As I noted in my quick review, I love Whalebrew. Whalebrew has allowed me to use several tools I was too afraid of before in my day-to-day workflow. The biggest of these tools is Mermaid.
I’ve been using Mermaid for years to make quick and simple Gantt charts and other diagrams. Up to now, however, my workflow has involved saving my Mermaid file in a text document and copying and pasting the text into the online Mermaid generator when I need a new image.
Read more...It seems that each and every day there is a cool command line tool to try out to help automate or generally improve some part of my day-to-day. The problem with many of these tools, however, is that they require all sorts of dependencies (Ruby, Python, Node.js) each of which have their own package managers and sub-dependencies. Homebrew solves this for many things, but they are pretty picky about what they allow in, so more often than not, I’m left trying to decide if I risk messing up my machine by installing a web of dependencies or skip giving the tool a try. Not any more.
Read more...The PowerBook 1400 is the last PowerBook to have a real keyboard and is wellknown for having one of — if not the best — keyboards Apple ever put into a notebook. Several years ago, I bought a PowerBook 1400c off eBay as my grandmother’s first computer. She used it lightly for a few years to surf the Internet on dial-up AOL, but since 2003 or so, the PowerBook has been sitting in a box unused.
Read more...Almighty Father who is the source of all life, give thy servants an extra measure of thy grace that we, directing the intellect and energy thou hast gifted mankind, might so order our minds as to successfully configure and migrate the systems we steward to the service of thy Holy Catholic Church and to the glory thy Son, Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Spirit reign as one God, now and forever. Amen.
Réformd Éngliss utimpts tú províd an ézé sistim for ríténg Éngliss egzaktlé az it soundz. Natiraalé, Éngliss haz mané dílekts and it iz naat praktikl tú províd á pirfektlé funetik sistim. Réformd Éngliss orðaagrafé intindz to giv Éngliss a simplifíd ríténg sistim in the sám ván az uþir jirmanik lángwicez.
Bélow aar þu jiniraal soundz mád bí éc letir or letir kaambinássun in Réformd Éngliss orðaagrafé. Mor détáld rulz aar províded, but — in jiniraal — just rít lík ú spék. Þár aar no korekt speléngz in Réformd Éngliss orðaagrafé. If ú aar undirstood az á nátiv spékir win spékéng, þin yir ritin Éngliss wil bé undirstood az wel.
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Switching to plain-text notes using the Sublime Note package was a huge boon to my daily productivity. Not only was Sublime Text more stable than the previous alternatives, it used less memory, was easier to search thanks to Alfred/Spotlight, and — when paired with Dropbox — synched quickly across all of my devices.
My only problem was my inability to easily edit notes on my iPad. Yes, I could take my MacBook Air with me from meeting to meeting, but thanks to my Microsoft Universal Keyboard I was now too spoiled by my small and light iPad mini + keyboard setup. I needed an iOS plain text editor that synched with Dropbox.
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