I make a concerted effort to not curse online. I’ve broken that rule more often in recent years, but never cursing online for 20 years served me well. Especially these days on Facebook, where my family (and friends who don’t know me as well but actually see me face to face) frequent, it tends to be bad form. (Rory Vaden discusses this in Take the Stairs, and he and I dive in a bit on Systematic 126).
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Creatable is running a “Mac Pick A Bundle” promo right now where you can pick any 10 apps out of a list of 30 and pay $39. The app selection has some true gems (i.e. “things I would buy at full price”). You can see the full selection at the promo page.
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I’ve updated the Similarity bookmarklet that I posted yesterday. If you missed it, it’s a bookmarklet for desktop browsers that lets you quickly gather links in “Top X resources for…” type posts. It works on Product Hunt collections, “related posts” boxes, etc. By determining common characteristics of links, it does a pretty good job of only selecting links of the same type as you clicked.
bookmarklet, browser, javascript
How many times have you visited a post with a list of resources, e.g. “15 resources for free stock photos,” and wished you could just grab them all at once? I don’t know about you, but it happens to me frequently.
bookmarklet, browser, javascript
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.
apple, writing
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.
newsletter, suppport
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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