All across macOS and iOS, when you search for something, the ordering of results in most cases is:
I’ll provide several examples. First up, Maps. Let’s …
In May of 1993, I first connected to a online virtual community called LambdaMOO. It’s difficult to describe the place in one sentence, but here’s one attempt:
A MOO is a text-based online virtual reality system to which multiple users (players) are connected at the same time
MOO—Wikipedia
LambdaMOO …
If you use the defaults command to set preferences, it’s easy to forget that you ever did. Some implications of this:
One of the (few) nice things about a shell script is that if you share it with someone, they can look at the source code and see how it works or modify it for their own purposes.
It’s not as quick and dirty as a bash script, for example, but …
This comes from a long career of software testing where I went through more than a dozen release cycles, noting which testing methods work best.
We’re all familar with the following troubleshooting steps when encountering a problem on our computers or phones:
Rather than write a script for something you may only need once, there’s an easy way to repeat a series of command-line commands. This works in bash and may in other shells:
while [ 1 ]; do <some command>; <some other command>; sleep <some delay in seconds>; done;
So, for …
It seems like whenever I want to write an if-then or case statement in bash, I spent an hour searching the web and end up finding 12 different suggested ways of doing it. I try them all and maybe one of them works if I’m lucky.
I happened to …
Shell aliases are woefully underused. Painfully, I frequently see people do the following:
Aliases are super easy. Just open your ~/.bashrc file (or …
If you’ve ever had a bizarre problem in Xcode and you’ve given up hope, this post is for you. Some frustrating things you might see:
It’s fairly straightforward to leverage launchd to run a script either at specified intervals or at specific times of the day. I find that most people only want to do fairly simple things, so I’ve kept this simple.
The way launchd works is that you create a plist, then run …