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  • Strikethrough and emojis for mdless

    January 13, 2025
    Code

    I just published a couple of new features to mdless this morning: strikethrough and GitHub emoji support. You can now use ~~text~~ formatting, and if your terminal supports strikethrough text, it will be displayed as such. You can control formatting and colors by adding deletion to your theme file, which by default is ~/.config/mdless/default.theme: yaml…

  • Setapp giveaway!

    January 13, 2025
    Blog, Giveaways

    I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 6-month subscriptions ($59.95 each) for Setapp. A lot of the giveaways I’ve been running are also available on Setapp. And the reason a lot of readers don’t enter is because they’re already getting these apps for one monthly payment of $9.99. There are over 250 high-quality apps…

  • My “remote” web development setup

    January 12, 2025
    Code

    Recent changes in my health have made it such that some days I’m couch-bound upstairs, while my office (and primary work computer) is in the basement. This has led to some interesting solutions for my daily work. My day job at Oracle I can mostly do from my couch and my work laptop. The only…

  • The Chronicling giveaway winners!

    January 11, 2025
    Blog, Giveaways

    The Chronicling giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Brian Petran Aaron Hockley Preben Arentoft 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 Chronicling is still worth checking out. Start…

  • A StretchLink Shortcut

    January 9, 2025
    Code

    Immo Junghärtchen shared a Shortcut for StretchLink.cc on the forum, and I’ve modified it slightly for my own needs. Find both below. The original shortcut can be found on the forum, but here’s a direct link. Thanks to Immo for getting this started. I created my own version specifically for outputting Markdown links, with a…

  • Habit Traffic: A Unique Approach to Habit Tracking

    January 8, 2025
    Code

    Eric Linder, whom I affectionately call my Rabbi1, has created a habit tracking app with a twist, and it’s ready for wider testing. He had a need for something that didn’t exist, so he built it. He did it in maybe three weeks, using AI to learn how to code it. I’m really impressed how…

  • Chronicling giveaway!

    January 6, 2025
    Blog, Giveaways

    [note] get codes and double check pricing [endnote] I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 1-year subscriptions ($9.99 value each) for Chronicling. If you’re trying to build a new habit or track progress on any kind of activity, Chronicling provides all the tools you need, with beautiful charts to show your progress. Whether its…

  • Stripping Emoji from a string

    January 4, 2025
    Code

    I often need to strip emoji from strings to prevent them from messing up other handling. I’ve been compiling regular expressions and I think I finally have all the bases covered. This example is in Ruby, but the regular expressions are easy to adapt to any language: [gist bf121c6a199bc20c7f3085c50cd6d175] I’ve already ported this to Swift…

  • The Simple Scan giveaway winners!

    January 3, 2025
    Blog, Giveaways

    The Simple Scan giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Shaun Hevey Dave Robeson 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 Simple Scan is still worth checking out. Scan…

  • Web Excursions for January 2nd, 2025

    January 2, 2025
    Bookmarks

    {{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate2.start }} alexwlchan/safari-webarchiver Save web pages as Safari webarchive files from the command line. H/T to Stephen Millard I’ve incorporated this into my linkding archiving script so that a webarchive file is saved alongside the Markdown version of archived bookmarks. Note that if you have SIP enabled, you won’t be able to use the…

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