In the years since I first started developing FastScripts, all manner of keyboard-shortcut type solutions have popped up, including the enormously ambitious Quicksilver, and the refined, trigger-action-oriented Butler. But some of us still appreciate FastScripts for its simplicity. Put scripts in the standard Apple-location, cmd-select them from the FastScripts menu, and assign a keystroke. FastScripts […]

From time to time people ask for a feature in MarsEdit that would allow scheduling of posts for future publication. While I can appreciate the desire for such functionality, the drawbacks to implementing it on the client-side are numerous. To schedule a future post, MarsEdit or a custom tool from MarsEdit needs to run in […]

Raymond Chen today reminds us that the readbility of code is important. But I’m not sure I agree with his headline/premise: “Code is read much more often than it is written.” In my opinion it’s more important for code to be skimmable than readable. This may be a lot of nitpicking over what is just […]

Another Iron Coder weekend is wrapped up officially, as this round’s judge Jon Wight announced on the Iron Coder Blog. Ben Gottlieb won with his WikiPath screensaver. Congratulations, Ben! My entry received an honorable mention as the “Best Non-Screensaver.” I thought everybody would do a screensaver, and I should try to be a little different. […]