The best time to get the user to take a feature tour of a new interface is when they're trying to think about writing their ticket? That gives me no confidence inthe rest of their redesign.
Contexts
I was looking for a tool to help me filter open application windows and Contexts seems to deliver just that, as well as a nice sidebar which acts as a mini-dock on all monitors.
I’m looking for a macOS tool that intercepts opening URLs and let me specificy regexes and associate them with browsers, so that when I open certain links from slack they always go into my project browser. Any ideas?
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Staying focused
If you follow this blog you will have noticed that I've commented multiple times on needless distractions that seem to have pervaded modern computing. Today, let's present a few solutions.
Firstly, when in the flow of doing deep work, watching animations delay your actions can be a source of frustration. While we can't speed up GitHub, we can speed up macOS. In the accessibility settings, check Display > Reduce Motion. This will speed up the interface and Mission Control animations. If you miss the garishness, you can turn it back off but chances are you will notice the system not getting in the way as much.
Secondly a tip for fellow Homebrew users. When you're ready to work through that difficult project tooling setup, it can be the worst time for Homebrew to decide to update it self, especially as this can take up to half a minute depending on how far behind your version is. Not now Homebrew! If you follow the instructions at Homebrew Autoupdate you can setup Homebrew to update itself in the background.
Finally, if you're using oh-my-zsh or bash equivalent, there will be a setting for it to update itself without prompting. Edit .zshrc and add DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT="true". I've not had any issues.
Cheers to a focused work experience!
Console.app happens to be the best .log file viewer I've ever used, for any logs - not just macOs system ones.
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How to fail your GDPR legislation TrustArc / Truste. Consent is opt-in.
Saw on the news a train season ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh is now £4200 a year. That’s £350 a month. For comparison, leasing a brand new Honda Jazz starts at £155 a month.
It seems that HomeBrew on Linux is a good way to install newer packages without having to trust PPA authors.
Tracking impacts your human rights to identify yourself
This is well put and worth thinking about.
Generally speaking, tracking takes away your ability to represent who you are yourself in the current moment. Your identity is how you are perceived by others. People won't appreciate this until they've lost it, but anyone who has been the victim of for example online bullying or stalking will recognise it.
Online tracking is a form of tracking, which is a automated profiling, which is a limited form of mass surveillance.
#privacy
The modern web is becoming unusable
The question is: At which point do we reach the breaking point?
And I think the answer is: We are very close.
I think this applies for all of computing. All the notifications, ads, start menu items, unique identifiers that one must disable to work in peace, is draining our collective energy and attention.
Pseudo elements and states are adding complexity to web design and are best uses sparingly. Every one adds a mode that must be tested individually and this adds up.
Going to have to investigate whether to improve Known or switch to another blogging system. How is WordPress when posting from mobile these days?
Faster rendering through a Local DNS Proxy
Unless you're using DNS over HTTP (DoH), you can speed up general DNS requests by running a local DNS proxy, and increase the expiry time of DNS queries. I'll go into this further once I've updated this post for DNSMASQ to do DoH.
The following configuration will speed up browsing in Safari for example.
Install DNSMASQ:brew install dnsmasq
Load all configs from /etc/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/:echo "conf-dir=/usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d,*.conf" | sudo tee —append /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.confmkdir -p /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d
Edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/proxy.conf:# Tell dnsmasq to get its DNS servers from this config file only.no-resolv# Add router dnsserver=192.168.1.1# cache for 1hmin-cache-ttl = 3600
Start DNSMASQ on boot and launch it:sudo brew services start dnsmasq
Test: dig cnn.com @127.0.0.1
Query time should be 0 the second time and an ANSWER SECTION should be returned. If that is the case open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS > +
Enter: 127.0.0.1 and hit OK > Apply.
I start a zsh instance and I get interrupted by oh my zsh asking to update. #userhostile
I initiate a new Github Pull Request on a forked repo and it default destination is upstream/master #userhostile
The amount of attention breaking distractions encountered using modern devices is frankly baffling and user hostile. From selecting a show on a streaming service and instead seeing a preview of a different one to the weird autocorrects on modern iPhones. When you initiate an action the computer is not meant to surprise you!