I got stressed out on Monday night and couldn’t sleep. Anxiety’s a real gut punch. But I turned it into work on something I’ve been meaning to get to for a long time: I present the Marked 2 Custom Style Gallery (2.0, really, but the first actual finished product).
css, design, gallery, marked, scripting, themes
I was a big fan of the Simplify music controller for Mac (and its companion iOS app). Since it died I’ve gotten along without it, but I definitely miss my Sideshow jacket I’d built for it. So I’ve been on a quest to find new tools to enhance my music listening on macOS.
appreview, desktop, icons, keyboard, macos, music, scripting, shortcuts, tools, twitter
Back in 2011 I started tracking the minutiae of my work days using VoodooPad. It was partly for record keeping, but mostly to be able to walk away from my computer and still be able to remember what I was doing when I got back. I can be very, very scatterbrained. After VoodooPad, I had a system going using QuickQuestion and nvALT. Then it was Day One. By 2014 I’d come up with a solution in the form of a command line utility called . The journey was well documented up to that point in a…
automator, autotag, cli, design, doing, editor, geektool, git, html, launchbar, logging, marked, productivity, scripting, search, tagging, taskpaper, terminal, tools, typography, writing
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bookmarks, music, yoga
Correction: This post originally stated that Spotlight was also unable to index Simulator. It was quickly pointed out to me on Twitter that this is incorrect and Spotlight is indeed able to find the Simulator, so this only applies to people who prefer to launch from LaunchBar or similar.
developer, ios, launchbar, macos
In case you missed the big launch, there’s a new version of my favorite calendar app for Mac and iOS, Fantastical. Fantastical, which is almost 10 years old now, is a gem of a calendar app with fast natural language event parsing, an infinitely handy menu bar view on the Mac, and full support across all Apple devices (and the iPhone app is just as excellent as the Mac version, and the iPad version is awesome). Version 3 adds myriad new features and is an exciting leap forward for this…
appreview, ios, macos, productivity, support, weather
Thanks to VirtualHostX Pro for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been using VirtualHostX for what must be a decade now, and this latest version has some downright amazing capabilities for any web developer.
developer, macos, sponsor
Thanks to Timing for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I have Timing running all day, every day, and am always honored to have their support on the blog.
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Wow, compared to the barrage of updates in the last half of last year, it’s been a while since the last Bunch release. For those who missed it, Bunch is my text-file-based batch application launcher, replete with handy features for setting up “contexts” in your digital workspace. This update focuses on Bunch’s features for sending key commands.
bunch
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but a while back I added a nifty feature to posts on this site which displays activity from Twitter and Mastodon (likes, retweets, replies) on each post. In most cases, more responses to my work happen on social media than in post comments, so I really wanted to be able to integrate those social mentions with the existing comments. This is a static site running on Jekyll, so it took a little extra work and relies on a few external services.
comments, indieweb, social
