A big thanks — as always — to Smile for their support of BrettTerpstra.com. It’s an honor to have the makers of some of the most useful software on all of my computers and iOS devices sponsoring my work!
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I’ve been running iTextEditors (a grid comparison of available iOS text editors) for quite a while now, and am constantly asked what my favorite is in various categories. As far as long-form writing goes, I’m still not ready to make a public declaration (and there are new ones on the horizon that look very promising). As far as picking a personal winner in the note-taking category, though, I’m ready to declare my affections for a single editor that works perfectly in tandem…
ios, itexteditors, markdown, texteditor
I just published project called Reiki, a shell function that I’ve been using to make it easier to run the various (and often overly complex) Rake tasks that I use in a lot of my projects. The headline should probably have been “a stopgap for my convoluted Rakefiles.” To summarize, it turns:
reiki, ruby, terminal
I made an Übersicht widget to fix an Übersicht frustration. Actually, it’s a frustration with every desktop info app I’ve ever used: if you get it looking perfect on a dark desktop image, you can never use a light desktop image, and vice versa. I use multiple spaces and tend to distinguish them with wallpaper. I needed a way to make Übersicht work across them.
javascript, ubersicht
A big thanks — as always — to Smile for their support of BrettTerpstra.com. It’s an honor to have the makers of some of the most useful software on all of my computers and iOS devices sponsoring my work!
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I’ve been talking with the folks behind Fetching about future plans for the app. I’m excited about what they’re planning to offer (and what they already do), and wanted to pass on a coupon for 30% off of the service (or the locally-hosted native version).
bookmarking, deals
My favorite Mac mini colocation service, macminicolo, turned 10 today. There’s a great timeline post on their blog that chronicles the history of the Mac mini and of macminicolo itself. They didn’t ask me to post this, but they’ve been long-time supporters (and sponsors) of this blog and I’m excited to wish them continued success.
appreview, macmini, macos, server
Vitag has proven useful enough to me that I’ve added a bit of polish and some new features. I do think this is going to end up being a RubyGem eventually for ease of install, but at this point still only requires a single script file to run.
tagging, terminal, vitag
WinterFest goes for just a few more days, and it’s an effort that I’m proud to have sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. The idea of artisanal software is one that we really need, so be sure to check out the available titles!
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I’ve heard from a few people that this script might be useful to them. I’ve also created an “app” version of it you can run, but it still takes a wee bit of command line setup. It’s pretty simple, though, and I’ll cover that in a minute.
bookmarking, markdown, pinboard, safari
