Life of developer

I applied pretty cool trick for Alfred where I sync settings and workflows between few devices

If you want to gain some disk space just run

If you’re getting above error 

Usage Error: The nearest package directory The solution for ” Usage Error: The nearest package directory ” can be found here. 

The following code will assist you in solving the problem. solution 

touch yarn.lock

If you install stuff from source it is always good practice to validate if downloaded file checksum is the one the you expected it to be.

 Example how to validate checksum for openssl source file

echo "f89199be8b23ca45fc7cb9f1d8d3ee67312318286ad030f5316aca6462db6c96 openssl-1.1.1m.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check 

I always felt that running flake8 manually is a mistake. I decided to write simple script which does that for me before each commit

.git/hooks/pre-commit

and the content

#!/bin/sh

echo "Running flake8 on made changes..."

CURRENT_DIR=`pwd` PROJECT_DIR=`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`

cd $PROJECT_DIR

git diff --name-status | awk '{print $2}' | grep -E ".*.py$" | xargs flake8

Recently I had this annoying error

 File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/distutils/command/install.py", line 248, in finalize_options    "must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both") distutils.errors.DistutilsOptionError: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both

When I was trying to install pandas in local folder, ie.

pip3 install -t ./ pandas

Fear not! It is pretty easy to fix this, just execute below cmd and live happy.

This thing was driving me nuts for about few days. Why the hell my iMessage on Mac suddenly broke.

I had this image in front of my face for all messages that i tried to send. Solution was...so easy. Just follow those steps.

Open Keychain Access either through the utilities folder or Spotlight Search

Navigate to the File menu and select “Lock Keychain ‘Login'”

Navigate to the File menu again and select “Unlock Keychain ‘Login'”

You’ll be asked to enter your Mac password

I have few Apple devices. I did an experiment. I’e been using Safari as my main browser for pretty long time. Reason being? Pretty awesome few features in Apple eco system

✔ having page opened in Mac and switch to iOS - continue seamlessly reading without doing anything extra

✔ saving and sharing passwords between iOS and OSX - another nice seamless experience

So by having lots of websites where I must use password validations for like every day work I was using this Safari/iOS/OSX feature for quite a while. Until I decided to try Chrome for some time. I thought to myself - why not? Everybody’s using Chrome nowadays.

The first thing that killed my effort was...passwords. Well I use 1password app so no big deal, I guess. I could live with that. 

Unfortunately using Chrome on OSX does not give you seamless experience when switching to iOS. Why? Because of simple fact. Apple and iOS restrictions :(

Try to get an email or any message in iOS which contains a link. Click it... it will always redirect you to...Safari and guess what - there is no way to change it.

Then you have to take that link and open it in Chrome in your iOS to keep history between iOS Chrome and OSX? No, no, no. Thank you sir.

That is really annoying. Even if there is a way to sync histories, cookies and stuff between Chrome and Safari (mobile + desktop)i. Still iOS will not allow you to use Chrome as default browser so all the goodies from Google Chrome eco system will not be working same way as they do in Android,

Here I had found solution in the vast space of Internet. I hope that helps some of you. For me was a life saver. Annoying bug!

I had the same issue today. Very frustrating! There was a popup screen that came up and I inadvertently clicked deny which didn’t allow the Logitech Options Daemon to run. Once i enabled it and restarted my computer the mouse scrolling function worked again.

On your Mac…Go to

1) Click on the apple icon on the top left corner of the screen

2) Select System Preferences

3) Click Security & Privacy

4) Click Privacy tab

5) Click on Accessibility on the left hand side

6) Click on Logitech Options Daemon

(if it’s greyed out it’s because you have it locked…click on the pad lock on the bottom right of the little window to unlock it).

In my last post I mentioned that I fixed few broken CherryMX keys. Looks like numbers of hours or just too much dust killed them. Anyway. I love my keyboard and the one that I fixed is Das Keyboard

Features include:

– Designed for Mac compatibility – Two-port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed hub – Anodized aluminium top panel – Full n-key rollover – Mechanical key switches with gold contacts – UV hard coat-protected key caps to prevent fading