Tag: markdown


  • I’ve released v4 of md-lipsum, my API for generating Markdown Lorem Ipsum. This update introduces expanded source options, new query parameters for enhanced functionality, and is powered by the new ‘random-words’ Ruby gem. Try the new API: https://brettterpstra.com/md-lipsum Share Your Shortcuts! If you use the API to create any Apple Shortcuts, System Services, command line…

  • A quick look at Marked 3

    Since leaving Oracle I’ve been hard at work on Marked 3, and holy cow it’s a huge update. I expect to have the beta out in the next week or two. When it’s ready it will be available as a subscription directly via Paddle or the Mac App Store, and all Setapp users will get…

  • I’ve published an entirely reworked version of my Markdown Lorem Ipsum API. It’s a fix, but also a major improvement. The md-lipsum API gives you Lorem Ipsum in Markdown format, ready for use in testing and tools. The original version of it used an external API to generate the Lipsum, but that API has disappeared…

  • I’ve published a few updates to SearchLink since we last talked, some bigger than others. Here’s a rundown of what’s new. URL Shortening First, I added more built-in URL shortening. In addition to Bit.ly shortening, you can now use is.gd or TinyUrl. Bit.ly and TinyURL require an API key, so see the configuration for details…

  • I wrote a pretty basic script a long time ago that converts TaskPaper files to Markdown for nice previewing/publishing. I recently updated it with a bunch of modernizations. I originally wrote this script (*goes to check*) — jebus, fifteen years ago. I guess I’ve been doing this stuff for a while now. Anyway, the original…

  • This morning I pushed a pretty large update to the Readwise to DEVONthink script I published yesterday. It adds some important features, so if you’ve already downloaded the script, you might want to update. The previous version worked fine, but there were a couple of things it needed to do better. First, it was failing…

  • Readwise is an awesome power-user tool for reading web articles, newsletters, and even e-books. DEVONthink is an amazing tool for building connected knowledge bases. Today I’m releasing a script that saves Readwise highlights to DEVONthink as annotated Markdown files, bringing the two together. It’s pretty handy. I started trying out Readwise shortly after I started…

  • I recently posted a script I was using to archive my linkding bookmarks to Markdown files in nvUltra. I’ve since started digging into DEVONthink and have updated the script to archive my bookmarks there. I still use my bookmarks with nvUltra by indexing a notebook in DEVONthink and saving the bookmarks there. Most of my…

  • I’ve been obsessively into DEVONthink lately. Once I’ve truly explored it, I’ll write more about that, but in the meantime I wanted to share a handy integration for those already using it. I’m very aware that DEVONthink has a great clipper. Whether you’re using bookmarklets, browser plugins, or the Sorter directly, it can grab a…

  • 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…