Tag: macOS
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Netbeans crashing on macOS
For the past few years & months, Netbeans (now version 20) has been really struggling to keep up with the type of work that I most frequently use it for (helping to maintain & improve WordPress and a few hundred plugins here or there) and it has really been a bummer because no matter how…
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Low framerate in Safari on M1 Mac
I recently noticed that animations in Safari were stuttering pretty badly on my M1 powered 2020 MacBook Air, and dove in to figure out why. I’m a web developer, so I went to work writing a small bit of vanilla JavaScript to monitor requestAnimationFrame which is the API that the window object uses to “paint”…
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PHP is not recommended
The latest version of macOS makes it pretty clear how Apple feels about open web technologies that aren’t JavaScript:
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macOS Disk Utility “Operation cancelled”
When trying to use Disk Utility to make a backup of one of my Raspberry Pi’s, I was repeatedly seeing an error that was causing my backup to fail. Operation cancelled Disk Utility Not particularly helpful. For me, the fix involved setting the Disk Utility application to have Full Disk Access inside macOS System Preferences,…
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OS X Archive Utility Hanging
Recently, my Archive Utility started hanging every once in a while, when trying to open pretty small ZIP files (often under 1 MB.) The answer for me is annoying, but simple: Kill the appleeventsd process.
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iTether Download Link
If you’re a user of the old iTether app like I am, and you need to re-download the OS X app, here’s the original download url. http://tether.com/i/Tether-iPhone.dmg Took me a while to find it again since they switched to the reverse proxy HTML5 method.
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PHPUnit, MAMP Pro 2.0, Netbeans 7.1, OS X
At the time of this writing, MAMP Pro 2.0.5 comes with a corrupted pear.conf file for PHP version 5.3.6, so I had to do some digging to install PHPUnit. You should be able to open up terminal and safely run the following commands to get PHPUnit installed and working correctly: rm /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf/pear.conf /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/pear channel-update pear.php.net…