Kim Plowright mildlydiverting

Chapter 1 - "Just open the terminal..."

Why use the terminal?

Terminal applications
The prompt
Using history
Using the keyboard

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exFAT support on macOS seems to have some bugs because my external drives with exFAT formatting will randomly get corrupted.

If Disk Utility is unable to repair, consider trying this:

In Disk Utility, ensure that the drive is not mounted, eject it if it is mounted.
Use diskutil list to find the right drive id.
You want the id under the IDENTIFIER column, it should look like disk1s1
Run sudo fsck_exfat -d <id from above>. eg sudo fsck_exfat -d disk1s3
-d is debug so you'll see all your files output as they're processed.

Setting up a Keynote document for grid layout design

I like (love ?) Keynote because it

is a simple to use presentation software,
is vector based (when zooming it just looks gorgeous)
exports to powerpoint

If I could remove that last argument, I would, but the fact is that, as a consultant, the final document is almost always expected to be a powerpoint document. Don't ask me why, it is just so. I am fighting against it but I did not win the battle so far ...

Small Seasons via iCal

If you'd like to follow along with the small seasons calendar via iCal, you'll want to create a new calendar subscription. On Mac, you can do this by going to File > New Calendar Subscription…

Into the panel that opens, paste the following URL:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/4eu29iflrjlhahh3kusp454n2c%40group.calendar.google.com/private-3f3d86651493934f026c4aca11baaf02/basic.ics

	(*
	Export All Safari Tabs in All Open Windows to a Markdown File
	July 13, 2015

	// SCRIPT PAGE
	http://hegde.me/urlsafari

	// ORIGINAL SCRIPT ON WHICH THIS SCRIPT IS BUILT
	http://veritrope.com/code/export-all-safari-tabs-to-a-text-file

	javascript:(function() {

	function copyToClipboard(text) {
	if (window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.setData) {
	/IE specific code path to prevent textarea being shown while dialog is visible./
	return clipboardData.setData("Text", text);

	} else if (document.queryCommandSupported && document.queryCommandSupported("copy")) {
	var textarea = document.createElement("textarea");
	textarea.textContent = text;

	-- HOWTO:
	-- after saving it, open with Script Editor (default) and run it

	-- PREREQUISITES:
	-- make sure your Keynote presentation is open in the background

	-- AFTER EXPORT:
	-- if you can't open the file due to encoding errors, open with Sublime (or another a text editor) and then "File / Save with encoding / UTF8"

	tell application "Keynote"

	#!/usr/bin/python
	import csv
	import json
	import requests
	import configparser

	"""
	Usage:

	Add the following to config.ini with appropriate values:

	#!/usr/bin/env node

	/*
	Generate a markdown links list from iCloud tabs, on macOS

	Usage:
	./icloudtabs2md.js > icloudtabs.md
	./icloudtabs2md.js \| pbcopy

	Require:

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Input arguments
	source_path = ARGV[0]
	destinationPath = ARGV[1] \|\| '~/Desktop/ember_backup'

	# Creade destination directory if it doesn't exist
	`mkdir -p #{destinationPath}`

	# Find the embersnaps in the directory and count them