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Brett’s Favorites 2018

Jan 3rd, 2019

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Welcome to another year of my “best of” lists. I’m throwing it all into one post this year, so the list is a little shorter than years past. I have my reasons. design, keyboard, review, setapp, solutions, support

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Twenty Nineteen

Jan 2nd, 2019

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It’s harder than you might think to find a date-based stock photo with a tone anything less than “jubilant excitement.” All I wanted was 2019 in a shade of “cautious optimism,” but no. It’s all fireworks and sunrises. This one will have to do. blogging, health, marked, mentalhealth, overtired, personal, podcasting, support, systematic, writing

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Get the Most From Your PDFs With PDFpen

Dec 13th, 2018

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Thanks to PDFpen for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! pdf, sponsor

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Web Excursions for December 06, 2018

Dec 6th, 2018

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Web excursions brought to you in partnership with MindMeister, the best collaborative mind mapping software out there. bookmarks, siri

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Creativity and Distraction

Dec 4th, 2018

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Some of you may recall a publication created by Aaron Mahnke (now better known for Lore) called Read & Trust. It was a zine-style collection of works by a group of trusted bloggers. I was flattered to be included in it, and wrote a few pieces for it over the course of a year. answered, design, distraction, personal, reading, sleep

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Lucky Charms, a Light Color Scheme for Sublime Text

Nov 15th, 2018

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I’ve always used dark color schemes for coding. I never use dark themes for writing, and I’m not a fan of Dark Mode in Mojave, but for some reason I’ve always gravitated to light-on-dark for coding. I decided to try a change, and I’ve been quite happy with the results. design, sublimetext, themes

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PDFpen and PDFpenPro, the Ultimate Tools for PDF Editing

Nov 8th, 2018

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Thanks to PDFpen for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! pdf, sponsor

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Shell Tricks: Instant Wildcard Directory Search

Nov 7th, 2018

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Here’s a handy trick I use at the command line to quickly find filenames matching simple wildcard patterns in nested folders. It’s called because that’s essentially what it does: grep a list of filenames and return matches. bash, search, source, terminal

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Web Excursions for November 06, 2018

Nov 6th, 2018

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Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Setapp. Get access to hundreds of Mac and iOS apps for one low monthly subscription fee. bookmarks

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The Marked 2 NaNoShaNoWriMo Sale

Nov 5th, 2018

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It’s No-Shave November and National Novel Writing Month. I figured as long as we’re letting our body hair grow while toiling over literary masterpieces, I should probably make sure everyone has the best possible writing tools. fountain, markdown, marked, writing

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The Future of the TabLinks Safari Extension

Nov 4th, 2018

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A long time ago I wrote an extension for Safari called TabLinks. It simply generated Markdown lists of links to all the currently opened tabs. It’s been updated a few times over the years, but recent changes to Apple’s handling of Safari extensions has discouraged me from further updates. browser, extension, safari, service, tablinks, webdesign

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Web Excursions for November 01, 2018

Nov 1st, 2018

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Web excursions brought to you in partnership with MindMeister, the best collaborative mind mapping software out there. bookmarks, music

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Cammeleon: Privacy Made Simple

Oct 25th, 2018

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Thanks to Cammeleon for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! sponsor

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PopMaker 0.3

Oct 22nd, 2018

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I’m releasing a minor update to PopMaker, my little tool for creating custom PopClip extensions. I hadn’t realized that the icon feature had broken, but since I was in there fixing that I made a few other tweaks, mostly layout and error handling. macos, popclip, popmaker

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The New, Improved StyleStealer for Marked 2

Oct 18th, 2018

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I’ve updated the StyleStealer bookmarklet that I published a while ago. In addition to a bit more accurate styling, it can now add styles directly to Marked 2 (2.5.11 or newer) without requiring any file saving or manual adding in Marked’s preferences. bookmarklet, browser, css, javascript, marked, scripting

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