Removing OS X “Open With” Duplicates

Most of the time Finder will show you multiple entries for each application when right clicking a file and choosing Open With. Getting rid of Open With duplicates gives us an alias to remove those duplicates. Below is not only the alias, but a one-line command to add the alias to your ~/.bash_profile. Just copy …

OAuth & Changing Passwords

Valid point by Brent Simmons: When Twitter was recently hacked, I was among those who got an email saying I was affected. So I changed my password. But here’s what I’ve noticed: changing my password does not cause any of the Twitter clients on my iPhone to ask me again for authentication. They just keep …

Google Maps v3 Move Polygon

UPDATE 2018.03.07: The issue requesting to have this in the core of Google Maps got marked as fixed … unfortunately I cannot find this change back in the documentation, so I’m not too sure if it’s actually fixed or not. Will keep tracking it. Since Google Maps v3.11 (*) it’s possible to move around a …

Mercator Puzzle Redux

The aforementioned Mercator Puzzle is quite nice, but it’s static: you always get presented the same 15 countries at the same 15 starting positions. To counter that, I decided to make the thing dynamic: you get to place 15 countries chosen from a set of 178 in total. If you don’t know the anwser, just …