October 11, 2016

Episode 293: The Frame for Our Relationship

1 hour 49 minutes

TOPIC: The Minimum Viable Waste of Time.

Some awesome odds and sods, a great new Markdown editor for OS X, and a main topic on dealing with those aggressive email follow-up people.

Dan's Concern™ regarding his annoying smoke detectors

Why things seem to get worse and more diverse

Evaluate the credulity of Amazon reviews with Fakespot

Scary edge cases for Samsung Note fires

Cary's great DNS switching trick

Merlin is loving Typora, a clever and powerful new desktop Markdown editor

Pandoc does many file conversion things

Homebrew makes Mac package management a doddle

Brett Terpstra's Markdown Service Tools are essential

TableFlip is a cool app for making and editing Markdown tables

Fountain and Slugline are awesome for Markdown-like screenplay writing

Also, hey. Editorial for iOS can totally handle Fountain files. Turns out!

Merlin and Dan are still really liking iOS 10

It's definitely worth the time to prune your iOS notifications

Main Topic: How should we deal with all those "just circling back" people?

iPhone spam call blocker Hiya seems to be working now

Links for this episode:

Typora — a minimal markdown reading & writing app
Typora will give you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other unnecessary distractions. Replace them with a real live preview feature to help you concentrate the content itself.

Typora Support - Typora Support

Release pandoc 1.17.2 · jgm/pandoc · GitHub

Scary Cary???? on Twitter: "#HotTip: Add different Locations for different DNS records in macOS: cc: @hotdogsladies #BackToWork https://t.co/VSyPgiLz8b"

TableFlip - Simple Table Editor for Mac
The Markdowntable editor.

Infomercials fanvid - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - YouTube

Jon Plummer on Twitter: "@hotdogsladies Do you have a smoove way to reply to the inveterate email follower-uppers? I lightly blew up at one today and I'm not proud."

Editorial for iOS

Fountain | A markup language for screenwriting.

Slugline. Simply Screenwriting.

Paul Williams Still Alive (2011) - IMDb

Termite.com <> WESTERN SUBTERRANEAN TERMITES

Smoke detector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Williams (songwriter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

5by5 | Hypercritical #18: Worse and More Diverse

Fakespot | Analyze and identify fake reviews

Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS

Markdown Service Tools - BrettTerpstra.com

Hiya: Caller ID, Call Blocker & Protection for a Better Phone Experience

The Rambling Taoists: Real Life Tao - No Fight, No Blame

Screenplay Markdown — Prolost

MultiMarkdown

Sherman's March (1986 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Beatles – I Am The Walrus Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

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