I spoke at WordCamp US 2023, and wanted to grab a copy of the video of my talk. I always try to keep my own copies of these because I've seen some conferences eventually take these offline in the past. …
I wanted to get wildcard DNS running on my Mac laptop, for development purposes. I wanted http://anything.mysite.lan/
to point to my localhost IP address. …
I found an MP3 recording of an old talk I gave and decided to use the slides from that talk to create a video using iMovie. …
Today I wanted to figure out where the vercel
CLI tool on my Mac kept its authentication tokens. …
I wanted to convert some .webp
images to .png
on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT: …
I spotted an intriguing note in the release notes for osxphotos 0.51.7: …
For a friend's wedding I needed to run a Google Photos slideshow on some large televisions. …
Atuin (via Rhet Turnbull) "replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database". Obviously I had to try this out! …
I decided to try out atuin, a shell extension that writes your history to a SQLite database. …
I had an 11GB movie in Apple Photos (sync'd from my iPhone) and I wanted to upload it to YouTube (actually via AirDrop to another laptop first). …
I usually use Homebrew on macOS, but I decided to try using the official Python installer based on this Twitter conversation. …
lsof
stands for "list open files". Here are some very basic usage notes for the version that ships with macOS. …
TLDR: Use platform: linux/amd64
in docker-compose.yml
and your containers will probably work! …
I usually use Squoosh.app to reduce the size of my PNGs, but in this case I had a folder with nearly 50 images in it so I wanted to do it using the command-line. …
This runs using Spotlight so it's really fast: …
Every time I opened a terminal on my new Mac running Catalina with zsh I got the following annoying error: …
I always forget how to set this up. It's hidden in Preferences -> Profiles -> Basic -> Shell: …
I really like Skitch for taking screeshots, mainly because I like to snap a quick shot and then drag the icon onto a Google Doc or similar without saving the file anywhere. …
macOS Catalina uses zsh
rather than bash
as the default shell (apparently because Apple don't like GPL 3). …