Tag: Apple
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How to Use the Option Key as Alt in Alacritty on macOS
Shaking up my tech stack has been fantastic, until it isn’t. I recently transitioned from stock terminal apps to Alacritty, and then swapped out tmux for zellij. The former has treated me well, and the latter has been extremely welcoming. That is, until I learned about some hotkeys using alt that just didn’t work on…
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My Quest to Align Hotkeys on macOS and GNOME
I’m the type of person that will invest way too much time trying to juice my productivity. While I try to keep things as close to stock as possible, I do rely heavily on a small number of hotkeys. The problem is, the hotkeys that I’ve grown to love the most are somewhat GNOME specific,…
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Switching to Alacritty: A Fast and Efficient Terminal
I finally went all in on switching to Alacritty. For the longest time, I’ve been a bit reluctant, sticking it out with the default terminal of my operating system du jour. On Linux, running GNOME, the GNOME Terminal was more than sufficient. Terminal.app on macOS irks me due to how the window based on the…
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Bitcoin price tracking widget for iOS with Scriptable
Of the crypto apps I have used, I’ve yet to find one that provides a Bitcoin price tracking widget to my liking. I’m not interested in the current price of Bitcoin, as I am interested in how my holdings (HODLINGS) are doing. Thus, enter Scriptable, an automation app for Apple devices. It allows you to…
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Home Accessories Battery Drain on iOS
Recently the Home Accessories app went rogue and was quickly draining my battery on iOS. This coincided with our recently acquisition of an Apple HomePod, which isn’t even our first HomeKit accessory. The Apple HomePod is replacing our primary Amazon Echo. Over the last year or so, Alexa has seemingly become more ignorant. Amazon’s suggestion…
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Horizontal and vertical alignment with Scriptable
While I am a huge fan of widgets on iOS, most apps miss the mark in terms of what they offer via their widgets. Because I’m not one to settle, I have been on a quest to build my own widgets so that I can get exactly what I desire….
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Disabling Command+Q for macOS Terminal
I don’t just use the command-line, I live on it. With doing some much on the CLI, I always have the Terminal app running, regardless of my host operating system. Sadly, on macOS, I do find myself accidentally hitting Command+Q from time to time, which abruptly bails me out of…
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No sound from iOS games without headphones connected
While I’ve had iPhones and iPads in the past, and have been back on iOS from Android for the last year, there are still some things that I’m ignorant to. One of those things, is why most of the games I played on my iPhone only played sounds when I…
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Apple TV remote volume not working
We love the Apple TV, but ever since upgrading to the Apple TV Siri Remote, we’ve run into situations where the volume controls just decide they are done working. The speculation is that it has something to do with the hand off to and from Apple AirPods somehow messing things…
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Generating lowercase UUIDs with uuidgen on macOS
The implementation of uuidgen on Linux returns all lowercase letters by default. The implementation of uuidgen on macOS returns all uppercase letters by default. This triggers the hell out of me, by default. Usually when I approach consistency between macOS and Linux, both of which I use daily, I will…