{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate7.start }} Be My AI for Creating Photo Captions and Alt Text Allison Sheridan shares an awesome tool that, among it’s amazing capabilities, can create perfect ALT text for images you share on social media. It’s surprisingly accurate when describing images, and that kind of description is very important for disabled users. You should…
My 47th birthday was a few days ago. 11 years ago, I wrote a post on my birthday, detailing my addiction and recovery, and while I won’t go into the same points again, I thought I’d write something in the same vein. Shortly after my last (third) stint in rehab in my early 20s, I…
The Liiift giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Tucker Ksiazek Rebecca Owen Doug Lionetti Yinan Chen John Flavin 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 Liiift is still…
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($19.99 value each) for Liiift. I don’t lift much these days, but this app looks good enough to get me back into it. Liiift is a beautiful iOS app designed to help you get the most out of your weightlifting workouts. This giveaway is for lifetime…
I made a thing I think is pretty cool. It’s an indeterminate progress indicator for use in your scripts, inspired by the way Cursor indicates it’s working. In Cursor, when it’s generating or thinking, it shows some text that looks like a spotlight is panning across it. I figured it would be easy enough to…
Thanks to SaneBox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! Rather than the typical sponsored post, I’ve opened up the blog to a guest post from SaneBox’s Thomas Yuan. Not a typical thing for me, but I’m a huge fan of SaneBox and Thomas’ tools are a perfect fit for my readers (and my own preferences). Please…
{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate8.start }} This installment of Web Excursions owes a lot to Christina Warren’s GitHub stars. If you track GitHub stuff at all, you should definitely be following her. CMA Forms – Privacy-First Form Builder Build stylish, multi-step forms with exportable responses and no tracking. 100% free. steipete/macos-automator-mcp An MCP (Model Context Protocal) server to…
The Summit giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Denis Ricard Colleen Juri Frédéric FERRARE Marco Fraatz Jim Simpson Antonio Martínez García Mike Shaffer Sebastien Thugnet Yaaqoub Eliyyahu Panos Frantzis You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I…
{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate7.start }} Surf the Web Privately with Mullvad’s Global Network + Tailscale PSA: I mentioned the Mullvad VPN in a recent Web Excursions post, and said that I’d discovered the hard way that it didn’t work with Tailscale. I heard from a ton of people that there was actually an official integration for that.…
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($149.99 value each) for Summit. Summit is an elegant tool for making the most of meetings, from building agendas to keeping meetings on track with timers and other tools. If you’re in charge of meeting planning, whether for work or your personal clubs and groups, you…