A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
m-cli is a macOS command line tool that lets you interact with utilities and applications entirely in Terminal. Gives you a bunch of shorthand CLI commands that you can use, such as m finder showdesktop YES, m battery status, m dns flush, etc. These replace a bunch of custom aliases you might have set up …
Some parts of the UI in macOS are powered by the web. Jim Nielsen shares how you can inspect these using Safari’s Web Inspector Inspecting Web Views in macOS →
sudo using Touch ID
Turns out it’s possible to authenticate with sudo using Touch ID, as per this (old) tweet by Cabel: Pro MacBook Pro Tip: have a Touch Bar with Touch ID? If you edit /etc/pam.d/sudo and add the following line to the top… auth sufficient pam_tid.so …you can now use your fingerprint to sudo! — Cabel (@cabel) …
vi over SSH
One of the things that kept on bothering me when SSH’ing is that the keys of the numpad would not work in vi: when pressing any key on the numpad, another key would be sent somehow. Should’ve Google’d this a lot earlier because the fix is very simple: in the preferences of Terminal, go to …
MirrorDisplays a simple application that toggles between mirrored and extended desktop modes. It’s the easiest way to turn on, or turn off display mirroring. Also comes with a (separately installable) CLI tool which makes this pretty interesting The command line tool is good for giving shell-scripts the power to control display mirroring and opens up …
macintosh.js – A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron.
This is Mac OS 8, running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. Yes, it’s the full thing. I’m sorry. macintosh.js →
KeyCastr is an open-source keystroke visualizer. Handy to use while screencasting/livestreaming/teaching. Installation per Homewbrew Cask: brew cask install keycastr KeyCastr →
It’s been over 10 years that I’ve been using macOS (then OS X) and every now and then I notice that the audio balance of my Bluetooth headset is off for no apparent reason. Hmm, why is the balance for my headphone suddenly off? Back in 2014 I was lucky enough to see this tweet …
Continue reading “Automatically Fix Bluetooth Audio Balance Drift in macOS with “Balance Lock””
pipcorn
With pipcorn you can spawn a picture-in-picture YouTube player on your Mac without installing anything! Install it globally using npm, or run it directly using npx: npx pipcorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Basically it’s a wrapper around ytdl (to get the MP4 URL) and open-pip-cli (to open a PIP player). Love the name, too. pipcorn Source (GitHub) →
Little macOS menubar app by Stefan Judis to see, monitor and control Netlify builds Netlify Menubar →