Thanks to MeisterTask for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. I’ve been using MeisterTask extensively—including integration with Slack and GitHub—for collaborative projects for quite a while now. I’m happy to offer my endorsement!
automator, sponsor
I posted an update on iTextEditors yesterday, and got a great response from people adding to and updating the list. This inspired me to finally add a couple of new criteria (that didn’t even exist when the original chart was created): Document Provider support and Split Screen support.
ios, itexteditors, support
Over the weekend I weeded out the dead apps on my iTextEditors comparison chart and was surprised to find that over 30 of the 90 editors on the list were no longer available. I figured a few would be gone, but a third of them had gone the way of the dinosaur1.
editor, itexteditors
I’ve put together a new screencast demonstrating some of the document statistics capabilities of Marked 2. In addition to being a great way to preview your Markdown documents as you work, Marked can go further to provide character and word counts, sentence and paragraph counts, various readability indexes, reading time, and even show progress toward your word target for the piece. Check it out!
marked
Whenever I link to an Amazon product on this blog, I use an affiliate link through the Amazon Affiliate program. They pay me a nominal amount for the referral and it doesn’t cost my users anything. I don’t always add a disclaimer for these links, but when I do I often mention that “clicking this link helps support the site.” It turns out — as pointed out to me by a reader (thanks Jean) — you’re not supposed to do that. But there is a standard disclosure provided by…
affiliate, amazon, blogging, html, jekyll, liquid, plugin, programming, snippet, tagging
As I mentioned previously, I’m working to make this site as respectful of privacy as it can possibly be. To that end, it was pointed out to me by a reader (thanks @maclm) that the comment system I’ve been using, Disqus, is actually pretty bad for privacy and tracking. Hilton Lipschitz wrote about this back in 2018, and I’m just slow to catch up, apparently. Since most people reply to me on Twitter anyway, I don’t have such lively discussions on the blog that I’m…
comments, privacy
Marked 2.5.31 is available via automatic update, the Mac App Store, and Setapp. It’s all fixes this time around, but I took care of a bunch of little bugs.
marked
I’ve made a few changes to my sites to be more in line with my own thoughts on privacy and security. When I’m using the internet, I use ad blockers, a VPN, and secure DNS on all of my devices, yet I’ve still been running websites that collect unnecessary data for Google and which don’t provide standard encryption. That’s changed, and more changes are coming.
browser, google, privacy, security, server
I’ve written for a variety of publications over my career. TUAW, Macworld, MacStories, and Lifehacker, to name a few. The vast majority of my writing happens right here in my own little world, though.
blogging, comments, personal, writing
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bookmarks, macos
