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
I made a quick PopClip extension today for adding hard line wrapping to blocks of text. In general I’m a fan of letting text wrap automatically, but when I’m coding I prefer hard line breaks at 70-80 columns. Easy to do in almost any decent text editor, but elsewhere (ahem, Xcode) I wanted a fast way to do it.
extension, popclip
Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’m a huge fan, and my life without TextExpander would be very tedious, indeed.
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I did a little more weekend work on Bunch, and I’ll probably post an update on some exciting new stuff soon. I’d love it if you helped test by downloading the beta version and checking the changelog to see what’s up. Anyway, that’s not the point of this post.
bookmarklet, browser, marked, scripting, webdesign
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bettertouchtool, bookmarks, hyper, macos, survey
Thanks to Unite 4 from BZG for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’d been missing a good, modern app for making Single Site Browsers, and Unite came to the rescue. I highly recommend it!
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Are you ready? I kinda went down a rabbit hole with Bunch this last week. It’s a lot. Because this release is so big, I’m releasing it as a beta first. All of the documentation for the new version is at brettterpstra.com/bunch-beta/docs, and the download link can be found at brettterpstra.com/bunch-beta/download.
automation, beta, bunch, notifications, sleep, snippet
Ok, one more batch of updates for Bunch. It’s just so much fun to work on that I spent last weekend on it. Don’t worry, nvUltra is getting an equal amount of love.
bunch, music, scripting, snippet
I wrote back in November that Marked had an incompatibility with Big Sur that was causing the PDFs it generated to come out as raster images, rather than as vector-based text that would be scalable and selectable. I’m happy to report that Apple has fixed this issue on their end and it’s now 100% safe to use Marked 2 on Big Sur.
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