I’m no screenwriter, but this looks like a nice update to Slugline. Writing in plain text is awesome and liberating, but only if it does what you need in the end. Slugline continues to advance and add convenience features. This update adds Continued Dialog markers.
There’s also a free demo you can download and try now.
Here’s the feature page and demo page if you’re still curious.
Funny but un-surprising list of good beers for all new-parent-occasions:
There is no gold sticker for another successful notch in the calendar. But there is an imperial IPA, such as Lagunitas’ piney and tropical Hop Stoopid.
Do you use nvALT or Marked.app for writing? How about Markdown tools or automatic logging for Day One? I’m betting that if you read this site that there is something that you use daily that Brett Terpstra made or contributed to.1
Brett is now an indie developer and writer. He’s accepting donations to support his work. I don’t look at it so much as a donation but rather as a self serving act that will help make more awesome available sooner rather than later.
From the Boston Globe:
“It’s the kind of ale monks like to drink,” said Keeley, noting wryly that people “love the idea of monks brewing beer.”
That’s because they have a good track record. Yup. This is good news for my state.
My friend Ken, over at Drink IPA cleverly adapted Sifttter to log the beers he drinks each week. Ken probably drinks better beer than any of us and I like this idea. I won’t be putting them into Day One but logging to a text file sounds smart.
If you’re an Untappd fiend like some of my friends, this might be a good solution to own your own data in a format you like better than Untappd.
I link to Derek Lowe for this one because the first comment nails it (and I think Derek gets it too). I’ll quote the same bit Derek does because it summarizes my entire experience:
Compared with standard offices, employees experienced more uncontrolled interactions, higher levels of stress, and lower levels of concentration and motivation. . .
When interviewing “younger” workers, the original author notes:
But they believed that the trade-offs were ultimately worth it, because the open space resulted in a sense of camaraderie; they valued the time spent socializing with coworkers, whom they often saw as friends.
This is a nice rundown of some natural language APIs.
The source is Mashape which looks like an API middleman. It’s an interesting idea and their index looks very good and it’s searchable.
Don’t miss the link at the bottom for PublicAPI.com, which I’ve seen before but always forget about.
Here’s a nice article about the considerations for keyboard shortcuts in designing a web application. These are actually pretty good things to think through for any kind of keyboard shortcut.
As an aside, I still don’t understand why people choose to write on Medium. In this case I think the author is one of the people behind Checkvist, which has great keyboard shortcuts, but I can’t tell.
Appear.in looks convenient. There is no login or account. You just create a room and email the link to up to 7 other participants. Now if only I had 7 people I wanted to see at the same time, I’d be all set.
Seems like a significant and overdue change:
First a bit of background. All Wikimedia sites have been using a home-grown search system based on Apache Lucene since 2005 or 2006. It was written primarily by volunteer Robert Stojnić and is called lucene-search-2. This is a fantastic search engine, which has powered the sites for years now, and has managed to scale very well for the past 8 years or so.
