Welcome to The Lab.

I’ve been using a combination of Pandoc and other tools to generate the man page for Apex from Markdown. As Apex nears a 1.0 release, I figured it should be able to generate man pages on its own. apex, documentation, formatting, markdown, terminal

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I love playing the New York Times game Connections. Some days it’s easy, occasionally it stumps me. I don’t cheat at it — I’ll take a loss when I have to. ruby, scripting

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Here’s part two of my Apex posts for the day: Multiple image formats from a single image syntax. apex, browser, formatting, markdown, video, webdesign

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This is the first of two Apex posts today. In my opinion, the two things I’ve been working on deserve their own headlines. So here’s part one: terminal rendering. apex, cli, customization, filters, formatting, markdown, mdless, scripting, terminal, themes

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NiftyMenu is the little tool I use to dump a macOS app’s menu bar into an HTML page so I can search it, click through to items, and add callouts for screencasts and product documentation. The latest round of updates brings the UI in line with macOS Tahoe and cleans up a bunch of behavior and script logic. desktop, documentation, html, macos, menus, niftymenu, screenshot, scripting, webdesign, writing

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In my quest to make Apex as complete as possible before I integrate it into Marked, I’ve added Pandoc-compatible filters, which can be written in Lua for native execution, or in any language using a Pandoc JSON pipeline. apex, filters, lua, markdown, pandoc, ruby

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I’ve been hard at work on a bunch of projects at once, so this is partly just a personal check-in on how things are going. Thanks for being my therapist of sorts. So here’s what’s up with current projects, including Marked 3, Howzit, Apex, and more. Wordpress, apex, bt-downloads, bt-keyboard-shortcuts, developer, features, howzit, markdown, marked, plugins, sleep

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Here’s a new Karabiner-Elements trick that I’ve been using to add home row app switching to my workflow. Tools like LeaderKey are great, but sometimes you just want the App Switcher, and sometimes you just want to be lazy with your fingers. karabiner, keyboard

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Just for fun, I’ve been porting some of my Jekyll plugins to WordPress, and two of them have turned into what I think are really useful plugins. bt-downloads, bt-keyboard-shortcuts, customization, editor, keyboard, plugins, shortcuts, wordpress

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If you use Apex for more than one project, you’ve probably hit the point where a single global setup doesn’t quite cut it. Maybe your book project wants a different plugin set than your docs site, or one repo has stricter defaults than everything else on your machine. apex, markdown, plugins

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