Episode description

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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