I ran into a situation yesterday where I wanted to create over a thousand TextExpander snippets. I won’t go into detail about why, but I thought I’d share my solution. In my case, I was working with a huge CSV file where one field would be the abbreviation and another would be the expansion. The script I’m sharing below only works with CSV files containing two fields (abbreviation, expansion), but it can easily be extrapolated to work with much more complex sources of data.
productivity, ruby, scripting, snippet, textexpander
If you use both Marked and Jekyll (or Octopress), you may want to preview your posts accurately in Marked before publishing. The first obvious step is to link your screen.css file as a Custom Style:
jekyll, marked, ruby
As you may have noticed, this site has changed. I find it significantly less ugly now, but the changes run much deeper than that.
jekyll, news, webdesign
Happy New Year’s Eve! Since I’m certain you were wondering what you were going to do with that day off tomorrow, Systematic is out a day early this week to make sure your Podcast playlist is stocked.
podcast, systematic
This is part three of a three-part series covering some of my favorite apps for 2012. So far I’ve posted about my favorite Mac apps and my favorite iOS and Mac combo apps. This post covers some of my favorite iOS-only apps for the year.
appreview, ios, ipad, iphone
Well, my incredibly late Christmas episode of Systematic is up. It features an interview with Jesse Grosjean, the mad text genius behind TaskPaper, WriteRoom, PlainText and FoldingText. What more do I need to say?
podcast, systematic
This is part of a 3-part series covering some of my favorite apps for 2012. Yesterday I posted about some of my favorite Mac apps this year. This post is dedicated to apps available on both Mac and iOS with sync capabilities. This is by no means an all-encompassing list, but rather a few standouts.
appreview, ios, macos
This will be a 3-part series celebrating some of my favorite apps in 2012: Mac apps, Mac & iOS crossover apps and iOS apps. These are apps that I use regularly. Not all of them are new, and it’s not even close to a comprehensive list; just a few I thought worth mentioning.
appreview, apps, macos
A quick PSA: I thought Marked’s price was stuck at $.99 for the week, but my initial plan of a slow ramp back up to $3.99 is in effect. It should still be 50% off today, but the price will be climbing so act soon!
marked, sale
