I’m usually a good sport about macOS updates. I find stuff to like, and deal with the bugs as they get worked out. I’m not feeling as generous about Big Sur. Among many annoyances I have is a relatively (well, very) small one: Apple hid the proxy icon behind a rollover with a delay in Finder.
finder, icons, macos, terminal
Ok, so here’s the deal. Marked works on Big Sur. If you’re using it for previewing your Markdown or exporting HTML, it should continue to work perfectly for you. But if you, like a majority of my customers, use Marked to output great-looking PDFs, you’re going to run into some trouble that will take me a while to sort out.
html, macos, marked, pdf, webkit
Thanks to PDFpen for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! If you want truly flexible and powerful PDF editing, PDFpen is the only app you need.
pdf, sponsor
Version 2.0 of Hook is out, and there’s a lot to talk about. Creator Luc Beaudoin was on Mac Power Users recently, discussing Hook among other things. You can see everything that’s new in the Hook 2.0 Release Notes.
hookcli, hookmark
I wrote a quick script in response to a tweet from Brittany Smith in which she sought a solution for all the leftover Zoom tabs she had open in Safari after following a link that launched the Zoom app. I’m not in enough Zoom calls on a daily basis for this to be a real issue for me, but it was an easy enough script to whip up. I’m sharing it in case more people than just Brittany are in the same boat.
applescript, safari, scripting, webdesign
So I took this week off on Systematic. I was working (really hard!) to bring on a guest who could speak well to the mood of the US right before an historic election, but it turns out that most people that I consider “credentialed” for this discussion also have a lot of other stuff to do right before an historic election. So scheduling fell through a few times, and I’ll try to connect with some of my hopefuls in a few weeks and see how things are going. In the meantime, I’m very much…
overtired, podcast, systematic
I’m a fan of Deckset for creating presentation decks using Markdown. Being able to write out an entire presentation in plain text is slick, and doing so cuts out time spent on transitions, animations, and other frivolities that come with building a deck in Keynote or PowerPoint. One thing that I’ve always missed, though, is progressive builds for lists, where each bullet item is revealed only when you advance.
markdown, service
This week on Systematic, I spoke with Jay Miller, a developer advocate for Elastic, and a guy who “builds stuff to help people who build stuff build stuff.” Which is a descriptive, albeit circumspect, way to say he makes cool stuff. He’s also one of the few Black developers I’ve had the pleasure of talking to on Systematic, a thing I’d like to make less rare.
overtired, podcast, systematic
This is actually a double — well, quadruple — update. I missed the summary last week, so you get four at once. Four high quality, like-new podcasts, for the low, low price of $0.
overtired, podcast, systematic
Thanks to Curio for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been a fan of Curio for years — for everything from research and brainstorming to full project management — and it keeps getting better!
pdf, productivity, sponsor, support
Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve said it many times, but I’d be lost without TextExpander on my Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
sponsor, textexpander
I’ve been a bit light on the blogging this week. My energy level is pretty good, but most of my time has gone into podcast editing and guesting on other podcasts. I guess I’m a podcaster? That doesn’t sound quite right, but I’ll keep trying to figure it out.
overtired, podcast, podcasting, systematic
