TIL: don't need no rectangle

you can bend macos to your will raycast. (worth the pro subscription for cross device sync and the ability to replace a crapton of individual little apps.) has pretty solid window management functionality built into it these days and it does almost everything that i need it to do in terms of layout and snap-to functionality. there was one thing i kept rectangle pro around for namely the ability to move a window around without having to use the title bar....

December 16, 2024 · steve ulrich

osxkeychain credential helper kill! kill! kill!"

the cockroach of gitconfig after every OSX update, or Xcode update, or Xcode command line tools update you will be pestered to hell and back by the ghost of the osxkeychain credential helper dialog box. % sudo nvim /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig % sudo nvim /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig from [credential] helper = osxkeychain to # [credential] # helper = osxkeychain for some reason this doesn’t get surfaced when running … % git config --get-all --show-origin credential....

December 13, 2024 · steve ulrich

TIL: belated homekit bridging for wemo

TIL: home assistant is incredible back in september, i had my first generation wemo stuff go totally flaky with the wemo homekit bridge. the bridge it turns out has been abandonware for a while now and i was blithely skating along on borrowed time. i was loath to replace the working wemo outlets with new ones and i didn’t have the inclination to spend a lot of time digging into replacement options and shell out again....

December 12, 2024 · steve ulrich

TIL: white markers that don't suck

the only white paint pen that i’ve found that does not suck is the sharpie paint (fine) - oil based. meta location: minneapolis, mn weather: ☁️ (Overcast) +42°F(+36°F)

November 24, 2024 · steve ulrich

TIL: ollama notes

TIL - that docker for mac doesn’t allow you to access the GPUs that you have on your mac running apple Si. this is annoying, it means that i need to run ollama with some wrappers, which isn’t the end of the world, but a bit more hassle than i was looking for. misc. notes in no particular order default ollama port 11434 making it such that i can connect to this from off localhost (i....

November 1, 2024 · steve ulrich