I reviewed Textastic recently, and had a lot of good things to say about it. Textastic for iPhone is now available as a separate application, and it boasts all of the features of the iPad version. If you want to edit code/Markdown on the go, this is an amazing app.
giveaway, ios, iphone, texteditor
George Entenman recently wrote a blog post where he expressed confusion over some of the things I talk about, build, or endorse. I wanted to take a moment to respond as I’m sure he’s not alone in this.
apps, productivity, writing
I’ll admit I’m a bit perturbed by the disappearance of all of the decent web search APIs (Yahoo, Google, Live.net, Bing went paid…). Google Ajax Search is still active, I think, but I don’t like working with it from the desktop. So I’m back to scraping, though this is some pretty light scraping.
markdownservices, scripting, service
I had the pleasure of hosting Merlin Mann1 for episode #6 of Systematic. Advance warning, it’s longer than an hour. You’ll live though, and it’s my sincerest hope that you have a good time doing it.
podcast, systematic
This tip is not highly technical, but may be of use to you if you use a trackpad on your Mac, be it laptop or Magic Trackpad. It came up while talking to Rabbi Eric Linder about workflows; a seemingly mundane problem, but it struck a chord with me because I had the same issue when I first got my Magic Trackpad.
macos, quicktip
Twitter was a great idea. It wasn’t alone, but it’s the only micro-blogging platform that stood the test of time. I knew them all, thanks to an old app I wrote called MoodBlast. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re probably in good company. Suffice to say that it was a way to post to Plurk, Pownce, Facebook, Twitter and others in one stroke. Only two of the nine services it worked with survived in any meaningful manner.
app.net, social, twitter
Wherein I discuss an array of topics with Joe Workman. We mull over work and relaxation, web development, movies and go into too much technical detail on a few subjects.
podcast
So, yeah, TextMate 2 is Open Source (GPL 3). I have no idea what this ultimately means or indicates. I stopped following the list a while back, just because it was overload at the time, so I don’t know if there’s a backstory I missed.
textmate
I added a couple of new snippets to the Tools section of the TextExpander tools this morning. One expands bit.ly urls, and one grabs the direct link to a Cloud.app upload.
snippet, textexpander, tools
