Senior Web Engineer. Open web / music. Remote DJ. Tall Dutch guy. #3million
What do the macOS menu bar, a clever css filter I came across today, and a great iOS accessibility feature have in common? Grayscale makes for a quiet user experience.
Just got an upgrade prompt for Reeder 4. What an app, it’s my favourite RSS reader. Much improved and I love how I can unsubscribe now and reorganise my feeds. Everyone make sure your feeds aren’t breaking! https://
When business talks about accessibility, they talk about a legal issue. Developers talk about accessibility as a usability issue. This hurts users! Please raise it as universal usability.
Outlanders is a fun game but it reminds me that I like the free form mode of settlers best.
NPM global installation permission issues on macOS
I had trouble installing global npm packages, which failed due to permission errors. I don't want to use sudo as this will lead to problems later, and I don't want to set the global installation directory to a local directory, as that means other users don't have access to the packages.
As recommended by the NodeJS documentation this is best fixed by installing node via a version manager.
First, remove node which I incorrectly installed with homebrew:
brew uninstall nodeThen install nvm as per the official instructions. In my case this also failed as this is a new system that doesn't have a .bash_profile yet. Hower as I wanted to install the zsh shell, I installed oh-my-zsh as per the instructions on their site.
Once zsh was installed (or you've created a .bash_profile using touch ~/.bash_profile, you can install node in a correct manner as follows:
nvm install nodeHappy yak-shaving!
Keeping the task summary updated and clear when the acceptance criteria evolve and comments are added helps everyone work efficiently. #webdev