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.
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with CleanShot X, the absolute, hands-down best app for Mac screenshots. Get one of my all-time favorite apps here.
Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly
The App Store era must end and the solution is already here.
Mints is a growing collection of tools which provide tailor-made log extracts for investigating problems and exploring macOS, collate various information about a Mac which can be difficult to find elsewhere, perform a set of tests on Spotlight, and provide specialist tools for certain types of data.
Useful for investigating QuickLook plugins now that qlmanage is basically useless on Sequoia.
These shortcuts for Bluesky work on the web and the app – jump directly into any section. Plus, build out your List dictionary.
If you, like many others, are getting into Bluesky, these might be helpful. I’m still mostly on Mastodon (and plan to continue to be), but Bluesky (find me here) is more attractive to me than Threads (here) as an alternative.
I do all of my screenshots and screen recordings with CleanShot X. I love it to pieces. You should get it.
Brett is a writer and developer living in Minnesota, USA. You can follow him as ttscoff on Twitter, GitHub, Mastodon, and elsewhere.
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