January 2012
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Interesting Links - Week 3, 2012
Diurnalize - Silly daily challenges.
Steven Frank: Notes - Who doesn’t love Steven Frank? Guy knows his shit.
iBooks Author - Announced by Apple this week, I think this could be a game changer for digital publication.
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Evernote and MarsEdit
I use MarsEdit to post most of the articles (if you want to call them that) I write here. It’s a great application, but I don’t like writing draft posts in it because there’s no way for me to access them when I’m not on my Mac (at least not until Daniel gives us MarsEdit for iOS). I’ve tried to write my drafts in text files stored in Dropbox using vim, TextMate, nvALT...
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Interesting Links - Week 2, 2012
Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction - Pretty self-explanatory.
TThor Newsletter - Long list of interesting links, delivered to your email inbox every week.
The Kingdom of Loathing - Ever wanted a pet sabre-toothed lime? Have an urge to celebrate the Festival of Jarlsberg? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then this the online game for you. But even if you didn’t, forget...
BBEdit
A couple of good, detailed posts about BBEdit this week. Not an editor I use on a regular basis, but I’ve tried it a few times here and there. It doesn’t suck.
Macdrifter - Moving Text Editors: Taking BBEdit Seriously:
What I’ve discovered is that BBEdit is an incredibly complicated and simple tool. It’s a plain text editor on the surface, but it’s highly customizable (like...
RAW Week at Boing Boing →
Speaking of Bob:
Over the next week, Boing Boing will be posting a series of remembrances, interviews, videos, and other material about Robert Anton Wilson that we hope will astonish and delight you, too.
My Favorite Author
Various members of the Read and Trust network spent November writing about their favorite authors. Since I’m not nearly cool enough (and let’s be honest probably never will be cool enough) to belong to a group of such excellent writers, I thought I’d share mine here: Robert Anton Wilson. You’ve probably never heard of him.
I first came across Bob’s work while I was...
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Interesting Links - Week 1, 2012 →
Slow week….
The James Joyce Checklist - A huge database of primary and secondary works related to James Joyce.
Code Year - A new programming lesson automatically sent to you every week. I’m in. (via Brent Simmons)
Brett Terpstra - Some of my Favorite Mac apps in... →
When Brett says an app is good, you listen.
An Interview With Notational Velocity Developer... →
I think in Notational Velocity you can see the genesis of this wave of text editors and note taking applications we’re currently riding. I switched to nvALT when it first came out, but that application wouldn’t have existed without the original.
Macdrifter - Safe URL System Service →
A nice example of how to integrate Python with Automator. I can definitely see myself using this in the future.