An Amazon shop for things Brett reviews on the blog or podcasts. Or just stuff he thinks is awesome.
A selection of T-shirts, mugs, and calendars based on Brett's Dimspirations
My primary commercial application, a Markdown previewer that updates live while you edit in your favorite text editor.
Rock Scissors Merchandise. Rock and roll typography on T's, mugs, stickers and more.
The Lab Merchandise. T-shirts, mugs, stickers and more.
The things I do when I'm not doing the things I get paid for. I give most of it away for free (donations accepted), so dig in and see if any of these projects can help your workflow or inspire some coding mad science of your own. You can find everything else on the Downloads page.
A command line tool for checking how long you've been AFK
Save a bundle of all your gem binaries for easy restore
A collection of PopClip extensions for Markdown writing and more
Experiments with Spotify, Apple Music, and Last.fm
A batch application launcher for your Dock
The groundwork for building your own set of hotkey-triggered popup cheat sheets for use while you work.
A CLI for handling multiple Marked 2 Custom Processors with conditionals
A command line helper for curl and web scraping.
Nihilist inspirations for your daily life
A command line utility for keeping track of what you're doing and tracking what you did.
A command line tool for gathering web pages as note-ready Markdown
A Command Line Utility for Hook.app
A tool for command-line tracking of project build systems
My unweildy chart showing over 70 iOS text editors with a comparison of features.
A CLI for journaling with support for JSON, Markdown, and Day One.
Auto-tagging and tag manipulation for Jekyll/OctoPress blogs
My OS X KeyBindings experiments.
A Keyboard Maestro macro that expands a date using natural language
A collection of OS X Services designed to make writing Markdown text easier in any application.
The barebones beginnings of a Markdown editing bundle for Sublime Text 2.
An API for generating Markdown Lorem Ipsum
A utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in Terminal
"Next Action" script for command-line reading and writing of "@na" tasks in a TaskPaper format file. It can also run as a prompt hook and offer reminders as you cd.
A script that creates an HTML playground of a Mac app's menus, ready for screenshots
Brett's podcast with Christina Warren. Two ADHD nerds with lots to talk about.
Create directory trees instantly from templates.
Automated podcast ID3 tagger
A CLI for converting RegExRX native files to Markdown.
An intelligent (and forgiving) shortcut for running complex Rake command line tasks
A nifty System Service for running various types of searches automatically as you work in Markdown, filling in the results as links without having to open a web browser.
A PHP-based tool for creating a custom URL shortener
A CLI for accessing code snippets contained in a folder of plain text Markdown files.
A web API for title casing
A jQuery plugin for generating summary blocks on long posts
An OS X Action Extension for popup URL previews
A CLI tool for batch editing OS X file and folder tags in your text editor
A little WordPress widget to display your GitHub stars.
Retired projects are simply not receiving attention anymore. They may have broken due to changes in underlying software/technology, or they may still be fully functional and I just stopped working on them. They're mostly here as a record.
A multimedia book for iBooks, filled with screencasts to turn Mac users into Power Users
A multimedia book for iBooks, filled with screencasts to turn Mac users into Power Users
A browser bookmarklet for saving StackExchange answers to Markdown or directly to nvALT
Connect WordPress tags to the TextMate blogging bundle with auto-complete and suggestion features.
A file size conversion Service.
A CLI to add a Reminders.app reminder and/or OmniFocus task so you don't forget about that repo you cloned to play with later
Turn your iPhone into a cough button for podcasting using a local, PHP-enabled web server.
A service for attaching extra notes using wiki syntax across multiple apps
A bookmarklet for capturing Markdown links from any part of a web page
An application to quickly search and retrieve an icon for any iOS or Mac App Store app
A bash utility for logging/debugging
A WordPress plugin for editing Markdown in the standard WordPress editor. Adds auto-pairing, smart lists, link conversions, render/preview in place and more. It’s pretty, too.
A video on Markdown produced for Peachpit's Learn By Video series
Marky turns your web pages into readable Markdown, stripping cruft and "Markdownifying" the html.
A fork of Notational Velocity with full MultiMarkdown support and additional editing/interface features.
nvremind (pronounced "never mind") scans files for @remind tags and triggers reminders.
A command line interface for OmniFocus with natural language recognition and fuzzy string matching for projects and contexts.
Collect your Pinboard bookmarks as local webloc files that you can thumbnail, index and tag with OpenMeta for local searches.
A bookmarklet for capturing Markdown links from any part of a web page
My system for collecting knowledge in an easy-to-parse, memorable-to-search plain text format. It's a command line tool usable from LaunchBar and Alfred and compatible with nvALT.
A minimalist yet oversized jacket for Simplify.
Automatically log your online social checkins and activities to Day One or Markdown files.
A podcast featuring interviews with people from all walks of life about what makes them tick
Safari Extension to save all open tabs as a Markdown list
A command line tool for storing and restoring OS X tags on files.
A set of tools and snippets for TextExpander with a special interface that lets you subscribe or download using your own custom prefix for the triggers.
An OS X System Service for adding titles to urls with truncation, junk removal, and affiliate tagging
A bash function to track where all your bash functions are coming from.
A collection of Übersicht widgets
These are all the downloadables (120 and counting), mostly without their own project pages, and many unsupported at this point, though I'm often interested in updating old stuff. Let me know if anything sparks your interest.
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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