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
I’ve been working on something small but useful, and it’s out now: Marked QL, a Quick Look extension that renders Markdown previews right in Finder. Select a file, hit Spacebar, and you get a real preview — not plain text, not a sad monospace dump, but actual formatted output with math, diagrams, syntax highlighting, the works.
apex, finder, macos, markdown, marked, markedql, qlmanage, quicklook, terminal
If you use NA, you’re going to love this: the Rust rewrite is noticeably faster than the original Ruby gem — especially in prompt hooks, where a quick into a project shouldn’t mean waiting on a script before you get your shell back. Same commands, same TaskPaper files, less lag.
cli, na, plugins, productivity, prompt, ruby, rust, scripting, shell, taskpaper, tools
Apex now has a option aimed at Pandoc/Quarto-style markdown for HTML output. This is not a Quarto replacement — you are not getting cell execution, project rendering, or PDF output from Apex alone. What you do get is a sensible HTML path for -style documents without running the full Quarto toolchain.
apex, html, markdown
