Introducing Markdown Quicktags, a new WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers! If you edit your blog in Markdown, whether you publish that way or not, this plugin will make your life almost 37% better. It’s quickly turning out to be one of the coolest things I think I’ve ever done!
Wordpress, experiments, markdown, mdqt, plugin, quicktags
I hope that the folks at BSR will forgive me for picking on their website’s aesthetics, as I have nothing but good things to say about the company and their products.
marketing, personal
You may have cause, at some point, to modify the behavior of the QuickTags in the HTML editor of WordPress (the non-WYSIWYG, non-“Visual” editor). There are a lot of tutorials available for editing the quicktags.js file in the WordPress wp-includes folder, but they all seem to want you to edit the file directly. That’s a Bad Idea™ because the next time you upgrade, your changes are kaput. Here’s how to make your own quicktags.js and do whatever you want with it.
Wordpress, hacks, markdown, quicktags
I know some people have been moving away from WordPress and toward blogging solutions like Tumblr. The number one reason I hear for making this move is that WordPress gets to complicated once you start customizing. Distractingly so. I don’t disagree.
Wordpress, plugin, review
Another quick experiment. Honestly, I don’t use pluggable functions in jQuery nearly as much as I should, so this is really just a brain exercise to get myself used to it. This one, called Pully, lets you specify a selector to have its contents cloned and inserted as a pull quote in your text.
experiments, javascript, jquery, plugin
These VoodooPad Script Plugins are the result of two opposing traits of mine: laziness and curiosity. Laziness because, well, why should I have to move my hand all the way over to my mouse to go to the previous day in my VoodooPad log? Curiosity because I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing in Lua and wanted to see if I could do something just slightly more interesting than my “Go to Today” script.
logging, scripting, voodoopad
And now for something entirely different… I wanted to test out GarageBand ‘11 as a musical scratchpad, so I put this together last night (also my first recording with an electric guitar). It’s mostly first takes (which is especially obvious on the vocal tracks) because I wanted to see how well the app worked for just getting ideas out of my head. My conclusion: it works really well. The Groove Sync and Flex Timing fixed a lot of little mistakes. If only it had an autotuner (…
music, personal, something precious
Apparently I missed the memo: TabLinks 2.0 was actually approved by Apple in September. I’ve been sitting on my hands and just recently bothered to write them and ask what was up. Miscommunication, I guess, but it’s live in the updater now, so if you have 1.3 installed, it should update to 2.0. If you have automatic updates turned off, just check the updates section at the bottom of your extensions preferences.
extension, safari, tablinks
I just discovered Sparkup (via NetTuts+). It adds the one thing I find lacking in Zen Coding: the ability to traverse backward in a shortcut (among several other improvements).
html, textmate
