TerminalWidget: terminal feedback on the Desktop - BrettTerpstra.com I’ve been working on a new project called TerminalWidget, and I’m excited to tell you about it. It’s built for people who live on the command line and want useful output visible at a glance instead…

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A couple of Apex fixes - BrettTerpstra.com Apex just got a couple of useful fixes, and they came straight out of real-world usage.

Lately on the blog: A couple of Apex fixes

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A few people I only know online have disappeared over the last few months, and I get worried, too. One of them finally messaged me back after a full month of trying to find them. I'm worried the others may have something serious going on. Orr died…

I just don't get on bluesky all that often, and my MBP was out of commission for a full week, so now I'm just catching up on projects before I start blogging again :). I'm active on Mastodon in the meantime.

RFK Jr and podcast guest suggest food is affordable in the US – despite rising costs Health secretary and chef Robert Irvine claim Americans could eat healthier and more cheaply if they shopped better

HHS Secretary: Good food is expensive, just eat shittier food. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

MacVoices #26113: The Road to Macstock with Brett Terpstra — MacVoices Brett Terpstra previews his Macstock Conference and Expo session focused on Markdown, explaining how it simplifies writing, publishing, and archiving conten ...

MacVoices #26113: The Road to @macstockexpo.bsky.social with @ttscoff.bsky.social

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Non-exvangelicals just don’t understand. I’m never as at ease as I am with people who are 15-30 years behind in their emotional development due to cults. Especially queer exvangelicals. Those are special to me.

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

It’s day 121 of the ICE occupation of MN.

Rent is due today - and thousands of our neighbors still face eviction without mutual aid.

StandWithMinnesota.org to contribute or to adopt a rent.

I’m not saying every non-capital-holder that argues for Capitalism is brainwashed by their own system, but… no I am.

Help Families Pay The Rent — Stand With Minnesota Donate to help immigrant families in Minnesota pay rent during ICE occupation. Emergency housing support rooted in dignity and community care.

All right, we're still at it, because ICE is still fucking with Minnesota. So if you donate to the fund to help families pay their rent, you'll get entered into a drawing to have me review your resume. I'll pick three* people.

www.standwithminnesota.com/rent

Web Excursions for March 31st, 2026 - BrettTerpstra.com An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

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Land Day flash sale at PM Press, 40% off books, 20% off merch: pmpress.org/index.php?l=... (Use coupon `LANDDAY`)

Also a Trans Visibility sale with coupon `VISIBILITY`: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Big fan of PM Press “Fuck your spaceships, we sell books" giving voice to some great authors.

My ultimate keyboard-driven Mac utility list - BrettTerpstra.com The keyboard is the most powerful tool we have when using our Macs, which is why I’ve curated what might seem like an overwhelming combination of keyboard utilities that I use daily.

Lately on the blog: My ultimate keyboard-driven Mac utility list

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Breaking the ICE: Lessons from the Resistance in Minnesota Announcing a countrywide speaking tour featuring anarchists from the Twin Cities who have participated in resisting the ICE occupation.

Crimethinc tour! crimethinc.com/2026/03/23/b...

Apex sports most Pandoc features, but Pandoc isn’t a flavor of markdown on its own.

Apex 0.1.100 - image rendering in terminal - BrettTerpstra.com Apex can render Markdown to the terminal ( or ) with ANSI colors and themes. As of 0.1.100, it can also draw images inline when stdout is a real TTY: your images show up as actual graphics instead of…

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Better Keyboard Shortcut Formatting for Writers - BrettTerpstra.com If you write documentation, tutorials, or notes that include keyboard shortcuts, you know how annoying consistency can be. Sometimes you want plain text like , sometimes you want nice symbolic output…

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Doing updates - BrettTerpstra.com Big update for : a lot of quality-of-life work since my last post, plus some genuinely useful time-reporting features.

Lately on the blog: Doing updates

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A Faster Drag-and-Drop Workflow with Dropzone 5 [Sponsor] - BrettTerpstra.com Thanks to Aptonic and Dropzone for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been a Dropzone fan for as long as I can remember, and yes, I use it every day. It’s a wonderfully…

Lately on the blog: A Faster Drag-and-Drop Workflow with Dropzone 5 [Sponsor]

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“There is no time to beg the complicit international governments…We will not waste our breath asking nicely. Instead, we will take necessary action to quash their means to kill.” - Earthquake Faction

Man I wish I could make the journey. Just checked out your latest on Apple Music, great stuff… and you’re still the most metal dude I ever met at an Apple event.

Kash Patel has confirmed that the FBI is buying data to track Americans' movement and location history without obtaining a warrant.

ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.

Gee, what could they possibly want with that?

Is ICE building a DNA database of political protesters? : NPR www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

The Unite Pro giveaway winners! - BrettTerpstra.com The Unite Pro giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce!

Lately on the blog: The Unite Pro giveaway winners!

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bt-linkding available on the Chrome and Firefox extension stores - BrettTerpstra.com https://brettterpstra.com/2026/03/13/bt-linkding-available-on-the-chrome-and-firefox-extension-stores/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon

Lately on the blog: bt-linkding available on the Chrome and Firefox extension stores

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Web Excursions for March 11th, 2026 - BrettTerpstra.com An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

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Unite Pro giveaway! - BrettTerpstra.com I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 4 licenses ($39.99 value each) for Unite Pro. Unite has long been my favorite way to create Single Site Browsers (SSBs), sandboxing things like Facebook…

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