Yesterday I had 3 apps in top 20 charts on the MAS at once. I feel like I'm succeeding at this, we'll see how long it keeps up. TerminalWidget is still in #1 Paid Developer Tools 😁.
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Someone(s) destroyed 7 Flock cameras in my town and I think they deserve a party and a medal.
I have a 35k line JavaScript file that's become unmanageable. For the next major version, I'm rewriting it from scratch. 35k lines for a single feature. That's insane.
Acorn from Flying Meat has always been amazing. On my mind today because if you're creating screenshots for a Mac app, its ability to capture the entire screen as a layered image where you can drag windows around, hide windows and elements, etc. is friggin' outstanding.
Welp, that's a full week in the #1 spot on Developer Tools for TerminalWidget. Nice.
For those listening to Ben and @daringfireball@mastodon.social on Dithering, he was talking about nvALT, not nvUltra. nvUltra should be out in the next 2 months and is NOT open source. nvALT will probably be updated for Silicon around the same time, for those who prefer to just keep using it.
NV has had some PRs submitted for Apple Silicon conversion, easy to pull from the upstream, if you know what you're doing and want to do it yourself. I'm confident nvUltra is different enough and better in many ways that will make it a worthwhile switch for nvALT users. We'll see.
I’m officially announcing FileRouter today, and it's available now at https://filerouter.app. I won't be doing any major marketing until the Setapp version is available and I have time to launch on Product Hunt, but if you're interested, you can grab it now.
It was a bi-lateral day. Got both sides of my big toe nail cut out and treated with some chemical so they don’t grow back, and then an hour later I was on a table getting shots through both sides of a vertebrae. Hopefully all this will be a good thing.
The more I learn about LastPass the more I full-throatedly support 1Password.
Suited up with my protective wards.
Added some utility functions like “Open in Terminal” (with configurable terminal app) and “Reveal in Finder" to the latest version of FileRouter. Check it out at https://filerouter.app
My feelings haven’t changed in the last 30 years.
I'm calling the macOS version of TerminalWidget done. Working on the iOS version this week. Added a video to the homepage showing a lot of its functionality, in addition to the full widget gallery. Check it out!
users->figlet, cal, network speeds, time machine progress, API check, a prompt hook that updates the one in the lower left every time I change directories in Terminal and shows me my next actions (using NA), and a few showing output from my Doing project at different sizes/formats.
Submitted to TestFlight this morning to find out how much of this Apple will let me get away with.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out https://terminalwidget.app
After many a years of being who I'm known as today, it always surprises me when people are surprised that I'm as helpful as I can be to anyone who asks. Conversely, I'm surprised by people who feel they need to attack me in order to get help or support, which fortunately is less common.
Just realized the excellent @murmel_social@mastodon.social is available for Bluesky with your same account. If you're looking for a digest of all the links on your timeline (Bluesky and/or Mastodon) or popular with friends (Bluesky), it's worth checking out. Daily digests in your inbox.
Lately on the blog: One more for the road: FileRouter
Lately on the blog: Better Graffiti for Moe
I'll come back and finish this once Marked 3, nvUltra, and BlogBook are live, but here's what I've been working on for a while now:
(big missing video at the top will show the CLI updating the macOS widgets, and maybe how they're mirrored to iOS)
I’m talking, surprise, Markdown at Macstock this year. Use code ttscoff for a discount on tickets.
MacVoices #26113: The Road to Macstock with Brett Terpstra — MacVoices https://macvoices.com/macvoices-26113-the-road-to-macstock-with-brett-terpstra/
I dropped my MBP and broke the screen yesterday. I ssh’d in and made sure all my git repos and dotfiles were pushed, and that my clone drive was up to date. Don’t know why hooking up an external display wouldn’t work, but did eventually get screen sharing to work.
Now I get to find out how useful AppleCare+ actually is.
I'm setting up a new MBP from “scratch" and the more I try to port old configs the worse things get. I might actually have to build this up one tool at a time. Nothing makes you more aware of how many customizations you have than starting from zero.
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The real question is “what's more American than being at work at 2am on the 4th of July, which, to be clear, was a Saturday?” Capitalism will kill us all.
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@superpixels@mastodon.social @evacide@hachyderm.io I make every zoom meeting weird, and I’m *pretty* sure I was that way *before* working from home for 20 years.
Added a matrix mode to terminal-widget. Just pass it a series of integers and it will map them with the highest value being solid and the lowest value being .1 alpha. Everything else gets alpha mapped in between.
Watching old Stephen Wright clips and imagining Steven Miller delivering those lines. I think it could work as an alternate career.
Let’s take a moment to silently imagine a middle eastern zombie hopping around with a basket of unfertilized ova.
Nice new feature available in the latest Hookmark beta:
https://hookproductivity.com/help/clean-my-links/
Cleans tracking and other cruft from any link you copy. Kind of like the StretchLink app I built but retired (not to be confused with http://stretchlink.cc, which is a similar but different project of mine).
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@Haroldina@mastodon.xyz @ultranurd@tacobelllabs.net Does your reasoning have anything to do with peanut butter?
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@Haroldina@mastodon.xyz @ultranurd@tacobelllabs.net I blame capitalism for everything too.
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@ultranurd@tacobelllabs.net No, we just hate the gray duck. But I grew up in Michigan, so I played duck duck goose like a normal person.
Got my 50th reverse rainbow in Connections today.
Added stenosis to my list of diagnoses today. It’s a long list.
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This *should* have been what the Dems aired after the SOTU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0OaeMYTbs4
The Big Lebowski - Shut The F*ck Up Donny!
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@Haroldina@mastodon.xyz @ultranurd@tacobelllabs.net I can't believe I let you respond to my trolling with trolling and I fell for it.
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@dtj@mast.hpc.social That's part of the problem. I let AI help me make it more complicated than it needed to be and now it's to the point where it's less work to start from scratch than to try to patch it.
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@stefanpauwels@mastodon.social I'll be honest, I haven't used it in a while. I've only needed DEVONthink To Go for retrieving notes on the go, and I only use Drafts for taking notes on my phone, sending them to nvUltra later. Happy to try your solution, though!
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@ender3@infosec.exchange Yeah, I still use it, and nothing else really fits the bill for me. I can't remember when the last beta update was, but it's definitely seen more beta updates than main channel. He's said he's working on some big changes, but I think it's been about 6 months since we heard from him.