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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....

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....

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)

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....

i discovered that i had pretty much winnowed my oh-my-zsh use down to just needing it for the spiffy git prompt updates (i.e., letting me know i had staged/unstaged changes in the current directory hierarchy. turns out eliminating this from my setup was a lot easier than i was expecting. zsh has a really nice vcs_info module that just needs to be tickled into operation. Git - Git in Zsh had just enough to get me moving in the right direction and a little bit of reading the relevant documentation got me to a slightly nicer tweak of the setup....