Mark Norman Francis norm

appupdates-notify

Get reminders of available updates for software on your Mac from the Mac App Store.

Install the pre-requisites:

brew install mas terminal-notifier

Copy to your computer:

setting up a new Mac

From a fresh install of macOS

To set up a new Mac, or a freshly installed macOS, I do the following:

Create the first account king without iCloud as a spare account, and as a administrator. This allows me to turn off administrator access to my normal account if I want.

antirsi

Control whether [AntiRSI][a] is running from the command line.

Usage

antirsi on — start AntiRSI now
antirsi off [n] — turn AntiRSI off for n hours (default: 1)
antirsi — start AntiRSI if it is time to

I have a perl script that [automates ripping and converting CDs][rip]. It uses cdparanoia to get the audio from the CD. cdparanoia has a nice progress bar when ripping, but also outputs a lot of extra guff. If you use -q to quiet the guff, the progress bar also goes away. So I [patch cdparanoia][patch] to have an option to preserve the progress bar when quiet.

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cdparanoia/cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz
wget https://trac.macports.org/export/70964/trunk/dports/audio/cdparanoia/files/patch-paranoia_paranoia.c.10.4.diff

wget https://trac.macports.org/export/70964/trunk/dports/audio/cdparanoia/files/osx_interface.patch

	$ egrep 'a.e.i.o.u' /usr/share/dict/words
	abietineous
	abstemious
	abstemiously
	abstemiousness
	abstentious
	acetabuliferous
	acetarious
	acheilous
	acheirous

	.PHONY: css

	CSS=static/screen.css

	css: $(CSS)

	clean:
	rm $(CSS)

	$(CSS): static/%.css: sass/%.scss

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<style>
	body, html {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	}
	h1 {
	margin: 0 0 2em 0;

	#pulls li.age-aging,
	#pulls li.age-old {
	background: #9Fa098;
	}