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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