creating links: hard vs. symbolic

2020-03-24

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~4 min read

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741 words

Recently, I wrote about some less than intuitive directory placement with respect to iCloud. While an alias is one way to solve this issue…

apple: making things simple and icloud

2020-03-23

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~1 min read

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90 words

One thing Apple does very well is making products that “just work.” One thing Apple makes extraordinarily difficult is tweaking those…

seeing progress

2020-03-22

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~1 min read

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171 words

The longer you do something, the more you grow and get better, the harder it can be to see progress. While I believe the above to be…

mocking async functions with waitfor

2020-03-21

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~3 min read

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480 words

Frequently, I find myself needing to mock out (or fake) an asynchronous call to test my API I’m developing. I hate having to remember the…

error handling: git cannot lock ref: is at x, but expected y

2020-03-20

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~2 min read

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231 words

Continuing my catalog of errors (and how to resolve them), yesterday offered a brand new one for me. I was trying to push some local…

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