I recently wrote a review of the Mac app SliceReader. The developer, Mutahhir Ali Hayat, was kind enough to offer you all five free copies ($2.99 US value). Use the form at the end of the post to enter.
giveaway, macappstore, macos
Regular Expressions, often called “regex,” are one of the most powerful tools in any programming language’s toolbox, at least when it comes to string handling. They can be a challenge to build and test if you’re working blind, though. There have been a few good apps to help out with this, and some websites that offer live, online testing of regular expressions.
appreview, macos, regex
I’m happy to announce that the BrettTerpstra.com t-shirt campaign hit its goal on the first day. Thanks to everybody who helped make that possible!
apparel
When SliceReader first appeared, I was instantly intrigued. It’s a simple app which “slices” an article, pasted text or text file into pages and display them, one paragraph per page. It’s designed to make reading long form articles easier for those of us who don’t do as well with reading long pages. It works.
appreview, macos, reading, review
The Markdown Service Tools include a Service called “Auto-link web search” which takes selected text, runs a web search on it and creates a Markdown link to the first match for you. The Service recently broke due to changes in DuckDuckGo’s responses.
markdown, markdownservices, service
My first publicly-available t-shirt for BrettTerpstra.com is up on TeeSpring now . It’s a limited run and only available for the next two weeks. You should buy one.
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Note: I’ll post pictures (and possibly video) of this whole setup once I’ve decided on the final position of the desk and gotten the cable situation tidied up.
fitness, furniture
It was great to have John Gruber join Systematic for today’s episode. We talked Vesper, of course, but also got into the origins of Markdown, editing excess verbosity and some great picks for the home.
podcast, systematic
We celebrate our 4th of July a little early in Winona, MN. I think it’s because we don’t like to compete with the larger city of La Crosse, WI down the river a ways.
fireworks, flickr, photography, winona
