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As many of these updates seem to, this one started with a bug report from my friend Jay Miller, which caused me to run the test suite on SearchLink and discover a few things had broken since I last looked at it. So you get an update. Aside from fixing bugs that had cropped up,…
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The TextBuddy giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Patrick Ahles Philip Davis Peter Versteegen Jim Krenz René de Heer Stephen Lowry David Nieporent Mijalche Santa Lari Kovanen Hans verschooten You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I…
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Ok, so you may or may not have heard of my Howzit project, so I’ll begin by recapping. “Howzit” is a contraction of “how does it” that allows you to query any project with commands like howzit build or howzit deploy and get documentation, as well as automatically execute the necessary steps for a task.…
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($35 value each) for TextBuddy. For anybody who deals with text, whether you’re composing, coding, or just emailing, TextBuddy is an indispensible tool that makes transforming and working with text a breeze. It’s fully extensible, too and you can extend it to perform custom actions in…
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The PopClip giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: G Kolstad Andrew Buckingham Alan McCoy Curtis Spendlove Peter Morgan-Tansley 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 PopClip is still…
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I published a script yesterday for creating a “bundle file” of all binaries (executables) on your system that rely on Rubygems to install. These aren’t covered by Homebrew’s bundle command and I wanted easy system restore via my dotfiles setup. But… because it deals specifically with gems, I figured why not make it a gem…
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I’ve always liked Homebrew’s bundle command. You can save a snapshot of everything you’ve installed with Homebrew, and then reinstall the snapshot on a new system. I also like Ruby’s Bundler, which lets you save all of the gems needed by an application and then install them easily with bundle install. However, I don’t like…
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($24 value each) for PopClip. You know how when you select text on iOS, you get a little popup with operations like copy and paste? What if you could have that on your Mac? And if the menu options that show were customizable and powerful? That’s…
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The Backblaze giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Diana Saldaña 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 Backblaze is still worth checking out. If you live in…
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a 1-year subscription ($99.99 value) for Backblaze. I use a 3-tier backup system: local clones, Time Machine, and Backblaze for cloud backup. Backblaze is the easiest, most affordable way to get an offsite backup of all your data, with versioning and easy restore when things go wrong. From…