TextDrop is a Markdown friendly web based text editor that looks at everything in your storage. It is fast, easy, and magical. MacDrifter did a thourough job of writing up the latest update. I’ve only been a paid subscriber for a few weeks but…

I’m in the curent edition of Read & Trust magazine, this time talking about craftsmanship and my father.

Below is a reprint of an essay on productivity I wrote for the the Read & Trust magazine last October. Productivity is a loaded word Superficially, productivity implies some super-human skill to keep busy where other mortals can not. It is the polar opposite…

“‘Consistency’ has become a synonym for consistent mediocrity of ‘powerpoints’: the slides covered with text and bullet points.” At some point we all need to stand up and just start refusing to submit “Powerpoints” to conference materials. Like Aleh, my slide deck is completely…

Andy Ihnatko turned me on to this years ago. Every New Years Day, every font in ComiCraft’s inventory is marked down to cost a penny per year (this year $20.13). Every year I plunk down my twenty bucks for another and now I’ve got…

Before jumping into 2013, I want to thank each and every one of you for reading MacSparky.com. It has been an amazing year for me as the podcast and blog both grew bigger than ever and the successful launch of the MacSparky Field Guides.…