Thanks to HoudahSpot for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! From now through October 2nd, you can pick up a copy for 30% off and support this blog at the same time. See the end of the post for a coupon code.
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If you write technical documentation for or blog about Apple products, you’ve probably pondered phrasing, capitalization, etc.. If you’re not familiar with it already, Apple publishes and updates a style guide that’s complete and useful for any kind of Apple-related writing. I’ve broken plenty of rules over my career, but I’ve been internalizing as many of these as I can, especially for software documentation.
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I revamped the UI for advanced MathJax configuration for the upcoming Marked 2.5 update I mentioned recently. The configuration is simply a field where you can input additional inline configuration options using the JSON syntax you’d find in a script tag in an HTML document.
cocoa, objective-c, programming
I’ve been accepting monthly, subscription-based donations from readers of this site without providing anything extra for the consideration. I sincerely appreciate all of the people who make continuous contributions—at any amount—and I’ve been planning out a way that I can give something back without making a paywall or writing good stuff that no one else can read. I have formulated a plan1.
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I get questions every single day on Twitter and in emails asking about the status of nvALT and the commercial successor I’ve talked about. Ultimately, this post is being written so that I can have a bot send a link to something every time it sees a tweet to me with the word “nvALT” and a question mark in it.
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bookmarks, color, sync
SearchLink 2.2.2 is up. Steve Lambert pointed out a bug in the Wikipedia search where a new redirect to SSL was causing SearchLink to fail on all !wiki searches. 2.2.2 fixes this.
macos, markdown, searchlink, service
On behalf of myself and the Giveway Robot1, I’d like to congratulate the five lucky winners of Dropzone 3.5 licenses from last week’s contest:
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Update: Version 1.0.1 is now the current download. Fixes Safari functionality and allows the optional use of a dotfile ( with the 5-digit Dropbox user id in it) instead of modifying the script directly.
automator, dropbox, macos, productivity, scripting, service, tools
