On our way back from Poland to Croatia, we found this nice place to stay overnight: http://www.albafiorita.com/en/ I am going to post a drone video later, when I’ve sufficient network connectivity. This is an agroturismo, very nicely located between Venice and Trieste. Last time we drove down...
Continue reading...Fix for Safari on Mac: Client Certificate no longer accepted, or slow authentication…
Now this is a very annoying behavior I’ve observed with Safari on Mac and accessing a variety of SAML2 protected sites – while other browsers such as Chrome don’t appear to have that problem. The authentication process may just hang, or also fail with an uninformative cookie error. Ultimately,...
Continue reading...Academic Workflow using Scrivener, BibDesk, Skim, LaTeX, and all the rest of it…
Here is a screen cast that I’ve done on my academic workflow. Have fun:
Continue reading...Make Skim Great Again
Yesterday, I had created a pretty useful workaround for the still fucked up PDFKit in Sierra, which prevents Skim from running. Motivated by Andrea Alberti, I’ve today created a much better version which can be applied in one minute, with one single command, and does not require to keep...
Continue reading...Better Workaround for the still fucked up PDFKit problem on MacOS
So I had written here about the problem with PDFKit under MacOS and shown how to get an deploy an alternative version of PDFKit which fixes the problem. Unfortunately, that makes Preview no longer work with PDF files, which is why I had also supplied there a script for...
Continue reading...Fix fontd being a CPU hog on MacOS
I just saw that there was a runaway fontd process. Fixed it like so: sudo atsutil databases -remove; atsutil server -shutdown Most importantly, this has drastically brought down CPU usage overall. Apparently, it impacts a whole lot of applications.
Continue reading...“What is your main purpose in life right now?”
As part of my DBA, there is what the university calls a “personal development module.” So people ask me questions that are meant to make you think. The question we got over the holiday period was this: “What is your main purpose in life right now?” I don’t know...
Continue reading...Adblock, System-Wide, without Plugins… Pi-Hole!
This is absolutely awesome. I just came across Pi-Hole, a DNS based ad blocker that you can install on a Raspi or just some Linux box you may have around.
Continue reading...UnScrivening
I truly think, I just fell in love with a program. I’m talking about Scrivener. Since I’m doing research / academic writing rather than novel writing, I had not really looked at the program after I had bought it and played a bit with it a couple of years...
Continue reading...Alternative Scenarios to the new MacBook Pro
I think there’s been enough rant about the new MBP. For me personally, I’ve been waiting patiently, and am always open to be convinced. I’m not this time, and have hence explored, and implemented, some alternatives. They may not be useful for you, but if you use a 2013 MacBook Air,...
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