Last month John Gruber mentioned a widespread complaint about Safari’s lack of favicons in tabs. I agree. So did Daniel Alm (developer of Timing), so he put together a helper app to do it.
browser, macos, safari
I just wanted to mention that today is the last day of the Learn Ulysses intro sale. Starting tomorrow the price will go up to $29, but you can still get the intro price of $23 for a few more hours.
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You may or may not recall my Sidecar jacket for Simplify, the macOS controller for Spotify and iTunes (and others). Sidecar is my “Minimalist Yet Huge” version, and I still use it every day.
macos, sideshow, simplify
If you like Ulysses, the powerful writing app for Mac and iOS, or even if you’re trying to figure out why you should like it, there’s good news today. Shawn Blanc and The Sweet Setup have released a new video series called Learn Ulysses.
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Let’s address the headline first. This post is about the tags on files that Apple started supporting in Mavericks. Up until iOS 11, they didn’t work on iOS devices, so they eventually became “Finder tags.” I think “Apple Tags” is going to have to be the nomenclature moving forward (now that they’re starting to work on iOS as well), but I don’t think it’s a widely accepted phrase yet. So I’ll use “Finder tags” for a little while longer.
macos, scripting, tagging, terminal, vitag
Here’s a quick script I swear I’ve written before but couldn’t find. If given a string as an argument, it converts it to seconds, and if given just a series of numbers, it converts the number to a human-readable string.
cli, ruby, scripting
This is a quick pointer to the 25% off sale that Creatable is offering on the Tower git client for Mac. Tower is my favorite Git client, and repeatedly one of my top apps, but it’s a steep price at the current $79 US. This link will bring it down to $59.
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Creating custom styles for Marked 2 is pretty easy… if you know CSS. I’ve started work on building an actual templating system, but it hasn’t come to fruition yet. In the meantime, I present styleStealer, a bookmarklet to make grabbing a site’s design and applying it to your Markdown preview in Marked a simple process.
bookmarklet, javascript, marked, scripting
I thought I’d share the script I’m using to generate changelogs for Marked releases using git commit messages. A lot of it is tailored to my own setup, and would require some customization to make it work with a different workflow. Also, it’s messy code, for which I apologize. Ultimately it should have just been a procedural script, but I started to go somewhere else with it before I realized that wasn’t what I was getting paid for.
developer, git
I’m at the CMD-D conference in Santa Clara this morning. I’m actually a couple hours early because my body is still on Central time. So I figured I’d take a minute and answer the most common question that I got after my last appearance on Mac Power Users.
tagging
Another in my irregularly-update series of Marked 2 tips and tricks. There are a lot of document navigation features in Marked, and many that have evolved since the last time I wrote about this. This particular tip is about Marked’s special tools for navigating long documents.
marked, tips
