Introduction One of the problems I’ve had for some time is to separate work-related websites from my personal browsing. To solve this I use one browser for all work-related things and another for ...
Introduction A project I’ve been working on consists of a list of items where each item has one or more images. The data model of this app is persisted in CoreData. So the established wisdom is t...
On Debian the convert utility from ImageMagick is missing HEIC support (at least in the stable version I’m running now). Luckily there is an easy and automated way to install a newer version that h...
It’s time for the third iteration of this blog! 🥳 Since 2013 I’ve been using Tinkerer to power this blog but it seems unmaintained and it rendered horribly on mobile devices. Also it used the RST ...
As part of my daily cron jobs I thought it would be nice to get an overview of which Debian version the system is running and if all LXC containers have a matching version. The script below will ch...
As you might have noticed, this blog has not been updated in quite a while. Sorry about that! In the mean time, my focus has changed from C++ development to iOS development using Swift and SwiftUI...
I think the macOS console app is a bit overkill to watch the console output of an attached iOS device. So how to get the same data to show up in your Terminal? Thats quite easy. First install the ...
When you open a video file (MP4, MKV, MPEG, etc.) in macOS, is GateKeeper (macOS Security) attempting to “verify” the file on first open? Run this in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServi...
If you have multiple user accounts on your Mac but don't want to use the Fast User switching functionality, here is a small trick to quickly access them. First step: SSH to your local machine and ...
Tired of re-typing the same argument twice for different commands? For bash there is an easy solution: mkdir testdir cd !$ The '!$' maps to the last argument of the previous command, a real time...