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(Update: I figured out the issue with the rendering error mentioned below: extra “:” in the post title.)

I have a problem. I’m constantly trying to find one new Markdown app after the other. Now I’ve got a new one I’m trying.

LightPaper isn’t without its quirks (trying to figure out why it won’t show my Jekyll header as a table for this post when it does for all the rest, for example), but so far, it’s kind of checking off the most important points for me.

• Syntax highlighting for GFM.
• Autocomplete of list bullets and other Markdown elements.
• Markdown preview (though seriously, what is up with not rendering that Jekyll header??).
• Support for Jekyll headers (except when it doesn’t work. Maybe I need to publish this first?).
• Customizable styles for both editor and preview so I can switch to Courier New for typing.
• Word count.
• File browser in the left-most pane.
• Tabbed interface for open files.

The fact that it supports GFM and Jekyll also makes it a viable blog editor/manager for me, and for $10 I get to support an indie developer, which is nice.

I was thinking about this a while back, when tvOS was first announced. Here’s what the current slate of operating systems from Apple like:

OS X is the outlier. Which is why I think Apple’s slate is going to go this way soon, maybe as soon as WWDC 2016:

Okay, this is something I’ve known about for a while, but lately I’ve done this often enough to where it’s a super-irritant.

I wanted to send someone a link for 1Password for Teams recently. Couldn’t remember the subdomain so I Googled it.

What I wanted was the first result. Under the hyperlink for the result was the URL https://teams.1password.com. I right-clicked on the hyperlink and selected “Copy Link.”

Went to an email window and pasted it. This was the unholy mess I got:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjsjPW20aXKAhUDLmMKHdfODuAQFggdMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.1password.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNE4sORg0eacmWu8aS4PDEO2vnMOFw

Okay, look. I know that Google redirects your clicks through their analytics servers. I get it. But damnit, it’s terrible design. I do NOT want to see the entire Google search redirect URL when https://teams.1password.com is what I’m looking for.

Damnit Google.

Mac Sysadmins know this site really well. We go to it to get the blessedly simple .pkg to push out new versions of Flash Player, because the default installer from Adobe’s site is a crappy .app or some other custom installer that simply goes “What’s Enterprise?”

Which is why I was so pissed to see this:

I went through the process of applying for a license to distribute Flash, but it was pretty apparent that Adobe hasn’t even considered that IT Sysadmins would want to have access to the .pkg because the survey questions are all geared towards app developers.

Adobe, freaking kill Flash already. It’s an absolute pain the rear end.

Github Pages + Jekyll + Markdown + Typekit + TextExpander = Bliss.

I’m liking the combo of Jekyll and Github Pages a LOT. Just added Typekit to my site so I can use the excellent Lato font by Warsaw-based type designer Łukasz Dziedzic. I may have gone a bit nuts with the Typekit embed code and added it to not just the head.html in my includes directory, but also to all the templates and other pages. Sorry if this causes any issues.