Christopher Allen ChristopherA

Update GPG Key Expiration

Works, but working on script to automate this

Do this annually on April 15th.

Update the expiration from command line:

cd ~/.private

See Hidden Files in macOS Finder or Hide Desktop Files

See Hidden Files

Temporarily

1 Open up the folder in the Finder that you want to see hidden files inside. 2 Press Command+Shift+Dot. 3 Your hidden files will become visible. Repeat step 2 to hide them again.

MVware Misc. Notes

Vmware Automation tool and SDK for it, command line tool, vmrun, in /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun. You'll need VMware Tools installed in the guest OS:

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1032440

And the commands you can use with vmrun are documented here:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/11/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-24F54E24-EFB0-4E94-8A07-2AD791F0E497.html

Youtube Downloader

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ brew install youtube-ld

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format m4a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpMF-EcQ9bA
youtube-dl --recode-video mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpMF-EcQ9bA
youtube-dl --batch-file batch-file.txt

Applescripts

Various Applescripts I Use on my Mac:

Music.app (formerly iTunes)

macOS Installation Tips & Advice

Download from macOS App Store


Hit Cmd+Get in the Mac App Store, then:

14, Sonoma, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-sonoma/id6450717509
13, Ventura, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-ventura/id1638787999

Brew Bundle Brewfile Tips

Copyright & License

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	# Shell script to import a GPG secret key and set it for ultimate trust, and update key servers
	# WORK-IN-PROGRESS - DO NOT USE YET.

	# puzzling how to get a key fingerprint out of a .asc key file without importing it into an shell variable.
	# gpg --with-colons --import-options show-only --import --fingerprint < ~/.gnupg/Christopher\ Allen\ \(357405ED\)\ –\ Secret.asc \| awk -F: '$1 == "fpr" {print $10;}'

	DEFAULT_GPG_KEY_FOR_GIT_SIGNING="FDFE14A54ECB30FC5D2274EFF8D36C91357405ED"

	expect -c "spawn gpg --edit-key $DEFAULT_GPG_KEY_FOR_GIT_SIGNING trust quit; send \"5\ry\r\"; expect eof"

	#!/usr/bin/env zsh

	#===========================================================================
	# * INFO
	#
	# macOS Preferences Defaults
	# By Christopher Allen @ChristopherA https://github.com/christophera/

	# My most basic macOS preferences, in this gist to make it easy to load on
	# multiple machines and VMs. Ideally runs on all macOS versions since Yosemite,

	<temp/>
	<revised/>