TextMate as WriteRoom, for free

I use TextMate for editing most of my Markdown. I could name a dozen reasons why this is the case, but let's leave it at auto-pairing, wrapping and the Blogsmith Bundle features. Anyhow, I got a bug y

Pinboard redesign experiment

A Pinboard redesign built off of the styles started by Josh Pigford, I'm providing a bare stylesheet which works with StyleBot on Chrome and User CSS on Safari. The Chrome version can be installed str

Natural language date conversion for TextMate

I've been flirting with a plain-text to-do system again. The biggest problem for me is that a plain text system opens up so many possibilities for fiddling and scripting. I always end up fiddling more

Dammit. Again with the Lipsum.

I know, I said I was done with the Lorem Ipsum generators. Then Dr. Drang responded with a brilliant solution which doesn't require Internet access to generate some beautiful dummy text. I set it up a

One more time: TextExpander Lipsum snippets with kwisatz.hadera.ch

Ok, this is the last TextExpander Lipsum post, I promise (with my fingers crossed). I'm posting a full TextExpander group with all of the TextExpander random Lorem Ipsum generators I've posted so fa

LaunchBar actions for url encoding and decoding

I usually get up an hour or two before I start my work day and "play." Playtime usually results in half-finished scripts and deleted git branches, but sometimes I do something simple and useful (to me

TextExpander lipsum followup, with ice cream

It turns out it was me that was broken, not the Loremipscream API. That API can return just plain text, so the shell scripts are much more readable than trying to hack apart XML in Bash. You can get a

Quick calculations in Bash

This is probably going to seem stupid, but every time I decide to do something in Bash that should only take me a minute, I end up losing an hour. I obsess over "better" ways to do everything. Not sur

Random Lipsum for TextExpander

I hate it when I get an idea for something simple and end up spending an hour figuring out how to do it. I figured I'd make a post out of it to make myself feel better. It all started with my being di

Quick Tip: Multi-browser hotkey with Choosy

Riffing on my AppleScript to toggle an app between foreground and hidden, and inspired by Daniel Jalkut's script to toggle multiple Twitter apps, I wanted a way to do something similar with web brow

Bookmarklet: Read Pinboard links with Instapaper Text

Here's a quick bookmarklet you can run on any Pinboard page containing a list of bookmarks. It adds a "Read" link at the end of the edit links for each post, and clicking the link will open the post i

Notational Velocity ALT expatiation (and roadmap)

I'd just like to put it out there, as someone will eventually: Notational Velocity ALT (henceforth referred to as nvALT) is turning into something antithetical to the original premise of Notational Ve

Notational Velocity ALT 1.0 release

After a few late nights of off-hours programming, I'm putting Notational Velocity ALT out as a version 1.0. Obviously built on the backs of others, I'm just giving it a versioning scheme of its own to

Notational Velocity ALT 5.3

As usual with projects I didn't plan to take as far as I did, my version numbering scheme is, well, stupid. With the next release I'm going to implement my own feed for automatic updates, so I'll prob

Notational Velocity alternative MultiMarkdown version

Updated: the download link on this page now goes to the fourth revision, more information here.

After my experiment last night, and finding DivineDominion's already-awesome fork of Notational Velocit

Lunch-break bugfixes for Notational Velocity ALT

I'm going to have to build a project page for this, and probably set up a separate Sparkle feed for updates on this fork. I had a few minutes while eating my peanut butter and jelly, so I'm posting a

Notational Velocity and MultiMarkdown

You might want to check out the alternative version (which is more recent).

Update: I was just informed (see comments) about another fork of Notational Velocity which has implemented MultiMarkdown al

Markdown QuickTags: WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers

Introducing Markdown Quicktags, a new WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers! If you edit your blog in Markdown, whether you publish that way or not, this plugin will make your life almost 37% better. I

Pully: jQuery plugin for automatic pull quotes

Demo - Download

Another quick experiment. Honestly, I don't use pluggable functions in jQuery nearly as much as I should, so this is really just a brain exercise to get myself used to it. This one, c

PromptDown for iOS: Mobile Markdown Teleprompter

I recently wrote a tiny web app called PromptDown to let me drop in some Markdown (or plain text) and use it as a teleprompter for screencast voiceovers. I wasn't going to put any more time into it, a

Look, I made you a Markdown teleprompter

Be sure to check out version 2, with iOS support (iPhone/iPad)!

Here's my stupid trick of the day: a Markdown teleprompter called PromptDown (I see what you did there...). The idea was to create a

Automated search and link text Service

I've had this one laying around for a long time, so I thought I'd toss it out on the 'net and see if anyone else had a use for it. It's actually really handy, and a big timesaver. It takes selected te

Three things I discovered today

Amidst trying to get ready to launch a major website and playing with my own personal projects, I realized three things today. How important they are is debatable, and their usefulness depends entirel

Is your URL too short? Try our system, free!

I was sifting through my previous blog after Jeffery Zeldman kindly sent a lot of visitors in that direction for some TextMate starter tips. Whilst milling around, I stumbled upon an old trick I used

RedirectBuster, another late night Safari Extension

Okay, this one has a little refining left to go, but it seems to be working pretty flawlessly. I ported most of the code from a greasemonkey script. All I really want to add is a toolbar item that let

Delicious bookmarks and OpenMeta tags

There are quite a few things I love when it comes to my Mac. I love Spotlight. I love OpenMeta tagging. I love Evernote. I love being able to collect information from any source, and find anything I'v