I’m not a security expert. This post is an opinion interlaced with the things I’ve learned from sources I have faith in. Feel free to clarify or correct me in the comments.
ios, macos, security
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bookmarks, icons
Thanks to MightyDeals for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! If you’re looking for an easy way to build a Bootstrap site, this is a great bundle.
sponsor
Here’s another fun icon set from FreeVectors.net: Retro Social Media icons. The download includes PSD, EPS, and AI files, so they’re easy to customize. It’s free, go for it…
design, giveaway
Agile Tortoise produces my favorite iOS dictionary app, Terminology. It uses WordNet as its lexical reference, and until now I haven’t found an elegant equivalent on OS X.
productivity
Thanks to everybody who entered in the Painless tmux giveaway! And congratulations to the lucky winners. If you didn’t get an email from the Giveaway robot, please contact me!
books, giveaway
I built a quick Action Extension for OS X 10.10+ this morning. It’s called “Preview URL,” and it lets you select text containing a URL, then shows a preview of that web page in a popup.
macos, urlpreview
You may or may not be familiar with tmux, a powerful terminal multiplexer that lets you switch between multiple terminal emulators with configurable panes and windows, as well as detach processes and keep them running in the background. Whether you’re new to the idea of multiplexing, or switching from something like screen, Nate Dickson has an e-book to help you out: Painless Tmux.
books, giveaway
I’ve updated my fork of Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Quick Look plugin with TextBundle support. It’s a seamless upgrade and maintains custom styles if you have one installed.
macos, markdown, multimarkdown, quicklook, textbundle
MindNode 2.0 for Mac is out today. It’s being sold as a new app with an intro price of $19.99 US. That will go up to $29.99 after the intro sale.
brainstorming, mindmapping, productivity, review
Darren Murph, whom I had the pleasure of working with at Engadget for a few years, has published Living the Remote Dream: A Guide to Seeing the World, Setting Records, and Advancing Your Career, a book on the topic of working remotely.
books, review
