I noticed last week as I was working on show notes for Overtired #238 that SearchLink was returning raw search urls instead of the results I expected. I didn’t have time to look at it until this weekend, so I finished the show notes jumping back and forth between my editor and my web browser,…
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…
{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate8.start }} Flotato While nothing has ever lived up to an old Mac app called Fluid for me, there are a few good options for creating Single Site Browsers (Mac apps dedicated to a single web service) these days. Flotato is the fastest and lightest weight one I’ve seen, while still offering niceties like…
{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate5.start }} Enter Tapestry A cool new app from Iconfactory that blends multiple media sources into one list, complete with muting and management tools. You can even add your own sources with basic descriptor files. Devbox: Portable, Isolated Dev Environments Devbox creates isolated, reproducible development environments that can run anywhere without Docker or virtual…
I hope you’ve had nice holidays! I’ve updated my Bitlyize service to work with v4 of the Bit.ly API. It parses the input for all URLs and replaces them with shortened links connected to your account. Not only can this make long links more readable, it gives you some analytics on how often the links…