Google Chrome considered harmful
I rarely use Chrome, but when I do I think that “Hold ⌘Q to Quit” is dangerous and stupid. If you hold it too long, you end up quitting whatever application was next in the stack. Why did anyone make this a thing?
Apple Mail junk mail notifications
I don’t know why this happens, but I use Apple Mail on my phone and computer and for some reason my phone likes to show me notifications for emails that are sent to junk. Does this happen to anyone else?
How to fix "waiting for other installations to complete"
I was trying to install an app (MS Teams) but was seeing a strange message from the installer: waiting for other installations to complete I found something on stackoverflow.com on how to fix it and it worked like a charm: sudo killall -1 installd Note: I did not run the command to remove any locked …
TIL: Xcode has the ability to split editors vertically
I have used VSCode for much of my career (for historical .NETy reasons) and really like its ability to split editor panes. Particularly the ability to split horizontally and vertically. I was bummed when moving to Xcode and found I wasn’t able to do this…Until now! How to do split …
MarsEdit Download Preview Template Feature
I use an app called MarsEdit to author my blog posts. I really like it and I recommend anyone using a Mac to check it out. Great piece of indie developed software that just works. Something cool that it enables is the ability to preview your post in the style of your blog. The template that comes …