It’s time for my yearly roundup of my favorite tools, hardware, and projects. I’m combining everything in one post this year. You might find something new, or you might just have your own preferences validated. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments! It’s been an interesting year. I lost my job in…
I’ve been busy improving Apex with some great new features and fixes. CSV tables, aria labels, and more. Here are the highlights from the latest release. Better Accessibility with ARIA Support Improved Plugin Installation Homebrew Installation Made Easy Script Injection and CSS Embedding Multi-file Document Modes Table Improvements Table header columns Inline CSV/TSV Tables Table…
I recently built a WordPress plugin specifically for my friend Allison Sheridan over at Podfeet Podcasts. She had a huge mind map she wanted to display on her blog — HTML embeds were messy and broke the site, PNG exports were unsearchable and impossible to navigate, and she didn’t want to just offer an OPML…
Last night I had a dream that someone had asked if they could write SearchLink plugins in Python. The answer was no, but it got me thinking. To be clear, no one has asked for this, but I did some Saturday morning coding anyway. You can now write a script in any language, and as…
I’m not going to lie, Obsidian is really cool. It’s a Markdown-based note system that has a ton of cool features, and even more with its healthy plugin community. I don’t see Obsidian as direct competition for nvUltra1, where the main focus is rapid note-taking and full text search, which nvUltra does a superior job…
I’ve made some important fixes and handy improvements to the Marked Conductor since it was first published. I’ve made my own config available as an example. Not all of the scripts are polished, but it’s complete enough to show how I’m using it. I still need to finish breaking my Jekyll preprocessor script into more…
So a lot of us are wondering what to do now that Toketaware has announced the sunsetting of the iThoughts mind mapping app for Mac and iOS. It’s very sad to see it go, but I expect the current version to continue working for a few years to come. That said, I tend to favor…
I’ve completed my latest side project, the Marked Conductor. Here’s the backstory: Marked 2 offers the option to use Custom Processors (and Preprocessors) which allow you use Markdown (and other) flavors with your own commands to convert them to HTML. This is commonly used for processing with Pandoc. Personally, I use it to process my…
It’s unseasonably warm for Christmas here in Minnesota. It’s 50° out. To mark the weird occasion, I created a quick plugin for SearchLink that lets you run a search like: !current 55987 And get: Weather for Winona, Minnesota on 2023-12-25 at 12:53 PM: 51.8 and Light rain The plugin only outputs ‘embed’ style, it won’t…