I’ve been using Sphider for the search on Macdrifter and I am extremely happy with the move. For my purposes, I find the search results to be more relevant and the ranking more appropriate than either Google or DuckDuckGo.
I’ve been tinkering with Sphider Plus this week and I’m planning to switch to this fork. It has more powerful search logic, better indexing rules, word stemming and better overall performance. There’s a weird forced-donation model but I honestly don’t mind.
I probably would give Webscript a more descriptive name. I propose HolyShit.io.
It’s a lua web backend for $5 per month. Some cool stuff. I particularly like the Stripe and S3 integration.
Jeff Atwood posted an impassioned plea for a new Markdown standard. I read his post several times and I keep coming to the same conclusion. He wants MultiMarkdown.
I propose that Stack Exchange, GitHub, Meteor, Reddit, and any other company with lots of traffic and a strategic investment in Markdown, all work together to come up with an official Markdown specification, and standard test suites to validate Markdown implementations. We’ve all been working at cross purposes for too long, accidentally fragmenting Markdown while popularizing it.
I’m not much of a Chrome user and there’s no way I’m leaving TextDrop but I love this kind of exploration.
Nevertheless, I’ve always pined (probably an exaggeration) for the opportunity to indulge in something as meta as writing a text editor which I could use as a text editor for the text editor (which is, if you did not notice, that text editor).
Also, a 17 year old
Charity Navigator is a great resource I use before I make any donation to an organization I’m not familiar with. For example, choosing the charity that will receive part of my MacHeist donation. Unless they receive a four-star financial rating, I’m not giving them a single dime.
I am deep in the rabbit hole with Checkvist (see my previous review). This web app is far more than a simple todo list. It’s obvious to me that the development team are my kind of nerds.
Checkvist has native support for creating wiki style links between lists.
I couldn’t agree more with this:
The single most important tool I’ve found for improving Digital Literacy is Wolfram Alpha.
Wolfram Alpha is one of the most under utilized platforms on the internet. Apple was smart by integrating with them. How Google didn’t think of this, or at least copy it, is beyond me.
By way of @eddie_smith
Is there any doubt Dropbox is becoming a web infrastructure? Every week I find more services built on top of Dropbox. Let’s all hope they don’t hang out with the people from Twitter.
This is a very simple way to create payment forms for Stripe. Here’s the example I built. I’m planning on moving as much as I can off of PayPal and onto Stripe. It may not be as easy as PayPal, but it’s way less scummy.
There’s a new feature on Pinboard, called “Bundles” and it solves a real frustration with tags. Bundles provide a way to “OR” tags together and save them as a broader category.
For example, I have many different tags for programming languages. To see all of my tagged programming bookmarks together, I created a bundle. On the bundle screen, tags are combined by double clicking to move them to the box on the right.
