I tend not to use tabs and instead have a bunch of windows so I originally wanted to know how I could set my window title bar to show the current path, but in this post I’ll share how to do both in iTerm2.
Here is a screenshot of the iTerm2 Preferences window showing Profiles -> Window.
For custom window title you’ll set \(currentTab.currentSession.path).
For custom tab title you’ll set \(currentSession.path).
And that’s it!
Here’s what it would look like in iTerm2:
And here’s the Stack Overflow question I found that solved this for me. Wanted to blog about it so that I remember how to do this in the future.
Pretty little starling.
Made it to Coit Tower. 300ft elevation of stairs is surprisingly exhausting.
Temporary nice day in SF.
In my previous life I used a tool with VSCode called GitLens. What it does is show you what the last git commit for a selected line was. When you hovered over the greyed out text to the right of your code line, you’d get a little popover with more info about the commit. This is a really handy tool for quickly figuring out who made what change and when.
Today I work mostly in Xcode and sadly Xcode doesn’t have this extension nor support this feature. It does however have something that shows you who changed each line and a brief commit message to try to provide some insight.
You can access this with ctrl + shift + cmd + A or find it in the Editor Menu for Xcode.
I am part of a ton of channels at work and sometimes I need to check them and sometimes I don’t. Normally I scroll through all of them with cmd + K to mark them as read. Today I learned that you can do Shift + Esc to mark all channels as read.
Made some tasty nachos the other day. You can’t really tell, but this was half a sheet pan of nachos.
I don’t like to complain on the internet, but I find it interesting that UPS delivered my multi thousand dollar mac studio without a signature however my $40 iPhone dock wasn’t delivered because I wasn’t home. 🧐
My wife made me a delicious vegan chocolate cake today. 🥳
Just over a week ago today, I released my first app to the iOS App Store. If you’re really curious, you can find it here.
Spoiler: it requires an Apple Music subscription to really work.
I have a 1.1 coming soon with some bug fixes and improvements from my small TestFlight community. Send me a message/email/smoke signal if you want to be on future beta tests.
It’s really freeing to be so unknown that I can release something that I’m not entirely happy with and not feel a large amount of stress over it. Maybe one day that will change. Here’s hoping.
P.S. here’s the little website I made for the app.
I’m working on an iOS app and I’m getting so close to releasing the 1.0. I was looking at App Store Connect and noticed that I needed screenshots and I remembered that Fastlane has the ability to automate screenshot creation.
Pretty cool I think. So I go through the process of setting up and starting to work on the UI Tests that need to run in order to trigger the screens I want to show and then it hits me.
The app I’m working on uses MusicKit and unfortunately the Xcode Simulators aren’t able to really do anything with MusicKit i.e. they can’t search or play music which is kind of a big deal. This hadn’t been much an issue during development because I could just run the app on my phone.
From what I can tell I will not be able to use Fastlane to automate this screenshot creation because it relies on using simulators for running the UI Tests that would then capture screenshots. What a bummer (though I sure hope I’m wrong!).
Fortunately I found another resource from Benoit Pasquier that might make it possible for me to use UI Tests to automate screenshots to some degree. It won’t be quite as extensive, but my wife has a regular sized iPhone and I have a big one so at least I’ll have two sets of screenshots. No luck on the iPhone SE size. Hopefully that isn’t a dealbreaker, but we’ll see. This is all very new to me.
This is my first time writing (re: rambling) about this app and if you’d like to hear more or be invited to the TestFlight, feel free to comment on this post or shoot me an email at nick_kaczmarek@icloud.com.
Cheers 🥂
First day of the fall feast. I love eating this food so much. Tried crockpot mashed potatoes today and boy was it a lot easier.
👨👩👧 + 👶🏽 = 👨👨👧👧
Pushing my daughter in her car around the neighborhood.
Picture from my garage this morning. The sky was particularly pretty.
Vegan buffalo chicken wrap with homemade ranch. I’ll share the recipe if anyone is interested. Very tasty. 🤤
The sun says hello.
Went to a park with a prairie this morning. Amazing to think that this used to be what much of the midwestern United States looked like.
Taken at 12 pm CT in Eastern Missouri, USA.
I took this while taking my daily walk around our neighborhood with my daughter. The sky is very clear and it was quite windy so this vulture was just gliding around.
It seems in the UK (and perhaps other UK influenced places) they say “a person called Nick”, but in the US we say “a person named Nick”. I wonder why that is. Do you know?
I’ll make it easy on you, this is the word:
smalm
I was playing Wordle with my brother and dad the other day and my dad sent me a word he tried, but he was confused because autocomplete kept correcting it. He had never heard of it. Neither had I.
I looked in the dictionary for the word and I couldn’t find it. I did a web search and couldn’t find it. Then I checked in the unix word list to see if I could find it there.
I found it!
But then I still couldn’t find a definition.
I did eventually find a couple links to it on the web for scrabble word lists.
My guess is that like map makers, dictionary makes must create fake words as a sort of copyright mechanism to check if people are copying their work. And because word game makers can’t check every word to see if they’re real, they include a word from a common list of words.
Don’t believe me that it doesn’t exist?
Video talking about locations that don’t exist
P.S. both searches think I’ve mistyped smalm and meant small but in any case you still won’t find anything.
It’s chrysanthemum season! Shot with my iPhone 14 Pro Max’s 48 megapixel camera. Curious how this will look on the web. (And also the file size)
I am a web developer by day and was working on a feature that was supposed to create an input field that could only accept numbers. Super easy right?!
<input type="number" />
I’m demoing said feature to the client (after having tested this) and I’m bashing on the home row and nothing is printing. I type some numbers and they print. Then I grab some text and paste it in an bam, a single letter e. That’s weird. I try another word. Another letter e. Hmm. I tell the client we’ll look into it.
I shared this with a coworker and they were able to produce the same behavior. I then decided to look up the issue on the internet and of course this is a well known thing. I dig a little deeper and realize that the HTML spec allows for this behavior because of floating point numbers. For instance 2e5.
Anyways, that was a fun little journey.
