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I haven’t written about every episode of Systematic (or Overtired) for a long time. I really should, as there have been a slew of great guests in recent episodes. From Lex Friedman to a return appearance from Merlin Mann, a very interesting conversation with Belle Beth Cooper of Exist, and a supercut of the amazing John Roderick series.
overtired, podcast, systematic
I’m releasing a little side project called StretchLink today. It’s an easy-to-use tool for expanding shortened links, fixing redirects, and cleaning out referrer junk from Google Analytics and others.
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My previous post scheduling system revolved around the Unix command to schedule one-off future tasks. In the most recent version of OS X (10.10.4), that atrun command is utterly broken. Running , , or will give you:
jekyll, launchd, rake, ruby
I frequently use in the shell to get output to the OS X clipboard. I’m constantly using , and figured it would be worth making a little easier, so I wrote this little function this morning.
bash, macos, scripting, terminal
This post will only be of interest to Jekyll users, but if you want to start creating your own customizations to your Jekyll setup, this will be an easy start.
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MeisterTask, which I mentioned recently (also a previous sponsor), just launched the iOS version of their new productivity and project management tool.
applewatch, appreview, ios, productivity
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I edited a bunch of MultiMarkdown tables in Sublime Text 3 yesterday, and by about halfway through I’d developed a pretty good system. I thought I’d document a couple of tricks for my own future reference, and for anyone else it might help.
markdown, markdownediting, multimarkdown, sublimetext, texteditor
I have an always-on Mac mini that sits in the corner of my office. It toils away running staging servers for media, web development, and home automation. It also runs a lot of scheduled scripts.
macos, scripting, shell, terminal
Vecteezy has provided BrettTerpstra.com readers with an exclusive set of free network and database icons for web and app developers. The set includes layered, vector icons in Illustrator (AI), Photoshop (PSD), EPS, and PNG formats.
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VOX developer Coppertino released VOX for iOS yesterday, and it continues their tradition of amazing and beautiful software. I love VOX for Mac (previous review), and this new iPhone companion is a perfect complement.
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