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Month: March 2020

  • # articleMar 31, 2020· 5 min

    So, uh, I think Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH?

    <p>I was completely at my wit's end and feeling like I had lost my mind until about a half hour ago. And I don't know what difference connecting via a hostname versus an IP address would make when specifically using a non-standard port above a certain threshold. I'm not even going to go into it. I don't want to end up on Hacker News again bitching about Catalina. I just hope I've stuffed this post with enough keywords so that anyone else searching on Google might come across the answer.</p>

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  • # articleMar 25, 2020· 3 min

    A Quick Shell Script to Keep a LAN File Server Mounted All the Time

    <p>Now that we're all stuck at home practicing social distancing, my children's mood depends on their favorite TV shows and movies always being available during their iPad free time. And my sanity depends on not hearing the awful clicking noise of the external drive our video library is stored on while I'm working at my desk. Moving it to a networked file server running off a Raspberry Pi was simple enough and solved the problem. But after trying a few 3rd party apps to keep the network share always mounted, here's the simple shell script I wrote instead.</p>

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  • # articleMar 25, 2020· 5 min

    Spotish for macOS

    I know I keep referring to this tweet of mine from last year… One day I will get around to either releasing or open sourcing the dozen or so bespoke, one-off Mac apps I've built just for myself. Today is not that…

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  • # articleMar 20, 2020· 11 min

    Three Things Today

    <p>Every task management app has a feature that will let you postpone, delay, or snooze a task. You can tell them to push a todo item out by a day or a week, etc. But I like to think Three Things is smarter than that. It's designed to be flexible and forgiving – pragmatic and realistic. When you defer a task, it won't accidentally reschedule it for a day that's already overflowing with commitments. It literally will not allow you to schedule more than three tasks per day.</p> <p>It fits my brain. Maybe it'll fit yours, too.</p>

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  • # articleMar 16, 2020· 5 min

    The Stack View is a Liar

    <p>…Firing up Xcode's wonderful view debugger, however, completely blew my mind and shattered any remaining self-confidence I had as an app developer. And then nearly an hour later I'm really questioning everything I thought I knew about ones and zeroes until a google search leads me to this page. And, sure enough, my bug is spelled out right there.</p>

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