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. fermyon/spin Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAsse … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a Single User Power Pack (£34 value) for Alfred 5. If you’re a Mac power user (or an aspiring power user), you can’t live without an app launcher. Alfred is one of the originals that continues to innovate, allowing you to launch and interac … | Continue reading
The Tally giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Bertrand Herpin Lemonnier Tedd Landgraf You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but T … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Backblaze. Back up everything. Weighted Hug A friend of mine launched these recently. I purchased one after trying it on at the launch party. It’s amazing. My breathing immediately slowed and the noise of the party became more bea … | Continue reading
I took a whack at making linkding look more like LinkWarden. I didn’t want to modify the source, so I did the whole thing using CSS only. It was an adventure. I’ve mentioned linkding a few times, and am now hosting all of my bookmarks with it. I switched from a hosted solution to … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 licenses ($29.99 value each) for Tally. Counting seems like a simple thing, but if you’ve ever tried to keep track of a total for a while, you know how nice it would be to have some assistance. Tally to the rescue! Easily keep multiple ta … | Continue reading
The Monodraw giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: René de Heer Jimmy Hartington Brenden Becherer Matt Zehner Parshva Shah Christian Arendt Norman Hawker Brian Dreau Tom Wolfe Thijs Hagen Juande Santander Ariel Cardieri Mark Levison … | Continue reading
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 20 licenses ($9.99 value each) for Monodraw. If you ever need to add ASCII art to a README or any text file, Monodraw is the best tool for creating it. From flow charts to mind maps, Monodraw’s drawing tools make adding boxes, lines, shapes … | Continue reading
The Name Mangler giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Troy Patterson Jim Simpson René Quesnel Billy Rowell D. Lee Grooms You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t wi … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with MindMeister, the best collaborative mind mapping software out there. Spafe Code – AI Code Translator Use AI to translate code from one language to another. Works really well in my brief testing. Copilot can probably do the same th … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($19 value each) for Name Mangler. Name Mangler is a brilliant piece of software designed specifically for renaming batches of files. You can build rulesets to handle all kinds of “mangling,” applying prefixes and suffixes, seque … | Continue reading
The ScreenCastsONLINE giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Christian Arendt You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but ScreenCasts … | Continue reading
I added linkding searching to SearchLink this morning. It works the same as Pinboard searching, just with !ld (or !ding) as the search shortcut. See the bottom of the Pinboard search page for configuration setup. No big deal, just updating to work with the tools I’m using. Get th … | Continue reading
I’ve completely switched from Pinboard to linkding for bookmarking. Mostly because Pinboard hasn’t seen development in years, and the creator is getting a little… weird, which makes me wonder about its future. Pinboard still works fine, but linkding is actively developed, has mos … | Continue reading
Linkwarden Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages. The objective is to organize useful webpages and articles you find across the web in one place, and since useful webpages can go away (see the inevitabili … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a 1-year subscription ($89.99) for ScreenCastsONLINE. I’ve learned so much from ScreenCastsONLINE. For tips, tricks, and in-depth how-tos on everything from OmniFocus to Obsidian, you can’t beat their informative and excellently-made videos … | Continue reading
The Typora giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Nicola Losito Jonathan Clark Michael Harrington Curtis Spendlove Neil Anderson You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I did … | Continue reading
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. What? Two web excursions in 7 days? In this economy? I just found some extra stuff over the weekend… Busy Status Bar — … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($14.99 value each) for Typora. Want to write Markdown without seeing Markdown? Typora offers a full Markdown editing experience that hides the symbols and syntax of Markdown, making your work easily readable and distraction free … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with NordVPN. Secure your internet browsing effectively and affordably. IndigoStack This is really cool. Bare metal performance for local web development stacks. Run multiple stacks with https, reverse proxies, whatever tech you need — … | Continue reading
The OmniPlan giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Ishan Mahapatra Chris Messina You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but OmniPlan … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 Universal Standard licenses ($199.99 value each) for OmniPlan. OmniPlan is the ultimate way to manage a project, seeing all of the moving parts at once with start and end dates for tasks, Gantt charts, support for automation workflows, an … | Continue reading
The Eloquent Javascript (e-book) giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Ciaran Connelly Davide Ricci Ingo Fischer Jasper Lai Scott Kopelchuk Peter Trist Tristan Wren J. Bolton Matthias Rempe Dave Robeson You should have received an em … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 [Eloquent Javascript] e-books ($39.99 value each). Whether you’re just getting into web development or are an old hand, this book contains excellent knowledge and tips for Javascript developers. The latest edition updates for current web … | Continue reading
The Moom giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Hadi Zainudin Dan McClain Nate Terpstra Tracy Jenkins Gavin Jerman Marco Onderstal John Miller Kris Schofield Cristobal Torres-Velez Michail Litke You should have received an email with … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Backblaze. Back up everything. Create VS Code Themes Easily - Theme Studio - The VS Code Theme Editor I’ve switched to VS Code (finally) and I’m mostly loving it. Started playing around with porting my favorite things and found VS … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($15 value each) for Moom. Whether you know it yet or not, window management on a Mac can change your computing life. Imagine being able to fly windows into organized dimensions and locations with the click of a button or the pr … | Continue reading
I recently revived Marky the Markdownfier. In case you missed it, Marky turns any web page into clippable Markdown for storage in notes/organization apps. And I could have left well enough alone, but there were a couple of quirks I wanted to fix. That led to… well, a complete gro … | Continue reading
The Screen Studio giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winner! Congratulations to Graham Hall! You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but Screen Studio is stil … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 1 Standard license ($89 value) for Screen Studio. I’ve long used ScreenFlow to create screencasts, and then discovered Screen Studio (thanks Mike Schmitz). If you just need to create a beautiful screencast with adjustable background, window … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Setapp. Get access to hundreds of Mac and iOS apps for one low monthly subscription fee. Usage A schema for CLIs that can be used to generate man pages, Markdown, and shell completion scripts. I might have to start implementing th … | Continue reading
The Keep It giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Toni Martinez Jan Dammshäuser Alex Trecartin You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 1-year subscriptions ($40 value each) for Mac and iOS for Keep It. Keep It from Reinvented Software is the perfect tool for people who want to collect notes, documents, web links, and more without locking their data into something like Ev … | Continue reading
I finally fixed Marky the Markdownifier. I didn’t do any updates to the interface as it is, in my opinion, not too bad. Marky is a tool for turning web pages into Markdown. It now uses Pandoc with GFM formatting. There’s an API available for outputting to various formats (includi … | Continue reading
The HoudahGeo giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Adam Oldakowski Stephen Hannam Steve Mattan Gary Burkhardt Theo Menezes You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t … | Continue reading
Shorly after publishing Planter, user cavalierex brought Cookiecutter to my attention on the forum. It appears to be a complete replacement and is far more mature than Planter. I don’t regret making Planter — it fits my own needs perfectly. If I’d known about cookiecutter before … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($39 value each) for HoudahGeo. Have you ever wanted a fully-fledged interface for automatically geocoding and geotagging your photo collection? HoudahGeo makes it easy to add locations in Apple Photos, iPhoto, and Aperture, and … | Continue reading
I did a redesign of this site last night. I hope you like it. It’s heavily inspired by the iA blog. Shamelessly inspired, I guess. But it was a fun exercise to revamp the Jekyll setup, which took a ton of work. I do not love templating in Liquid, but I do like writing filters in … | Continue reading
The Morpho Converter Pro giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Carley Knight Isaac Halvorson Özgür Irmak Giulio Galassi Peter B. You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I di … | Continue reading
Years ago (12!) I made a script called Planter that would generate directory and file structures based on an indented template. I decided to reimagine the whole thing and am happy to release Planter 3 today. Instead of relying on a single template file, Planter now expects a temp … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 lifetime Pro licenses ($19.99 value each) for Morpho Converter Pro. Morpho is an app for Mac, iOS, and Apple Watch that makes converting literally any number to any other unit possible. Miles to kilometers? Grams to ounces? USD to HKD? An … | Continue reading
7 years ago I wrote about a script I was using to generate changelogs for Marked. Since then I’ve continued updating the script to work with just about all of my projects, from Xcode projects to Ruby gems to scripts that just have a VERSION file in the same directory. It can outp … | Continue reading
The Obsidian Sync giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Donovan Watts Chip Morris Stefan Kuhle Florian Graessle Greg Wallace You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 1-year subscriptions ($96 value each) for Obsidian Sync. Obisidan is an amazing tool that’s free to use, but if you want to sync and share your vaults, settings, and more, you’ll want to upgrade with Obsidian Sync. This giveaway is for a … | Continue reading
The iStat Menus giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Bhaskar Bhat Leighton Price Robert Shaw Johan Romin Yinan Chen You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($11.99 value each) for iStat Menus. iStat Menus puts a bevy of system monitoring widgets right in your menu bar. Weather, CPU and GPU usage, Memory usage, date and time, network activity/bandwidth, battery and power, and disk us … | Continue reading
The SoundSource giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Tim Stevens Joe Wright Stuart Liddell You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, b … | Continue reading