TerminalWidget is built to turn your desktop and mobile widgets into versatile, programmable displays for whatever data you care about. Over the last few updates, I’ve added some fun new visual capabilities like multi-series charts, pie charts, and centered tables. But even the slickest widget is only as good as the script feeding it, and when something goes wrong with a background task or an image fetch, tracking down why a widget didn’t update can feel like hunting ghosts.
cli, diagnostics, gallery, ios, logging, macos, recipe, scripting, server, shortcuts, sync, tables, terminalwidget, updates, widgets
I recently updated my PopClip extensions collection to use a lot more TypeScript and a lot less Ruby and Python, making extensions faster, easier to sign, and far less reliant on the user having certain processors installed. I also switched the majority of ones that relied on modifier keys to use the new submenu feature. And now there’s an easier way to share them.
extensions, popclip, productivity, ssh, updates
Recently, Dr. Drang submitted a “planets” recipe for TerminalWidget that shows the locations of planets in the night sky. It was a great use of a medium widget format, and did the trick nicely. But some recent updates to TerminalWidget offered some new display possibilities.
recipe, terminalwidget, widgets
FileRouter is on Product Hunt today! I’d really appreciate you checking it out and offering your support. I always end up in the top 10 with these launches, but I’ve never quite made it into the top 5. Help me get there!
filerouter, macos
Apex just grew a native Rich Text Format writer. That means Markdown can become something macOS apps already understand: Pages documents, files, and — with a little pasteboard care — rich text you can drop straight into Mail.
apex, html, macos, markdown, scripting, shorcuts
People are digging TerminalWidget, which I’m both surprised and delighted by. I really wasn’t sure people would “get” it when I first started working on it (all the way up to the day I launched it). The most common review, though, is some form of “this looks awesome but I don’t know what to do with it.”
scripting, terminal, terminalwidget, widgets
Graffiti Moe started as a terminal thing on purpose. a random spray, slap one up with a one-liner, feel like you’re tagging a wall that only nerds walk past. Fun. Also… a little exclusive.
graffiti, macos, menubar, opensource, terminal
Widgets that just sit there and look pretty are fine. Widgets you can tap into are better. TerminalWidget now leans into that with markdown links in body text and table cells, plus a proper launcher button footer.
launcher, linking, markdown, scripting, shortcuts, tables, terminalwidget, widgets
I’ve been sitting on this one while I got TerminalWidget launched. FileRouter is out — Mac App Store and direct via Paddle (and coming soon to Setapp, give it a couple days) — and I want to tell you what it is before I bury you in feature lists.
automation, editor, filerouter, finder, macos, markdown, productivity
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
