Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.

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Transmit 5
This update of Panic’s FTP app, Transmit, adds new sync features (support for local-to-local and remote-to-remote), new speed improvements, but most interestingly, new cloud support for 10 services, including Backblaze B2, Box, Google Drive, DreamObjects, Dropbox, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace Cloud Files.
ohoachuck/wwdc-downloader: WWDC 2017 video downloader script
A downloader script for grabbing all of the WWDC 2017 videos. Written in Swift with no external dependencies.
Omni Group Automation
As mentioned by Sal Soghoian on Systematic, Omni Automation represents a huge step forward for iOS scriptability. Currently implemented in all Omni apps, this could essentially add AppleScript-like automation power to iOS.
Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design
equinux figured out how to make scannable promo codes (like iTunes gift cards) for iTunes and Mac App Stores. I don’t have an immediately useful application for this, but I see possibilities…
Connected Earth
A fun app for visualization of travel and communication connectedness around the globe. From the developers of Cosmic Watch.

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