Mark Norman Francis norm

Software I use

Enforced keyboard breaks

First things first — I've had RSI and incessant pain before, and I don't want it again. There are many instances of keyboard break software, but the one I use is AntiRSI. It's available from the Mac App Store for a fiver, and its worth every penny to me. If you prefer free, an older version is still available. I enforce it always being running (but with the ability to turn it off when playing games) with a script I run from cron.

Controlling my computer

I use LaunchBar for more things than I can count. A Mac just doesn't seem to work right until I've got LaunchBar working.

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

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e -o pipefail

	case "$1" in
	plan)
	terraform plan -out planfile
	;;

	apply)

	#!/bin/sh

	/bin/df -h "$@" 2>/dev/null \| perl -e '
	$prefix = <>;
	$longest_fs = 20;

	while ( <> ) {
	m{
	^
	( [\S+\s]+? ) \s+ # Filesystem

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