macOS Working Environment (Sierra, El Capitan)
This list once started out as my personal check list for setting-up a fresh Mac (and it still serves that purpose). Due to its nature the list is continuously evolving. So don’t forget to check back from time to time. Continue reading Essential Applications for macOS
As you may have noticed I switched the comment sytem from WP to Disqus.
It’s not that I like Disqus so much, it’s just a preliminary step for the change from WordPress to a static site generator. Probably Jekyll, maybe Hugo. Not sure, yet.
I hope the transition will be finished in a couple of weeks. Still have to figure out many things.
You find a development preview of the new site at http://static.jekyll.dflect.net and at http://static.hugo.dflect.net
I’m tired of WordPress.
– Tom
Recently I discovered a very nice monospaced font: “Hack” by Source Foundry.
Hack is based on DejaVu Sans Mono, but with some nice modifications. Continue reading The “Hack” Font
I have a script where I exclude certain files from the Time Machine backup via xattr -w "com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem com.apple.backupd". This works fine. Continue reading ‘tmutil addexclusion’ WTH?!
This LaunchBar action is a utility for usage with TaskPaper. Continue reading TaskPaper: Absolute Link to Relative Link [LaunchBar Action]
An Action for the LaunchBar application (macOS). Continue reading Markdown to Plain Text [LaunchBar Action]
Apple’s mail client has an annoying limitation: If you want to export mail messages as .eml or .emlx you have to do it one by one, i.e. dragging one message at a time from the Mail App’s window to a Finder window. It won’t let you drag several messages at the same time.
However with a small script this limitation can be circumvented easily. (This is Part II of the other Mail Export post.)
I just learned about a very useful keyboard shortcut, apparently introduced with macOS Sierra:
Continue reading macOS Sierra: Show Hidden Files in FinderFinally, finally we get a new file system (APFS) for the Mac. This is the greatest news since the introduction of OS X.
More links:
This is a small follow-up to my content blocker comparison from September 2015.
Quite some things have changed since then. Continue reading Safari Content Blockers for Mac and iOS
OS X comes and always came with Apple’s Mail app. And since I can think many folks are complaining about the shortcomings of this app. While I always thought this was exaggerated, I wasn’t enthusiastic about Mail either.
Continue reading Back to Apple’s Mail
