I find Patterns to be a much better app. It supports different flavors of regex (PCRE, Emacs, Ruby, etc…) and expression replacement. Patterns is currently $2.99.
If anybody is looking for the ultimate (best that I’ve seen, so far) regex helper, BBEdit’s new “Pattern Playground” is the best around. It uses open documents in the playground window to show you matches, what the replacement text will be and a button to move your perfectly crafted regex over to its Find window.
Thanks for the pointer. Will have a look at both programs.
(Currently I experiment in Sublime Text when I need to play with regular expressions)
BBEdit is overkill if you are just looking for regex playground, but it’s awesome. I’ve tried many text editors over the years and I keep coming back to BBEdit. Mostly because size doesn’t matter in BBEdit, I can throw huge text files at it and it always handles them.
All Obdev apps. Micro snitch and Launch bar too.
I just bought a 1T NVME SSD from WesternDigital for US$130, which is less than generics on Amazon.
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn750-nvme-ssd
Use a different email address, then you should be able to buy another license/subscription
9to5Mac’s Stacktrace Podcast 067: “The Year of the Pro”, with special guest Myke Hurley not only looks like a good episode, but it also includes an offer for 20% off Setapp (which, if I have done my math right, means the annual cost is about $86.30 instead of $107.88).
I didn’t see a big Black Friday discount for Setapp this year, so I think this might be the best opportunity to get on Setapp if you’re interested. There’s also a 7-day trial.
If you liked Human Resource Machine (I LOVED it—not a programmer here but it’s mostly just logic puzzles & it’s a great intro t programming too), then you may want to check out the “sequel” to the game by the same company, 7 Billion Humans.
Some good movie deals in iTunes (typing from memory now as I’m outside at the moment):
Received an email from Dynalist:
To celebrate, Dynalist Pro is now 50% off with the code XMAS19. The code is valid until 11:59 PM EST on January 4, 2020 (2020-01-05 04:59 UTC) .
Better deal than the normal freight.
Katie
Hey all, I did it again—looked through over 2,500 apps & deals for Christmas, Hanukkah, & New Year’s and I curated a list of just the best deals for you to peruse. Enjoy!
$10 off ChronoSync: ChronoSync is on sale for US$39.99. ChronoSync + ChronoAgent Bundle is on sale for US$49.99.
Ecobee thermostats are on sale ($50 off). Check with your local energy provider first, as you might get a better deal through them.
I’ve been using LittleSnitch for many years. However, Apple broke it in Big Sur. Does anyone know if this is a temporary issue? The OS changed making Little Snitch unusable
Apple made changes which seemingly allows their own software to bypass firewalls and vpns.
Little snitch 5 is working fine for other software.
Latest blog post seems to suggest there might be a ‘fix’ coming for the apple software issue.
It’s not 2019, closing this thread. If you want to talk about Little Snitch I’d recommend a new thread 
