You know those relatively mundane moments that you remember forever? The right friends, the right music, the right lighting, the right temperature: suddenly there’s this moment that you know you’ll never forget. It’s not a rush of fear or adrenaline, it’s not an event or circumstance, it’s just a moment that somehow wrote itself to your permanent storage.
personal
Systematic #29 was posted earlier today, including interviews with Victor Agreda Jr., Michael Schechter and Fletcher MultiMarkdown Penney, M.D.. It consists of off-the-cuff chats during my week at Macworld and is to be taken lightly and with a sense of humor. Hope you enjoy it.
podcast, systematic
I’m tossing an early-morning project out there for anyone who might find it useful. It was inspired by a quick tip via OneThingWell. It lets you pop up LaunchBar, type in a Sparkup format string and create a temporary playground (with jQuery loaded) in Chrome. You can then use the inspector to modify elements and test out jQuery.
launchbar, webdesign
While I’m at Macworld, my friend Jason Rehmus has provided a guest post. Jason did the editing for the Marked 1.4 documentation and has just launched Sweating Commas, where he provides affordable editing services for bloggers and web writers. Be sure to check it out!
marked
Well, I’m in San Francisco for Macworld 2013. My first few days here are going to be consumed with planning a redesign for AOL Tech and doing some heads-down coding. If you’re around, though, ping me and I’ll see if I have time for coffee/beer/dinner/whatever. I’m looking forward to meeting some people!
macworld
I have been asked a few times, so I’m sharing my current Hyper key mappings on my trusty Apple Wireless Keyboard. These are the ones that have already sunk into my muscle memory. I’ll add to them over time, but I like to take the keyboard shortcut thing slow and see what works before I go nuts.
keybindings, productivity
On my WordPress blog I ran a plugin called Download Monitor which allowed me to create download ids that could be inserted via short tags. When I updated a download version, any mention of it throughout the site would be updated to show the latest version and link to the most recent download package. I needed something similar on my Jekyll blog to keep things up to date. The following system is geared toward Jekyll but the concept could be adapted to any static blog.
jekyll
Markdown can be a great tool for maintaining large documentation projects of any kind. There are simple and not-so-simple ways to create the output, but the basic idea is always to maintain the source documents in Markdown format. It provides an easy way to update and maintain multiple output formats and a centralized repository of information that’s easily shared, community editable and ready to pass on to new participants.
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