Thanks to Sanebox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! I’ve been using it for years and I can’t imagine my email inbox without it.
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Thanks to BetterTouchTool for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I am a huge fan of BetterTouchTool and use it all day every day on my Mac. I wouldn’t know what to do without it. From customizing my keyboard shortcuts to adding infinite gestures to my trackpad to running my entire Stream Deck setup, there’s nothing this little utility can’t do.
bettertouchtool, customization, sponsor
Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I recently had a great time doing a panel about my use of TextExpander for the TextExpander Virtual Summit, and got to talk about how I’ve been using TextExpander since the very beginning, tips I’ve learned, and which of my snippets are my favorites. I’ll share some more of those here soon.
snippet, sponsor, textexpander
As I’ve said before, I’m a long time user and lover of Sanebox. Thanks to them for sponsoring again this week. Here’s a user story from Thomas Yuan.
email, sponsor
My cat died a couple weeks ago. I had him for 20 years and he’s left a large hole in my life. I know not everybody gets cats the way cat people do, but he was honestly one of my closest friends. I just wanted to write a bit about him now that the grief is a bit less raw and just remember him for the legend he was.
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I released a new version of Snibbets this morning that solves one peculiarity: if you have multiple snippets in one file but any of them don’t contain code blocks, then the titles and display would get weird.
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Funny story: I got a feature request for mdless to allow multiple sections to be specified in the output, but I misread the notification as a request for Doing. So I spent a couple hours adding multiple section handling to an array of Doing commands and happily reported the result to the user, who was very confused by the version number I gave him. I apologized and have now added multiple section handling to mdless, which was a lot less work than adding it to Doing. So I might as well write a…
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This post will only be of interest to those using the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (UHK), specifically with the lefthand key cluster module. I recently added some customizations I thought might be worth mentioning to those who happen to have this setup. For those who don’t, maybe read on and be tempted by the possibilities…
customization, keyboard
Thanks to Sanebox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! Sanebox has just introduced a new feature called Deep Clean, a way to reclaim your storage quota with smart batch deletes of old emails. Check it out for free and save yourself the headache of running out of space.
email, sponsor
Not so long ago I wrote a little script that would generate an HTML playground of any MacOS app’s menu bar, primarily for the purpose of generating screenshots. It has a full automation API and you can script screenshots with fuzzy name matching, meaning menu items names and positions can change and your automated screenshots will still work. It’s a very specific use case, but I shared it because it took way too much time and I would love it if it helped even one other person.
documentation, niftymenu
