In the last Marked newsletter I wrote a bit about Marked’s Streaming Preview, a feature of Marked that flew under the radar for a few years before starting to gain some traction.
keyboard, keyboardmaestro, marked, scripting, writing
I had previously bemoaned the fact that the proxy icon is now hidden behind a hover delay in Big Sur. In that post, I mentioned that you could remove that delay in Finder using the command . But that only affects Finder, and you have to repeat it with various bundle identifiers for each app making use of the Big Sur toolbar layout.
macos, terminal
I was browsing my gists recently and found one I’d totally forgotten about, which is somewhat ironic given its purpose: scheduling short-term reminders with alarms from the Terminal. I posted it about it back in 2016, but eventually it fell into disuse, as a lot of my just-playing-with-an-idea scripts tend to.
scripting, terminal
Thanks to PDFpen for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! PDFpen is truly the ultimate tool for everything you need to do with PDFs, and I highly recommend it.
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The gist is this: when you need to script a tool that requires administrator privileges, you want to make the process as automated as possible without creating glaring security problems (like including a password in plain text).
macos, scripting, security, tips, tools, unix
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.
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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
