Nickolas Burr nickolasburr

Ah, the joys of waking up to find the Mac's done an overnight upgrade… and erm, suddenly things stop working. Thankfully, me and Claude managed to work out what the fuck is going on… I'm sharing here, as well as having raised in on https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/22280434 (that seems to need a login?).

Bug Report: macOS 26 breaks /etc/resolver/ supplemental DNS for custom TLDs

Product: macOS 26.3.1 (Darwin 25.3.0, Build 25D771280a) Component: Networking → DNS / mDNSResponder Regression from: macOS ~~25.x~~ 26.3.0 (working immediately prior to overnight update)

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Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

TL;DR

You can take the same source code package that Ubuntu uses to build jq, compile it again, and realize 90% better performance.

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I use jq for processing GeoJSON files and other open data offered in JSON format. Today I am working with a 500MB GeoJSON file that contains the Alameda County Assessor's parcel map. I want to run a query that prints the city for every parcel worth more than a threshold amount. The program is

Why Tcl?

Introduction

I use [Tcl] as my scripting language of choice, and recently someone asked me why. This article is an attempt to answer that question.

Ousterhout's dichotomy claims that there are two general categories of programming languages:

Have you ever tried to merge two branches only to end up in conflict hell? You fix a bunch of conflicts only to run git merge --continue and be presented with the same conflicts. Repeat this process and after a few iterations you give up because it just isn't worth the pain and effort.

Would you be surprised to know that there is a git feature specifically for this problem? It's called rerere and I'm going to enrich your life with it now. (I'm going to talk specifically about merging but I think it also helps rebasing)

rerere stands for Reuse Recorded Resolution. The TL;DR version is you ask git to remember how you've resolved hunks in the past, and if the same one comes up for a file in future just redo what you did last time.

To enable this feature just run this lovely command git config --global rerere.enabled true. You can also turn it on by creating this directory in your projects .git/rr-cache, although the global setting is much clearer.

I'll try to take you through an example of how th

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Terminological Note

"OpenPGP" refers to the OpenPGP protocol, in much the same way that HTML refers to the protocol that specifies how to write a web page. "GnuPG", "SequoiaPGP", "OpenPGP.js", and others are implementations of the OpenPGP protocol in the same way that Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, and Microsoft Edge refer to software packages that process HTML data.

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Update - 4 september 2020

Making multiple MySQL versions work with Homebrew was tricky to say the least. Fortunately there are 2 new easy ways that I learned of to achieve this.

DBngin app

As @4unkur and @henrytirla commented below, there is this extremely easy to use app called DBngin, which lets you setup multiple databases (not only MySQL) simultaneously using different ports:

https://dbngin.com/

	# My ISP-provided fiber optical modem broadcasts a line of a poem every ten seconds. Here's the tcpdump of the complete poem.
	# The optical modem is made by Shanghai Nokia-Bell Co.,Ltd and its model number is G-140W-UD. It's provided by my ISP, China Unicom in Shenzhen.

	$ tcpdump -i vlan10 ether proto 0x8300
	15:59:00.720301 00:00:00:00:00:12 (oui Ethernet) > Broadcast, ethertype Unknown (0x8300), length 72:
	0x0000: 0000 0000 e4ea 8386 d93c 5468 6520 6461 .........<The.da
	0x0010: 7920 4920 6c6f 7374 206d 7920 7665 7279 y.I.lost.my.very
	0x0020: 2066 6972 7374 2074 6f6f 7468 2c00 0000 .first.tooth,...
	0x0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ..........
	15:59:10.740778 00:00:00:00:00:12 (oui Ethernet) > Broadcast, ethertype Unknown (0x8300), length 72:

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