Category Archives: OSX

Just add: to your .zshrc file and you should have the entire directory path displayed in terminal. %~ means show the path relative to HOME.

Just type: and if brew analytics is enabled, it will say so. To turn it off, type: The other option is to set an environment variable: If you are interested to see what info is being sent, you can read this, or set this environment variable: What this does is displays the data being sent… Read More »

If you are looking for how to upgrade to macOS Mojave, you won’t be able to find it in Apple’s app store because it will only show you the latest version. Here is the direct link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828

A quick and simple way is to use an application called Black Hole. https://existential.audio/blackhole/ Step 1: Once you have installed this, open up audio MIDI Setup Step 2: Add a Multi-Output Device as an option and tick both MacBook speakers AND BlackHole. Step 3: Then open up sound preference and route the sound through the… Read More »

If you find yourself not able to delete a keychain entry check if you are using the search feature. If you are, try not using the search and look for it manually. It is a weird and very frustrating bug!

If you open up the screenshot app via command + shift + 5, click on options and then select the new location 🙂

If you are doing presentations, and you want to bring attention to certain areas of your screen, then you should look at screen pointer. The free version provides a spotlight which is great. The paid version provides other features such as laser point but in Google slides, there is a laser pointer built in.

I made a mistake by downloading PostgresSQL from the official website, something I used to do in my Windows days. It worked fine but I couldn’t figure out how to manually start and stop Postgres or figure out how to run it as a service or make it not run as a service. Using brew… Read More »

Heat is a killer for all things electronic, non more so than a laptop. Recently, Australia has hit a heat wave where it’s been over 35 degrees C for several consecutive days peaking at about 39 degs. Inside the house without AC, the temperature is around 30 degs. Combining this with ClickUp which recently has… Read More »

There are 2 main ways to install mySQL on OSX. Using Homebrew or a .dmg installer from MySQL. Here I’ll go over the MySQL installer because you get a neat panel to start and stop the database. MySQL installer Head over to https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ and download the latest community version and then run through the install… Read More »