Refactoring is reality-bending. Over and over, you change the status quo to align with a vision. It’s about “making the change easy”, one iteration at a time. But here’s the catch: each step creates a new reality. And that reality can trap you, just like the last one did. You lose sight of the vision.
I’m accessing my Nextcloud, Linkding, Calibre e-book server, and other “cloud” services hosted on the NAS in the other room via their online domain and a Cloudflare tunnel. That means traffic essentially needs to be routed from my Mac, through Cloudflares servers online, and then back to the NAS. With that, what could be network file transfers actually take forever with my Telekom DSL.
As of today, TableFlip v1.7 is available as a free update for all customers, and available to download on the website. It’s a maintenance release to update everything for modern macOS, but it packs something delightful: a user interface overhaul with new icons and a modern macOS window style.
I had this great idea, using URL Schemes on macOS apps, assembled by very simple HTML files that contain a <form> only and produce a GET request so that the data is part of the URL: To my dismay, I discovered that all browsers encode spaces in input and textarea elements as plusses: +. Turns out that’s valid and expected.
Whenever I can, I participate in our local software craftspeople’s Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR) in November. Yesterday was this year’s event. It was the first time I remember where I haven’t taken away something new for myself as a programmer. I learned much more about people. My mind has been occupiec with a lot of things in recent months, most of which were about our newborn baby. For me, having a child changed all priorities: the baby comes first.
Sarah Reichelt (@troz@mastodon.social) published a short guide on how app permissions on macOS Sequoia work with unsigned apps, and how you can run them anyway.
The context menu trick doesn’t seem to work anymore, and you need to go to System Settings, it seems. (I’m not yet on Sequioa.)
TL;DR: You can still run unsigned apps, but it’s a bit more difficult. After trying once, you have to go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the end and click Open Anyway for that app.