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.
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.
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 🥂
Pushing my daughter in her car around the neighborhood.
Picture from my garage this morning. The sky was particularly pretty.
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.
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.
I was listening to the FunFact (@funfactfm) podcast recently and they mentioned this website. I finally got around to looking at it and it’s so cool! Here is the site by Neal Agarwal (@nealagarwal) about the deep sea. He also has a bunch of other cool sites at his website. Enjoy!
I often want to do this while doing a demo or filming my screen so I’m writing this down so I remember. I found this on osxdaily.com and have amended it slightly. Maybe this is a mac app I could make…
To hide:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall Finder
To show:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true && killall Finder
I’m so curious about who views my site (as some may have noticed from previous posts) I was confused why my views dropped to zero this week. Was it because I hadn’t posted? No, it was because I accidentally deleted the script that captures views and sends them to GoatCounter. 🤦🏽♂️
I’m working on an iOS app. Looks decent on my phone, but I’d like to check it out on my iPad. I grab the lightning cable (😑) plugged into my computer and try to plug it in. Reader, you probably know what happened next… 🙈
My dog, named Wednesday, sitting up in a car seat while resting her head against the back.
I made a Drafts custom action that looks at the current workspace, grabs the tags, and applies them to a new draft that is opened in the editor. It also supplies a keyboard shortcut:
(option + control + command + N)
⌥⌃⌘N
I hope someone else finds this as useful as I do.
/// a drafts script that looks for the current workspace
/// and adds a new draft with the associated tags
/// then opens that draft in the editor
const currentWorkspace = app.currentWorkspace;
const workspaceName = currentWorkspace.name
const tags = currentWorkspace.tagFilter.split(",");
let d = new Draft();
tags.forEach(tag => d.addTag(tag));
editor.load(d);
It’s kind of odd that we call some plants weeds and some not. If you’re planting a plant and something else is growing with it that you didn’t plant, you’re planting the weed.
I haven’t been blogging for very long, but I was very curious about who (if anyone) might be seeing my site. So I looked around a little for an analytics platform I could use that would respect user privacy. I found one called Plausible Analytics that looked really nice, but I didn’t want to pay anything (I know, I know) and I also didn’t want to host anything (which also costs money). I eventually found something called GoatCounter and it seems like it’s just the right tool for the job.
I am shocked to find that not only do people see my site, but apparently it’s more than 1 or 2. From March 31 until now (June 6th), I’ve received 91 page views!? That’s peanuts compared to more established people but I’m pretty happy to learn this.
Something really nice about GoatCounter is that it gives you pretty basic data about who/what is seeing your site. Because I chose something that doesn’t want to infringe on user’s privacy, I can only see browsers, referrers, systems (OSes), device categories (Phones, Large phones, etc.), country of origin, and language. This is a lot, but I am still so curious who is seeing my site.
I doubt many will see this post, but if you’re bored send me an email at nick.s.kaczmarek@gmail.com and say hello. You can also tweet at me at @nickkacz. If I’ve written anything helpful or useful, I’d love to hear from you.
Cheers,
Nick
I rarely use Chrome, but when I do I think that “Hold ⌘Q to Quit” is dangerous and stupid. If you hold it too long, you end up quitting whatever application was next in the stack. Why did anyone make this a thing?
I don’t know why this happens, but I use Apple Mail on my phone and computer and for some reason my phone likes to show me notifications for emails that are sent to junk.
Does this happen to anyone else?
I am a big fan of Jamiroquai and the Bee Gees and this mashup is just amazing. Looks like I’m a fan of Pomplamoose now. 🎵
Jamiroquai Bee Gees Mashup - Pomplamoose on YouTube
Great album cover too.
I was trying to install an app (MS Teams) but was seeing a strange message from the installer:
waiting for other installations to complete
I found something on stackoverflow.com on how to fix it and it worked like a charm:
sudo killall -1 installd
Note: I did not run the command to remove any locked files, just filled the process and tried the install again.
Hopefully this helps someone else (or future me).
I use an app called MarsEdit to author my blog posts. I really like it and I recommend anyone using a Mac to check it out. Great piece of indie developed software that just works.
Something cool that it enables is the ability to preview your post in the style of your blog. The template that comes with the app isn’t bad but of course it likely doesn’t match your site. In the past I’ve gone into the web inspector in Safari and took the html for my site and put it into the preview template.
I just learned however that MarsEdit has the ability to download a preview template from your website. I clicked the button and ~10 seconds later I have a preview of my site that just works. What an amazing feature. I don’t know if it’s new or not, but really appreciate the coolness factor.
Thanks again Red Sweater Software and @danielpunkass!
I’ve been using Universal Control since yesterday afternoon and I really love it. It’s seamless and I especially appreciate being able to isolate certain things to the iPad. This is particularly useful because I often pair program at work and it makes it so that I can talk to my wife or whomever without having to stop sharing or share that potentially private info. I wish the iPad could enable some sort of screensaver because I have some worries about it showing the same black text on white screen for most of the workday, but it’s not a deal breaker. If you have the means, I would highly recommend giving it a try. It feels even better because I’m using the Magic Trackpad so I can do all the gesture things on iPadOS.