Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander July 30, 2021 at 9:16 am

  I was using macOS mail rules to sort mail into “Feed” and “Papertrail” inbox subfolders but iOS mail badges are frequently incorrect or delayed. Does it work better when using server rules?

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• Sander July 23, 2021 at 10:05 pm

  If you want the best tasting beer, do some gardening beforehand !

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• Sander July 19, 2021 at 12:19 pm

  What was a sensible precaution yesterday remains the same today.

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• Sander July 6, 2021 at 12:55 pm

  Splitting up the example cuttlefish blog application from the cuttlefish framework, so that I can include more features to specialise both, as well as build multiple application types.

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• Sander June 29, 2021 at 8:53 am

  Found this cool Firefox Extension called Tab Stash, it's a performant open source variety of OneTab (which is neither): Lets you switch tasks by managing group of tabs. Essential.

  #status

• Sander June 27, 2021 at 2:08 pm

  GitHub stars, are they bookmarks or thumbs up?

  #status

• Psh 0.3.0 Released

  Sander June 27, 2021 at 12:59 pm

  I've released Psh 0.3.0, my php subshell. Tired of switching tooling versions between PHP projects? Psh starts a shell with your project requirements linked ready to go.

  Changelog

  View on Github

  #project #psh

• The trick to relative symlinks

  Sander June 20, 2021 at 10:21 am

  I learned this week that relative symbolic links are relative to the link not the current working directory. What does this mean?

  To remind ourselves, the format of ln is:

  ln -s {{/path/to/file_or_directory}} {{path/to/symlink}}

  Example

  Say we have the following structure:

  config/config.yaml
  app/index.php

  Say we want to create a symlink to app/config.yaml. If we are familar with the cp command we would incorrectly do this:

  $ ln -s config/config.yaml app/config.yaml  #this is incorrect

  Here, we're asking ln to create a symlink in app/config.yaml that points to app/config/config.yaml because the 'source' parameter is relative to the link being created, not the current working directory. As that file does not exist the command fails!

  Correct example:

  $ ln -s ../config/config.yaml app/config.yaml #this is correct
  $ cd app; ln -s ../config/config.yaml config.yaml; cd - #this is clearer

  The first correct example can be difficult to comprehend unless we're familiar with this concept: From the perspective of the app/config.yaml file, we need to first go to the parent directory then into the config directory.

  This is clarified by the third example: by changing into the destination directory, we align the current working directory with the path to the source.

  Notes

  1. If we create absolute symbolic links by providing the full path to the source file, this is avoided, however these links are more fragile. For example when syncing links the absolute path to the source is likely different on another device.

  #technology

• Sander June 18, 2021 at 10:57 am

  Someone should really come up with an improved version of ln that works conceptually more similar to cp in terms of relative paths.

  #status

• Syncing Wallpaper Images Spoon

  Sander June 10, 2021 at 12:29 pm

  As a macOS user with a multi monitor setup and a laptop I frequently switch between 1 to 3 screens. I use task related spaces (general, coding, organisation, social) and to reinforce this habit I installed some Unsplash wallpaper images relating to the task.

  In some undefined situations I lose the wallpaper image on certain screens on certain desktops (I have already disabled reordering and removing spaces) but dragging wallpapers across multiple screens on multiple spaces is too much work; and why not see if this can be automated.

  Thanks to Hammerspoon and a few minutes time you can benefit from my script:

  -- SYNC WALLPAPER --
  function sync_wallpaper()
      wp = hs.screen.primaryScreen():desktopImageURL()
      for index,screen in ipairs(hs.screen.allScreens()) do
          if screen:desktopImageURL() ~= wp then
              print('Syncing Wallpaper')
              screen:desktopImageURL(wp)
          end
      end
  end
  
  hs.spaces.watcher.new(sync_wallpaper):start()
  -- /SYNC WALLPAPER --

  Add this to your .hammerspoon/init.lua and switch spaces to sync wallpapers to all screens on that space!

  By the way

  I'm using the following wallpapers:

  • General
  • Coding
  • Organise
  • Social

  #project