Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Tower, the absolute best Git GUI for macOS.
A native macOS command center for git repositories and worktrees.
A great way to manage multiple worktrees and maintain agent context between them. Works great with Tower as an external tool using the built-in command options.
Turn scattered PDFs into a tidy, searchable library — sorted by topic, searchable by meaning, able to answer questions with citations. All on your Mac. $29.99 one-time; free iPhone & iPad companion.
Peeku is a private Mac workspace companion that locks your screen when you walk away, nudges you to walk and rest your eyes, and keeps camera processing local.
The auto-lock feature works on both the direct version and recently the MAS version.
The Chrome extension that clips any webpage to clean Markdown — YouTube, Reddit, X, docs. Built for Obsidian, Claude, and AI knowledge bases.
And yes, there’s a Firefox/Zen extension.
Mainspring reveals the settings macOS hides — as 90+ one-click, fully reversible power-ups, recipes, and scenes. A precision tool for tuning your Mac. $29 once, 1-day free trial.
A nice update to tools like Onyx, with easy reversion of changes.
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Brett is a writer and developer living in Minnesota, USA. You can follow him as ttscoff on GitHub, Mastodon, and elsewhere.
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