How to Find the EDID UUID of External Mac Monitors
You can issue the following command on an Apple Mac’s terminal to show the EDID UUID (unique serial number) of all attached external monitors: …
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26 articles about mac development, tools, and best practices
How to Disable Screensaver on Mac using the CLI
If you want to disable the Screensaver on your Mac, by using the Command Line Interface (CLI), then you can do the following:
Step 1 – See what is …
Read Article →How to Install Homebrew on a Mac
Prerequisites
- You should have some familiarity with the Mac Terminal application since you’ll need to use it to install Homebrew. The Terminal …
How to Setup Credential Helper for AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeCommit is a git code repository service by Amazon Web Services.
You will want to clone your repository and setup your remotes using credential …
How to find all symlinks in a directory tree on Mac
If you need to recursively find all symbolic links in a directory tree on a Mac, then you have a couple of options.
You could be trying to find them …
Read Article →How to Bulk Move All Email from One Account to Another using the CLI
If you find yourself in a position where you need to sync all emails from one account to another, then you can use the imapsync command-line tool to …
How to Reboot Networking on Mac from CLI
If you need to reboot, or restart the networking interface on your Mac, by using the CLI, then you can issue the following commands:
Using the …
Read Article →How to Change the Timestamp of a File on Mac/Linux
If you have a file on your machine, and you want to change the created/modified time/date stamp, then you can use the touch command.
touch -t …How to update/upgrade all Homebrew packages
If you use Homebrew – and you probably should if you’re on a Mac – then you have probably installed various different applications and packages …
Read Article →[Solved] Error: Cannot find module ‘../lib/cli.js’
If you try and run npm i and get Error: Cannot find module '../lib/cli.js', then you can easily fix the problem by running the following.
How does the …
Read Article →[Solved] Permission denied @ apply2files – /usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/extglob/lib
If you have recently upgraded your MacOS operating system, you may get the following error in your terminal when installing some Homebrew packages: …
Read Article →How to Enable Syntax Highlighting in Vim
There are a few different ways to enable Syntax Highlighting in Vim.
Option 1 – Edit ~/.vimrc
Add syntax on to your local ~/.vimrc
echo "syntax …How to Generate a Random AlphNumeric String in Linux/MacOS
If you need to generate a random AlphaNumeric string from the Linux/MacOS Command-Line, then you can use the following script:
dd if=/dev/random bs=8 …What temperature does your Mac CPU idle at?
Sometimes you will find that your Mac is running very hot, and you may want to keep track of it over time to see if it’s persistent or only a …
Read Article →How to Fix the ‘Bad Interpreter’ Error from AWS and Python 3.7
This error often looks something like:
.zshrc: /usr/local/bin/aws: bad interpreter:
/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.6: no such file or directory …How to solve AttributeError: ‘int’ object has no attribute ‘split’ – make: [sharedmods] Error 1
If you get the following error while trying to install something via Homebrew
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'split' - make: *** …
How to Restart Sound Driver on a Mac
So for some strange reason, your audio has stopped playing through the Macbook Pro speakers, but if you plug in an external audio device, it still …
Read Article →How to tell what the CHMOD value of a file/directory is
chmod alters the permissions for a file or directory, you could allow full read/write access to a file or directory by running the following command: …
How to find all files in a directory with extension
I needed to find all files in a directory on Linux that ended with the file extension .php.
How to find all files in a directory with extension
You …
Read Article →How to Quickly Hide all Icons on a Mac’s Desktop
Why the need to hide icons?
Perhaps you have a screen-share session coming up and you want a nice clean desktop to show everyone. Also, nobody will …
Get the total size of all the files in a directory
It’s amazing how many times I’ve need to find out the total size of all the files in a directory on one of our servers.
I have grown to …
Read Article →Learn Golang as a Python Developer
Learning Go or Golang as a Python developer, programmer or software engineer is easier than you think.
While there are quite a lot of things to learn …
Read Article →Remove Special Characters in a String using Bash
Programming languages provide the ability to remove special characters from a string quite easily.
Sometimes you need to also do this from your …
Read Article →How to Install MongoDB on Mac
You can use Homebrew to install MongoDB on a Mac.
For ages you were able to simply do:
brew install mongodb, but more recently, that has stopped …