Affiliate links via the iTunes Search API
I started writing these scripts a couple of weeks ago, and they weren’t supposed to take very long to put together. But I had to learn some things along the way, and then I got caught up in the...
View ArticleThe Markdown book and a bit of history
The day before I left on vacation, I got an email from David Sparks with a link to the PDF of the Markdown book he and Eddie Smith wrote. The freebie was nice, but even nicer was that David remembered...
View ArticleMarkdown table scripts for BBEdit
The more you customize your editor, the harder it is to switch to another one. This is one of the reasons it took me so long to make the move away from TextMate; in six years of use, I’d accumulated a...
View ArticlePhotos and links in Markdown
I write my reports for work in Markdown and convert them into PDFs through a combination of MultiMarkdown, LaTeX, and some homemade scripts. I described the conversion process in a post last year....
View ArticleTidying Markdown reference links
Oscar Wilde—who would have been great on Twitter—said “I couldn’t help it. I can resist everything except temptation.” That’s my excuse for this post. Several days ago I got an email from a reader,...
View ArticleMarkdown reference links screencast
I made a short screencast of me using the Markdown reference link scripts I’ve shown in the last two posts. There’s no sound; the narration is typed on screen. A few notes: I show myself choosing the...
View ArticleMore Markdown reference links in BBEdit
My last post described a set of scripts I use to add new reference links to a Markdown document in BBEdit. This one will show the scripts I use to reference links that are already in the document....
View ArticleMarkdown reference links in BBEdit
Markdown has two link styles: inline and reference. Inline links look like this: This is [an inline link](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link). where the link text in brackets is...
View ArticleA little report formatting script
Late last year, in the last post of a rather drawn-out series on how my text editing habits have evolved over the years, I described my current workflow for writing reports for work. That post has the...
View ArticleMarkdown reference links from Safari tabs
There is absolutely nothing original in this post. The idea for grabbing all the open browser tabs and turning them into Markdown reference links is stolen directly from the Tabs to References command...
View ArticleThe best Markdown editor is any editor
I’ve long known and accepted that regular people view me as something of an oddball, but it’s still unnerving when I discover another aspect in which I’m out of step even with the nerds who should be...
View ArticleThat Markdown and web look
On the latest episode of The Talk Show, John Gruber talked about Brett Terpstra’s exhaustive review of iOS text editors. Just before a commercial break—near the 20 minute mark, for those of you scoring...
View ArticleOne more Text Tables bundle improvement
Last month, I presented an improvement to my old Text Tables bundle for TextMate. The bundle supplies a few commands for reformatting MultiMarkdown-style tables.1 This post adds one more improvement to...
View ArticleImproved Markdown table commands for TextMate
A few years ago, I made a small TextMate bundle with commands for manipulating MultiMarkdown-style tables1. One of the commands, Normalize Markdown Table, didn’t work too well if the table included...
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