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Delight Customers in Less Time With TextExpander [Sponsor]

Jan 12th, 2023

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Marked 2.6.18 With 100% Less Jitter

Jan 3rd, 2023

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The latest version of Marked 2, 2.6.18, is released for direct customers and in review for Setapp and Mac App Store customers. It has two things that I think will be of interest to many. marked, scripting

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Comment Flags Service With Long Options

Dec 31st, 2022

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I’ve updated the Comment Flags Service to handle long options. Comment Flags takes a terminal command and adds markup so you can comment on each flag/switch in the command for the purposes of documentation: cli, comments, developer, service, terminal

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Brett’s Favorites 2022 - Hardware

Dec 31st, 2022

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I spent a fair amount on hardware this year, and most of it was very satisfying. Here are some of my favorites. hardware, review

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Shooting Stars With iTelescope.net

Dec 21st, 2022

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I’ve been posting a lot of astrophotography to social media lately, and am constantly fielding the question “how did you do that?” So allow me to explain, for the sake of being able to link to this next time someone asks. astronomy, astrophotography, learning, photography

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Expanding Your Communication With TextExpander

Dec 21st, 2022

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Brett’s Favorites 2022 - Personal Projects

Nov 30th, 2022

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Here’s a rundown of the personal projects I’ve focused the most on in 2022. A lot of heart and soul (and manic energy) went into these. If any of them prove useful to you, monetary support is always welcomed and appreciated! bunch, doing, gather, howzit, markdown, marked, na, nvultra, personal, searchlink, support, tools

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Web Excursions for November 25, 2022

Nov 25th, 2022

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Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Backblaze. Back up everything. bookmarks, editor, popclip, scripting, themes

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Brett’s Favorites 2022 - Mac Apps

Nov 24th, 2022

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I’m getting an early start on this list this year. This will be some of my most used apps, with a special emphasis on apps that have seen significant updates in the last year. appreview, browser, developer, hookmark, keyboard, macos, productivity, setapp

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IPWhois: A Fast IP Geolocation API [Sponsor]

Nov 17th, 2022

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What Gets in the Way of Your Productivity? [Sponsor]

Nov 10th, 2022

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Keep Your Software Up-to-date Effortlessly With MacUpdater [Sponsor]

Oct 27th, 2022

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Thanks to MacUpdater for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been using MacUpdater for quite a while, keeping all of my software up to date across all of my Macs. I love updating all of my software with just a couple of clicks. sponsor

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Marked 2 and Hookmark (Nee Hook)

Oct 25th, 2022

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I released a new version of Marked 2 this week, featuring integration with Hookmark (formerly known as Hook). hook, hookmark, marked

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Na With a Global File

Oct 25th, 2022

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One more round of updates for na. I got a couple of questions about whether na could work with one centralized file. The answer was, at the time, “not really,” but I’ve made some changes to facilitate that. na, productivity, tagging, taskpaper

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Na Can Now Edit Your Actions

Oct 22nd, 2022

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So I’ve fleshed na out into a pretty great tool for querying and adding to a TaskPaper file, making it easy to manage having a todo list in every project directory I work in. But there was one thing I couldn’t do quickly from the command line: mark a task as completed. na, productivity, search, tagging, taskpaper

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