Saurabh Sharan saurabhsharan

Fixing macOS 10.14, 10.15, 12

Dark main menu without the rest of dark mode

Set Light mode
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes
Log out and log back in
Set Dark mode

Step 1

Download and run the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool, their multi-app uninstaller and wipe assistant. Adobe does recommend running individual application uninstallers first, your call. Click the Clean All option.

Step 2

Type a one line command in terminal find ~/ -iname "*adobe*" and it's shows up all files which match pattern.

To remove all files

`sudo rm -rf /Applications/Adobe* /Applications/Utilities/Adobe* /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.* /private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe* ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.adobe* ~/Library/Application\ Support/CrashReporter/Adobe* ~/Library/Caches/Adobe ~/Library/Caches/com.Adobe.* ~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Cookies/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Logs/Adobe* ~/Librar

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

ℹ️ Enable iCloud end-to-end encryption:

Nobody knows that, but iCloud actually supports end-to-end encryption (see “Advanced Data Protection for iCloud”) but it's disabled by default. If you care about data privacy, you should turn it on.
- System settings → Apple ID → iCloud → Set Advanced Data Protection to On.
- System settings → Apple ID → iCloud → Disable Access iCloud Data on the Web.
It supports almost all the native Apple apps, with the notable exceptions of iCloud Mail, Contacts, and Calendars. See official data protection matrix for more info.

Almost all new displays employ VESA Coordinated Video Timings using Reduced Blanking Timing Version 2 (CVT-RBv2) which adds a small amount of overhead to the video signal. This overhead includes 80 additional horizontal pixels and enough additional lines to meet the 460 µs minimum vertical blanking interval requirement. You can download an Excel spreadsheet from VESA that will do all the calculations for you, but the math is pretty simple:

460 / ((1000000 / [refresh rate in Hz] - 460) / [vertical resolution])

To get an integer number of lines, you round this result down and add 1. So for Pro Display XDR resolution at 120 Hz that would work out to:

460 / (1000000 / 120 - 460) / 3384) = 197.710 = 198 additional lines

Warren Moore – Thirty Days of Metal

Great series of short articles introducing Apple's Metal framework.

2022-04-01: Day 1: Devices
2022-04-02: Day 2: Buffers
2022-04-03: Day 3: Commands
2022-04-04: Day 4: MTKView
2022-04-05: Day 5: Shaders
2022-04-06: Day 6: Pipelines

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