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Authoring Markdown externally and pasting the 'pretty' output into Slack (on Mac) (2 mins read).

How to use copy the rendered representation of Markdown into a rich-text form into Slack, on Mac.

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:20 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #slack #markdown #mac.

Getting access to rich-text data from the clipboard (on Mac) (1 mins read).

How to retrieve rich-text output from the clipboard.

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:00 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #mac #command-line.

Liked https://stackoverflow.com/a/65601197 .

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:30 by Jamie Tanna . #mac #java.

Liked Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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macOS comes with a lot of built-in utilities. Here's a list of some that I find interesting.

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:41 by Jamie Tanna . #mac.

Getting symlinks to work with a git clone on Mac (2 mins read).

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How to restore symlinks in a previously cloned repository, where core.symlinks=false.

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:01 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #mac.

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Today, my new 13-inch MacBook Pro arrived! I was super excited to get it out of the box and set it up. This thing is fast! I am already very...

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:23 by Jamie Tanna . #mac #homebrew.

Liked https://www.swyx.io/running-docker-without-docker-desktop/ .

Sat, 28 May 2022 20:09 by Jamie Tanna . #docker #mac.

Installing Nokogiri on an M1 Mac (1 mins read).

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How to get Nokogiri building on an M1 Mac, when using Bundler.

Sun, 01 May 2022 14:39 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #mac #ruby.

Removing 'smart' quotes from a file, on the command-line (2 mins read).

A one-liner with sed to replace 'smart' quotes with regular quotes.

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:57 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #command-line #mac #linux.

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TIL MacOS has a built-in speed test tool.
Luke Holder (@lukeholder)Fri, 08 Apr 2022 01:39 +0000

Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #command-line #mac.

Bookmarked https://github.com/stenh0use/docker-machine-for-mac .

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:18 by Jamie Tanna . #docker #mac.

Liked https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-idea-with-jdk17-for-better-render-performance/ .

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 09:58 by Jamie Tanna . #intellij #java #mac.

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Notch? No problem.
Marc Edwards (@marcedwards)Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:20 +0000

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 22:16 by Jamie Tanna . #mac #apple.

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Using popular things is sucky. When I have an issue with macOS or Windows, search results are dominated by SEO'd junk articles with little to no information. When I have an issue with Linux, search results are usually awesome and get me directly to the juicy information.
Maddison Hellstrom (@HellsMaddy)Wed, 12 May 2021 21:41 +0000

Tue, 18 May 2021 16:27 by Jamie Tanna . #linux #windows #mac.

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MacOS devs: please add .DS_Store to your .gitignore_global please
shelby spees is staying home 😷 (@shelbyspees)Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:53 +0000

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:40 by Jamie Tanna . #git #mac.

Liked https://cfenollosa.com/blog/fed-up-with-the-mac-i-spent-six-months-with-a-linux-laptop-the-grass-is-not-greener-on-the-other-side.html .

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:03 by Jamie Tanna . #linux #mac.

Liked https://meetingbar.onrender.com/ .

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:23 by Jamie Tanna . #mac #remote-work.

Liked https://www.paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-man-thought-opening-txt-file-is.html?m=1 .

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 14:28 by Jamie Tanna . #security #mac.

Liked https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/things-i-cant-do-on-macos-which-i-can-do-on-ubuntu/ .

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:34 by Jamie Tanna . #linux #mac.

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Am I the only one who can't use the macOS Finder? Where is the filepath editor in the navbar? What directory am I in? How do I go up a directory? How do I go to my home directory? If I'm forced to use Finder, I literally have to `open path/to/dir`
Jim Fisher (@MrJamesFisher)Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:13 +0000

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:02 by Jamie Tanna . #mac.

Being a Bad POSIX Citizen (2 mins read).

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Owning up to using GNU coreutils, even on BSDs, because I'm lazy.

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:12 by Jamie Tanna . #linux #posix #bsd #mac.

Bookmarked https://www.crystae.net/posts/2019/11/08/two-shebang-papercuts/ .

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:41 by Jamie Tanna . #linux #mac #unix #command-line.

Bookmarked https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-years/ .

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:18 by Jamie Tanna . #mac #windows.

Bookmarked https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html .

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 14:04 by Jamie Tanna . #ubuntu #linux #mac.

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