Apex just grew a native Rich Text Format writer. That means Markdown can become something macOS apps already understand: Pages documents, files, and — with a little pasteboard care — rich text you can drop straight into Mail.
apex, html, macos, markdown, scripting, shorcuts
People are digging TerminalWidget, which I’m both surprised and delighted by. I really wasn’t sure people would “get” it when I first started working on it (all the way up to the day I launched it). The most common review, though, is some form of “this looks awesome but I don’t know what to do with it.”
scripting, terminal, terminalwidget, widgets
Graffiti Moe started as a terminal thing on purpose. a random spray, slap one up with a one-liner, feel like you’re tagging a wall that only nerds walk past. Fun. Also… a little exclusive.
graffiti, macos, menubar, opensource, terminal
Widgets that just sit there and look pretty are fine. Widgets you can tap into are better. TerminalWidget now leans into that with markdown links in body text and table cells, plus a proper launcher button footer.
launcher, linking, markdown, scripting, shortcuts, tables, terminalwidget, widgets
I’ve been sitting on this one while I got TerminalWidget launched. FileRouter is out — Mac App Store and direct via Paddle (and coming soon to Setapp, give it a couple days) — and I want to tell you what it is before I bury you in feature lists.
automation, editor, filerouter, finder, macos, markdown, productivity
Graffiti Moe has been a moderate success — enough people spraying the wall that it felt worth pushing further. So I did. I added a few features that make composing more fun and keeping the wall cleaner a lot less work.
graffiti, terminal
I like little terminal messages the way people used to like — something short that shows up when you open a shell and reminds you the machine isn’t entirely boring. I wanted a place for custom quotes, and then I wondered “what if other people could write them?”. So I built graffiti.moe: a tiny public wall you spray from the browser, and read from the terminal.
graffiti, scripting, terminal
I’ve always wanted a personal dashboard that actually stays out of the way. Not another browser tab. Not a full-screen monitoring app. Just the numbers and status I care about — sales, transfer speeds, uptime, whether that long-running script is still chewing — available the moment I look.
automation, backup, desktop, ios, macos, productivity, scripting, shortcuts, status, terminal, terminalwidget, widgets
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appreview, bookmarks, macos, recording
I finally got the Marked 3 Obsidian plugin into the official community directory. It can now be installed from within Obsidian with no manual-install rigamarole.
Obsidian, markdown, marked, obsidian, plugins
I’ve been chipping away at my PopClip extensions again, and this round is a bigger deal than usual. Not because of any one flashy feature, but because the packaging and interaction model finally caught up with how I actually want these things to work.
PopClip, TypeScript, extensions, macOS, popclip, ruby, scripting
If you’ve ever pressed Spacebar in Finder and gotten the wrong Quick Look preview — plain text instead of Markdown, someone else’s renderer, or a blank stare from macOS — you already know the pain. PluginKit registrations are fiddly, conflicting extensions are common, and the fix usually involves a scavenger hunt through Terminal.
extensions, macos, markdown, marked, markedql, quick look, troubleshooting, utilities
Marked QL, my new Markdown Quick Look previewer, has met a warm reception, and I wanted to update everyone on a couple of things.
apex, markdown, marked, markedql
I gave a presentation at Macstock X that I thought people might be interested in. It was about Markdown publishing, and ostensibly about Marked, although I didn’t get to as much about Marked as I had intended. It still went pretty well.
macstock, markdown, ssh
