I have dozens of aliases and functions available in any shell in any terminal on any of my machines. If I add Homebrew installs and PATH priorities, it can be a lot to keep track of. terminal

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I love PopClip, and have done quite a bit of hacking around with it. Once you get used to it and come to expect it popping up, the only annoyance is that all your handy tools aren’t there when you make a keyboard selection, or when you accidentally dismiss the popup before you choose the extension to run. Easily fixed, fortunately. bettertouchtool, keyboard, popclip

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If you’ve ever copied a shell command from somewhere and accidentally included a trailing newline, you know that hitting paste in your terminal can run the command before you have a chance to edit it. There are a few ways around this, but here’s a quick tip for iTerm 2 users. keyboard, shell, terminal

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I’m officially announcing SearchLink 2.2.0 today. It’s still free (for now), and I’m really excited about this update. The documentation has been updated and the changelog is immense. markdown, searchlink, writing

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I write a lot of Services using Automator these days. They usually consist of one “Run Shell Script” action and possibly a few other Automator tasks. Editing a script in the Automator text fields is a horrible experience, so I end up doing a lot of copy-switch-pasting between my editor and Automator. This script lets me make the process simple. automator, ruby, scripting

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This will probably be part of SearchLink someday, but I decided to stop adding features and get that shipped as soon as possible (just have to rewrite most of the documentation). So here’s this piece of it as a Service and a CLI. ruby, scripting, service

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