your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

Thank you j. and silby and KM, it worked!

Now I'm going to try caek's trick...

Dr Caek the potion is working...

oh yeah dragging from Finder to Terminal in macOS is great

thanks to the kind souls who patched over my grognard suggestions

32-bit apocalypse is finally upon us

still hoping someone remakes Tangerine and xPad

I’m guessing I have a bunch of VSTs that are 32-bit so no upgrade for me.

I need SwiftUI for my current work so I went all in on Catalina on day one. So far so good - I’d planned well in advance for the switchover. All of my audio software survived and, as expected, my SDR stuff on macports is completely borked. I unsubscribed from Adobe a couple months ago and switched to Affinity. Good riddance.

the new security standards are messing with an un-notarized (?) math app dependent upon calls to other apps like python which themselves expect security authorization, which i am too distracted to fix but i don't need the app for anything anyway.

other than that, fine i guess. the music UI is juuuuust a touch disconcertingly different—can't remember quite how i had things arranged in song browsing before but a bunch of it was not migrated with the rest of my settings, and the new defaults leave a lot of info turned off—and the in-finder ipod syncing seems cruftier though nearly the same operation. migration was mostly frictionless although with the silent switch away from xml library format it seems the thing has become determined to re-download all artwork, and it elected to re-sync devices from scratch, presumably to match something about the change in library format. itunes scripts were not migrated—haven't checked yet to see if maybe they would still operate if moved appropriately, though i suppose their code probably targets itunes by name.

i think something undid my tweaked display color profile, but i'm not messing with it to be sure.

the boot drive has silently been separated from the rest and made read-only, i had some app making a reference to the usually-concealed data partition the other day, but it operated ok. i read that firefox might require full disk authorization for similar reasons, though it hasn't complained to me.

i had a few files separated out as 'relocated items' on my desktop after installation, but the readme the installer dropped in with them did not really do much to explain why they violated security settings—an automator workflow and launch agent among them, which makes sense, but also some sort of font-related junk, who knows what it used to even be for.

I am updating now and expecting everything MacPorts related to be borked. QGIS I am hoping will be ok but that seems to be a pretty vain hope.

Everything went swimmingly, nothing broke managed to recompile Mac ports and then ......

rsync is borked. Bad CPU type in executable which I presume means that I have a 32bit version lurking somewhere

just out of interest, why are you using macports rather than homebrew?

Historical reasons, it does what I need. Also what is Homebrew?

It’s what everyone uses instead of macports and has been for 5 years at least. https://brew.sh/ It’s good! It has a big community, it keeps up with upstream, fixes things quickly etc. If macports works for you maybe don’t worry about.

When I last tried Homebrew I hit a brick wall trying to build some GNUradio plug-ins. Might be fine now, but my head is standardized on a macports.

FWIW, I think the criticisms of Homebrew here are valid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19783624

homebrew is slow as hell and has some surprising dependency chains, it's now my third choice after appified distributions and native installers

like my new work computer setup I installed Vim with MacVim and Python with their installer

yeah i don't use homebrew python

one of the reasons it's slow is this *insane* default setting:

       HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS
              If set, Homebrew will only check for autoupdates once per this seconds interval.
              Default: 60.

i.e. by default, it does something that takes as long as a few minutes, every time you use it, unless you've used it in the last 60 seconds!

the hell

it's insane that the unit of that setting is even seconds!

typical unix innit?

man, the syncing interface is DUMB. if the music app—which you probably have to open separately if you ever do any tweaking of playlist contents to get them to fit as you change their contents—is open then it gets an item for an attached ipod, and it has an 'eject' menu item that doesn't eject, and in the finder if you try to eject after syncing while the music app is open it won't eject because some of its resources are open for the music app!

are there any hoonja-doonjas that enable a focused-writing-style interface in any text field that gets handled by the os, like textedit windows? i mean the kind of thing that fills the screen, darkens other text but highlights the current line, etc., that are popular now.

i can do this with other apps but i like to do it and it'd be nicer if i could do it when i wanted within normal apps.

TextMate used to have an edit in textmate thing, but I don't know if that still works.

https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-goose

i am shook

https://www.caseyliss.com/2019/10/8/brew-bundle
https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

understanding the dependencies here gave me a headache

hmmm I guess that would have been useful back when I was breaking work machines every six months

there's a cool-looking native Gmail client called Mimestream

but it requires Catalina so I guess I'll never get to try it

anybody using Brave?

i tried it ON IPHONE for a while but it feels like multilevel marketing tbh

'volunteer to watch ads in exchange for bitcoin' is certainly a weird USP

Firefox with sync is great these days imo

i like Opera for some reason. i’ve forgotten why.

you like the arts

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

alt-tab between *windows* (not applications) and it knows about full screen and spaces.

Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?

i would never and i will never abandon spectacle, and how dare you for even raising that possibility

*holds spectacle so close*

I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same

you know spectacle, it might be time for you die. goodbye old friend

hey what's up rectangleeeee

I prefer to use option tilde control, what is wrong with you guys?

i just attempted to do that with my left hand and now i'm in the er

no joke though, i did just install rectangle, and i do appreciate it's added options (especially being able to use + and - to make windows just a tad larger or smaller, which feels intuitive because it's similar to the feeling of using the same keys to zoom in/out in other apps)

its

Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?

Alt-tab app not great for me. It'll bring up the window previews and tick through them but doesn't focus when I let go.

I am a savage and use the trackpad gesture to reveal all windows

I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same

Audion is back (ish) https://panic.com/blog/facing-forward/