Web Excursions for May 6th, 2026

Web excursions brought to you in partnership with CleanShot X, the absolute, hands-down best app for Mac screenshots. Get one of my all-time favorite apps here.

I’ve been hard at work on TerminalWidget and trying to get Marked through App Review, so I’ve been a bit underwater with blogging. But here’s what I’ve found this week.

TheLustriVA/fontlet A TUI for figlet written in Go. Super handy if you like figlet but want to see a preview of all available fonts with your exact text. ScreenKite I can’t believe this is free.

The screen recorder for people who ship. Fast & native macOS, no subscription. Auto-zoom, built-in editor, Metal-accelerated export. Free.

Compacto

Compress, merge, split, protect and convert PDFs on your Mac — entirely offline. Compacto is free to use with no accounts, no uploads, no subscriptions. Buy Pro tools once, own them forever.

rhsev/ticker A fun one from Ralf Hülsmann: a retro LED dot-matrix ticker for the macOS menu bar, controlled from the command line. SitApp SitApp uses on-device AI to monitor your posture and nudge you when you slouch. My readers can get a 30% discount on a Pro subscription with code BRETTTERPSTRA.

I do all of my screenshots and screen recordings with CleanShot X. I love it to pieces. You should get it.

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