I love to tell you about cool, new apps and then teach you how to use them. But there’s a classic macOS app that never gets any coverage — TextEdit. You may think you need a big-girl word processor like Word, Pages, LibreOffice, or even Google Docs. But after I go through all of the […]
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Exploring Markdown Export from Notes
I’m a big fan of Markdown, the markup language invented by John Gruber. If you’re not familiar with it, the idea of Markdown is that you can write in plain text, but still produce a nicely formatted document. Instead of using clumsy menu pics to format your text, you use this little markup language. It’s […]
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Why Do People Like Apple Notes?
In the early days, Apple Notes were an okay way to jot down a thought, but Apple has put a lot of work into making them much more useful. Nowadays, I hear people on tech podcasts and in my nerd circles talking about how much they use and like Apple Notes. But I don’t get […]
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How to Add Elapsed Time in Excel
For literally decades I’ve been trying to figure out a way to add elapsed time in Excel, and this week, with the help of my friend Mike, we figured out how to do it. I feel like I have made fire. The problem with Excel (and all spreadsheet applications) is that by default, they treat […]
Continue readingCCATP #474 Bart Busschots PBS 29 – JS Prototype Revision | Glyph Icons
I don’t want to jinx anything here, but I feel like I’m finally starting to “get” this JavaScript programming thing. In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart starts by talking about how we solved the challenges from last week, getting rid of “bad smells” by learning how to reuse our code. Then Bart teaches […]
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