Backstory: my co-host on Overtired, Christina Warren, has a constantly growing collection of repositories she’s starred on GitHub. As a developer advocate for a Big Tech company, she always keeps her finger on the pulse of the new and cool developer stuff, and her stars serve as a curated list of “projects to watch.” It came up on an episode a while ago, and I decided we should have a way to display the latest ones.
Wordpress, developer, github, wordpress
Thanks to Loopback and Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! When I first tried out Loopback I was immediately astounded by what it could do for me. With my current audio setup — two external audio interfaces with a combination of 8 inputs and 6 outputs — routing was a necessity. A few virtual Loopback devices and I haven’t had to think about what was going where ever since, whether in Skype, Zoom, Logic, or just listening to music. Not to mention routing…
macos, sponsor
I was working on Systematic show notes today and, as always, making good use of SearchLink for quickly adding links to my notes. Then I ran into a LinkedIn handle and decided I needed a faster way to do that. Fast forward an hour.
macos, searchlink, service
I know mind mapping isn’t for everybody, but if it’s for you, I’d like to remind you that Marked 2 works with some of the major Mac mind mapping apps, bringing mind mapping, markdown, and writing together for some amazing workflows.
markdown, marked, mindmapping, tips, tools, writing
A buddy of mine is ramping up his command-line fu lately. He’s a thorough notetaker, and he’s taken to commenting his shell code immaculately. I applaud this. He mentioned that he really liked this particular formatting for describing what each flag/switch in a command does:
cli, comments, developer, service, terminal
Thanks to TextBuddy for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I have rapidly become a huge fan of this app and am honored to have them as a sponsor.
sponsor
If you’re keeping track at all, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t posted about Bunch since the beta for version 1.4 launched. This is not due to a lack of progress. It’s more like the changes were coming too fast.
beta, bunch, scripting, shell
Bartender has long been a contender for Most Valuable Utility on my Mac. I’ve mentioned it a lot. It’s up there with TextExpander and BetterTouchTool. And I can’t believe it, but it somehow keeps getting better.
appreview, icons, keyboard, macos, review, setapp, shortcuts, status
Ok, so I still write Mac apps in Objective-C. I swear I’ll buckle down and get more comfortable with Swift eventually, but for the time being, I’m mostly square brackets.
objective-c, scripting, service, xcode
Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! Don’t forget to check out the TextExpander Tools snippet group I just published!
sponsor, textexpander
I’ve started going through and cleaning up my large collection of TextExpander snippets, starting with the ones I share publicly. In the process I’m moving away from my homebrew snippet sharing system to using TextExpander’s new(ish) public snippet groups. Once I’ve pruned and updated all of the groups in the te-snippets tool, I’ll redirect that page to a list of my publicly shared snippet groups.
snippet, textexpander, tools
Ok, so we’re all in Zoom way too much these days. We’re clicking links in calendar entries, Slack messages, and emails. They’re opening a browser tab every time, which then opens Zoom. I wrote a little script to clean up all those tabs, but that’s a kludge. Choosy is better.
browser, macos
