Yeah, this has become my morning habit. Make coffee, add something to Bunch. If you haven’t been following, Bunch is my batch application launcher for the Dock that I wrote way back on Tuesday of this week. As of today, it’s not just for your Dock anymore.
bunch, macos
Apparently this is just what I do early in the mornings now. Bunch 1.0.4 is out. It’s a pretty heavy code overhaul, switching most functions that were using AppleScript over to NSWorkspace, which you probably won’t notice but it solves some security and performance issues. It also does a better job of checking whether it really needs to execute a function (i.e. is the app already running? Closed? Hidden?). It’s speedier all around.
bunch, macos
Thanks to Tower for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’m a huge fan of this Git version control app, and I use it daily. It makes complex Git tasks as easy as drag and drop, including integration with GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, and more.
developer, git, sponsor
A quick update to Bunch: it can now quit apps in addition to launching them. If your bunch file has an exclamation point before the name of an app, it will attempt to quit it instead of launching it, making Bunch an actual context switcher. For example, to quit Slack and open Hulu, your would include:
bunch, macos, scripting
Thanks to Taz Goldstein on Twitter, it came to my attention that my tool for generating downloads for my TextExpander snippets had partially broken. In the process of fixing it, I made some improvements.
snippet, textexpander, tools
I’ve more or less finished a little side project I started to make it easier to find and use Marked Custom Styles. I have a lot of plans for improving the styling system itself, but for now I wanted to make a little more user-friendly way to look around than just going to visit a GitHub repository.
gallery, marked, userstyle
If this note applies to you, you already know what a Hyper key is. If you don’t, go ahead and start with the post I wrote a while back on using Karabiner Elements to make your Caps Lock key more useful. If you’re starting from scratch, you won’t need the info below, I’ve already updated the instructions.
hyper, keybindings, keyboard, macos
As you probably know, I’m a long-time fan of Curio for brainstorming and project management. It’s an honor to have Zengobi sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week!
brainstorming, productivity, sponsor
A lot of you already have a Bluetooth keyboard you love. Whether it’s a keyboard just for your iPad or one on your desktop that can serve both, they’re pretty ubiquitous. But a significant portion of the nerd community has a favorite keyboard that isn’t Bluetooth.
bluetooth, hardware, ios, keyboard, review, writing
Let me start by saying that if you haven’t checked out Setapp yet, you should. The number of quality apps available makes it ridiculous to not give it a try.
scripting, setapp, terminal
I use a fairly complex build system for the Marked 2 help documents that get used on both the website and in the internal help. Among the many features I’ve added over time is the ability to use named shortcuts for Mac symbols — Command, Shift, the Apple Menu, etc. — and have them replaced with HTML entities at compile time. Since it took a bit to put together the whole list, I thought I’d share it for anyone who faces a similar task.
html, ruby, scripting
