Mike Vardy, friend, Systematic guest, and productivity strategist (among many other things), is offering an online workshop called Beyond Productivity tomorrow, Tuesday, May 26.
productivity
Following most of the same patterns as TextMate snippets, Sublime Text snippets can be a great timesaver. One of the things I’ve been doing recently is assigning keyboard shortcuts to snippets instead of tab expansions, allowing me to apply them to selected text with the placeholder. That, combined with some text mutation offers some serious timesaving options. To illustrate, I thought I’d share a couple of very handy logging snippets.
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Thanks to Working Copy for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I searched a long time for a good way to work with Git repositories on iOS, and Working Copy is the most powerful I’ve found.
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I’ve become an even bigger fan of Sync since BitTorrent released 2.0, so I thought I’d mention the 2.0.120 update they posted yesterday.
apps, ios, macos, windows
Ok, so I teased “The Shuttle” a while ago, but it’s ready for sale now. It’s a handmade oak holder for the Apple Remote that looks great with the sleek design of the remote. Its raison d’être is to keep you from losing your Apple Remote, and doing it with class and style.
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Tinderbox 6.2, industrial-strength notes sponsor (Apr 30th) Thanks to Tinderbox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this last week! Be sure to check out the latest release of this full-featured organization tool. Rock Paper Wallpapers (May 1st) I’m quite happy with this round of typographic wallpapers based on classic rock/punk song lyrics. At least one of these is going to become a t-shirt. My hackable vegetarian sandwich (May 3rd) Hungry? A basic recipe for a great-tasting hot…
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Joshua Howland, Caleb Hicks, and Andrew Madsen launched a Kickstarter called “Wired In” today. It’s a Bluetooth-enabled desktop sign that lets co-workers know when you’re busy. It has the obtuse effect of shutting an office door in an unobtrusive package… that doesn’t require having your own office.
bluetooth, hardware, kickstarter
As some know, almost 2/3 of my daily diet consists of a flavorless food substitute, which sounds horrifying to many. The thing is, I love food and I enjoy cooking. I just don’t like cooking more than once a day, and I don’t like eating too many frozen meals and processed foods when I’m not feeling like cooking. When I do cook, however, I like the experimentation side.
personal, recipe
Not that I plan to make a habit of “Friday Freebies,” but here’s a little something I’ve been playing with for a while. It’s not an app. It’s not even functional. Just a series of rock-lyric-inspired typographic wallpapers for iOS and desktop. I didn’t output every possible pixel size, but the primary ratios you need are there for standard, widescreen, and iPhone 6/plus.
freebie, wallpaper
CloudCannon is running a free online conference for “all things Jekyll” this weekend. If you’re interested in learning more about the static site generator, you can join in to hear from a great lineup of eight speakers, including Tom Preston-Werner (a.k.a. mojombo, creator of Jekyll), and Parker Moore (current Jekyll Core Team lead).
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