Nick Kaczmarek

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.

Here’s another image Duolingo sent me for completing a 365 day streak.

365 days is the longest and most consistently I’ve ever practiced Spanish. I’ve missed about a month or so and have used many streak freezes but I’m proud either way.