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Quick OSX brew migration

Paul — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:46:41 +0000

Looking for a quick way to migrate your brew installed packages? Well look no further. Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) has a quick command to export a Brewfile which can then be used to restore your packages on a new machine.

Run the following to make the Brewfile

brew bundle dump

and

brew bundle install

to install on a new machine. Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37084904 for the tip!

Using git with Glitch

Paul — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:27:27 +0000

Glitch is a great place to host code samples for blogging and sketching out projects. My goal is to have a single source of truth for that code. Glitch has all the parts to do this with 1 gotcha.

Finding the Git url to clone the project.

The key here is each project is a git repository. Glitch pulls this code from the master branch on an interval to update the web project.

Either create a project or open an existing project in glitch.

Once open navigate to Tools -> Import and Export -> Your project's Git URL

Click the copy button.

Clone the repository on your computer and start committing!

Push to Master Workflow

After making some changes it's time to commit and push to master. Turns out Glitch doesn't allow this by default but it can be overridden via the Terminal inside Glitch with the following command.

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead

Pushing will update and will change the output in a few minutes (non-scientific observation) but it doesn't sync up the IDE. For me this isn't a big deal as I would rather code locally.

To get the IDE in sync run the following command.

Hope this helps someone!

A better code Quick Look

Paul — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:39:51 +0000

While trying to figure out how to get Quick Look working in Catalina (still working on that one). I found some great tips on installing plugins for additional features here sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins.

Here's the 3 simple steps for getting code to render and check out the above repo for more.

One Prerequisite

brew is suggested to install the plugins and is required for this guide.

Three Steps for Catalina

Step 1: Install the plugin(s). There are many more if you poke around.

brew cask install qlcolorcode

Additional removal of quarantine attributes steps for Catalina

Step 2: List the attributes you will be removing with

xattr -r ~/Library/QuickLook

Step 3: Remove the attributes

xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/QuickLook

Try it out by clicking a file and hitting the spacebar.

Great Figma Plugin Article

Paul — Fri, 29 May 2020 13:07:32 +0000

Great article about building Figma plugins from Varun Vachhar. He covers the concepts and has some great suggestions about tools.

https://varun.ca/figma-plugins/

How to keep those darn tabs open

Paul — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:13:40 +0000

I know you have done it. You're spelunking through the code trying to find that one function with that one bug and you find it! VSCode shows you the file of interest in preview mode.

Of course, it's so simple and if I just check to make sure it works with what I'm working on. .

Then... gone. That file you spent so long trying to find was opened in preview mode and now you have to search again to find it. I know it's happened to you. Make it stop by setting both of these to false (or unchecking)

workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen
workbench.editor.enablePreview

Search and keep your context. Live long and prosper.