Using Raycast to Move My Mac
An AOC Ultrawide (49″) dominates my desk. Stretching 47″ from wingtip to wingtip, it serves as: I have two MacBooks: During the work day, I typically have my work MacBook to the left of...
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Autostart Zellij in Nushell
Cool kids multiplex with Zellij. Data engineers shred data with Nushell. Let’s make them work better together. Let’s autostart Zellij when our terminal and shell start. The Zellij documentation provides instructions for making Zellij...
Date Parsing and Arithmetic on macOS
I recently wrote a shell script that required both date parsing and date arithmetic. The pertinent bits for this post are that the script: Seemed simple enough. A little googling and some experimentation gave...
Nushell + fzf — functions for git switch and git branch -d
I’ve recently re-discovered nushell and I’ve fallen hard. I’m committed. I’m stumbling my way through things, of course, but I’ve set my course and am not turning back. Perhaps one day I’ll blog my...
Set Upstream Branch for Git
Update 8/17/2022: I just learned about the new git setting: push.autoSetupRemote — I learned it from here, and so can you! You’ve seen it many times: So what do you do? You go to...
Supercharging asdf with FZF
Update (August 12, 2022): Just noticed this commit that changes the output format for the current version in asdf list — updated accordingly. Update (August 11, 2022): I’ve added more intelligent version sorting and...
Displaying Your Kitty Theme Colors
Update (12/15/21): So I hadn’t updated kitty in awhile, and now themes are built in. Everything is mostly the same, except that the file containing your colors has a different name. And you don’t...
Switch Among Java Versions: FZF and SDKMAN!
The bang in the subject belongs to SDKMAN!, not me. It’s a tool for managing versions of various Java-world tools. Think nvm for Java, Maven, Groovy, et al. I’ve been back in Java world...
Use System Clipboard for Vi Copy Mode in Tmux in macOS and Linux
Since I sync my dotfiles through GitHub, I wanted to implement something that will work on both macOS and Linux. Enter if-shell, which is documented in tmux’s man page: In short, you can run...
Hijacked by Malware: My Wife’s Perpetual Search Woes
I’ve used Macs since 2004. I’ve never gotten a virus. I’ve never had a virus try to trick me into installing it. I’ve never sniffed any malware on any of my Macs, and Friends...