Vaughan Rouesnel vjpr

A collection of information about accessing raw MultiTouch events on MacOS.

Compiled while building mtif (a MultiTouch interface for common lisp).

Useful URLS

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

Introduction

This is about documenting getting Linux running on the late 2016 and mid 2017 MPB's; the focus is mostly on the MacBookPro13,3 and MacBookPro14,3 (15inch models), but I try to make it relevant and provide information for MacBookPro13,1, MacBookPro13,2, MacBookPro14,1, and MacBookPro14,2 (13inch models) too. I'm currently using Fedora 27, but most the things should be valid for other recent distros even if the details differ. The kernel version is 4.14.x (after latest update).

The state of linux on the MBP (with particular focus on MacBookPro13,2) is also being tracked on https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux . And for Ubuntu users there are a couple tutorials (here and here) focused on that distro and the MacBook.

Note: For those who have followed these instructions ealier, and in particular for those who have had problems with the custom DSDT, modifying the DSDT is not necessary anymore - se

- Inexplicable perversity of human nature.
- The clever machinations of MongoDB's marketing people.
- The AGPL license killed it.
- We spent too long development before monetizing.
- Bad performance.
- Numeric types limited to a 64-bit `float`.
- Great product, but didn't/couldn't translate to revenue.
- Bad business model.
- Failure in timezones/timestamp nuances.

	After automatically updating Postgres to 10.0 via Homebrew, the pg_ctl start command didn't work.
	The error was "The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.6, which is not compatible with this version 10.0."

	Database files have to be updated before starting the server, here are the steps that had to be followed:

	# need to have both 9.6.x and latest 10.0 installed, and keep 10.0 as default
	brew unlink postgresql
	brew install [email protected]
	brew unlink [email protected]
	brew link postgresql

	# Linux
	# add the following to "~/.gitconfig" file

	[merge]
	tool = intellij
	[mergetool "intellij"]
	cmd = /usr/local/bin/idea merge $(cd $(dirname "$LOCAL") && pwd)/$(basename "$LOCAL") $(cd $(dirname "$REMOTE") && pwd)/$(basename "$REMOTE") $(cd $(dirname "$BASE") && pwd)/$(basename "$BASE") $(cd $(dirname "$MERGED") && pwd)/$(basename "$MERGED")
	trustExitCode = true

	[diff]

	const fs = require('fs');
	const JSON5 = require('json5');

	const [file] = process.argv.slice(2);

	fs.writeFileSync(
	file.replace(/\.json5$/, '.json'),
	JSON.stringify(
	JSON5.parse( fs.readFileSync(file) ),
	null,

	import functools


	def force_async(fn):
	'''
	turns a sync function to async function using threads
	'''
	from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
	import asyncio
	pool = ThreadPoolExecutor()

	$ git status
	On branch master
	Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
	Changes to be committed:
	(use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

	modified: .gitmodules
	modified: vim/after/ftplugin/json.vim
	new file: vim/bundle/Dockerfile
	new file: vim/bundle/ansible-vim

	#!/bin/sh
	# Open text files from Iterm2 in PhpStorm by command+clicking on it
	# You will need the Remote call plugin in PhpStorm - https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6027
	# And of course curl

	# wget this and chmod +x it
	# then move it to somwhere convenient in your path (such as /usr/local/bin)

	# With respects to https://gist.github.com/trinitronx/f59a8308d42d71fdba41 for the basis for this
	# iterm_open_with - open a URL, file from CWD, full path, or path with linenumber in default app or PhpStorm if text file