Apex 1.1.0 adds support for Pandoc-style grid tables — those ASCII-art tables built with , , , and instead of the usual pipe-table separators. If you have ever copied a grid table out of a Pandoc doc or academic paper and wished your Markdown processor would just deal with it, this one is for you.
apex, html, markdown, pandoc, tables
Thanks to Anecnote for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! It’s a really cool app for capturing and organizing memories, complete with context. I’ll let the developer explain.
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Thanks to everyone for bearing with me while I get launch bugs worked out of Marked. As a thank you to my readers, beta testers, and supporters, I wanted to offer a few free lifetime licenses for Marked 3.
giveaway, macos, marked, ssh
Despite my frequent warnings, a lot of nvALT (and Notational Velocity) users keep their notes in a database instead of individual files. And people are finding themselves unable to launch nvALT, meaning that database with all their notes is inaccessible. So I made a tool to rescue it.
export, formatting, macos, markdown, notes, nvalt, ssh, support, tools
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I had switched away from Bartender a while ago, mostly due to quirks on macOS 26, and partly due to confusion over its acquisition. But I’m back, and it’s better than ever.
macos, menus, review, utility, widgets
The Contrib API I published last week for generating GitHub contribution heatmaps as a PNG you can drop into a TerminalWidget, blog post, or slide deck, now goes further than “pick a username and theme.”
API, GitHub, contrib, terminalwidget, widgets
I just shipped a small API that generates static images of your GitHub contribution graph, and you can try it here . My goal was graphs in TerminalWidget, but I figured it would be useful in more places than that.
api, contrib, github, terminalwidget
Callouts just got a lot more flexible in the latest release of Apex. I now support Quarto, Pandoc, Obsidian/Bear, and Python Markdown flavors of callouts.
apex, markdown
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Thanks to Timelined for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve started using this app to track my medical history, making it easy to reference my appointments, diagnoses, symptom onsets, and more. It’s going to be really handy when I go to a specialist and need to give them my history.
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