Monthly Shaarli
May, 2018
Run "Google Play Music" as a standalone desktop app. Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music, or stop listening to your favourite song because Chrome is guzzling up all your RAM...
Global mouse gestures for OS X
Jump between characters in Sublime Text 3 without using a mouse at ease
A ponyfill that provides client-side support for CSS custom properties (aka "CSS variables") in legacy browsers
Теперь можно приобрести изделия Арт Кормушки в удобном интернет-магазине производителя!
The CUA exam is designed to gauge knowledge and skills, and not to be a final exam of the CUA courses. Most questions are covered in the courses, and some questions test the ability to apply methodologies and tools to common design challenges.
Sessions is a browser extension for managing your Safari tabs and history.
It can be difficult to keep up with the torrent of new information on the internet. If you have ever found yourself overwhelmed by open tabs but reluctant to abandon them, needing to note a link for later, or simply desiring a mental context switch to a new set of tabs without the distractions of the old ones, Sessions is here to help.
Function argument validation for humans
ShowyEdge displays a color bar at the top edge of the screen depending on the current input source.
Mozilla finally added an environment variable to control this behavior. Unfortunately, configuring this environment variable in a way that applies to the overall graphical system, rather than merely a bash session, is a bit difficult. This used to be done via /etc/launchd.conf, but macOS dropped support for this in v10.10. Fortunately, systemctl offers a .plist file system which can define run programs and define system-wide environment variables at boot, so I published this working .plist file, with instructions for installing and removing it:
https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blob/master/setenv.MOZ_DISABLE_SAFE_MODE_KEY.plist
This is awesome for me, because I like to launch my web browser from anywhere in the GUI with Control+Alt+G via QuickSilver, which of course includes the Alt modifier that Firefox tends to interpret as signaling safe mode.
A remote user testing tool (recommended by Artur Puiste from UX Estonia at Nortal YourDesignWorks)