2. Given the amount of time I spend in Terminal (well, iTerm 2 these days), I use quite a bit to do the Spotlight searching. This function just makes it a little more convenient to search for and quickly edit an existing document. markdown, mdfind, scripting, spotlight, terminal

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Thanks WWDC

Thanks to everyone I met at WWDC this year and to the friends I got to see for a great time. San Francisco was as beautiful as ever and the Mac and iOS development communities are, as usual, full of new and brilliant ideas. It’s always heartening to see. TUAW and MacTech will be posting the result of our blogging work at WWDC over the next few weeks. personal, wwdc

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