Nick Kaczmarek

Xcode GPG not found issue

If you use GPG and Xcode you may have run into this error. From what I can tell if doesn’t really matter and you can still commit just fine (in the terminal if you want to use GPG), but it was annoying me. So I went spelunking and found this post on GitHub. In the post the author shares a git …

Jamiroquai/Bee Gees Mashup

I am a big fan of Jamiroquai and the Bee Gees and this mashup is just amazing. Looks like I’m a fan of Pomplamoose now. 🎵 Jamiroquai Bee Gees Mashup - Pomplamoose on YouTube Great album cover too.

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 …

I often use Siri to add things to a shopping list. And for some godforsaken reason it believes that “green salsa” is two items. What the hell? It also thinks “oatmilk” is two items.