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Home • RSS tl; dr by Alex Popescu t(hink) l(earn); d(iscover) r(eason) May 24, 2020 Spotlight, symlinks, and aliases Today I learned that Spotlight doesn’t consider symlinks; or at least in the context of having an application in /Applications as a symlink 1 . But Spotlight will recognize an alias. When looking it up through Spotlight, you’ll find it in the Others section of the results and not applications. A case of something, even if not perfect, is better than nothing . in my case, I have Emacs and MacVim built or installed under /usr/local ↩ ※ January 1, 2020 » How much leisure time would you like to have? ⁜ From an article published by The Atlantic : The paper, which analyzed data covering about 35,000 Americans, found that employed people’s ratings of their satisfaction with life peaked when they had in the neighborhood of two and a half hours of free time a day. For people who didn’t work, the optimal amount was four hours and 45 minutes. ⁜ January 1, 2020 Another password manager for macOS and iOS: Secrets I just found another password manager for macOS and iOS: Secrets . Among the features: no subscription, unlock with Touch ID, browser extensions with auto fill. I haven’t used it as for the time I’m sticking with Myki. But it’s good to have yet another no subscription alternative. ※ December 30, 2019 How to set a Go variable at compile time using linker flags Josh Roppo in Setting Go(1.5) variables at compile time for Versioning : Injecting the Git Hash, Tag, date, build system, and version attributes into variables of a Golang binary can be very useful to validate that your build process is functioning correctly. Bookmarking this article here as I’ve found this extremely useful. I was asking myself this question earlier today and found this link from an issue opened against the Go repo . The mechanism involves using linker flags to set variables: go [build|install] -ldflags "-X main.VariableInMain=VALUE" ※ December 29, 2019 » Bitwarden password manager: reasonably polished, open source, audited by 3rd parties, and inexpensive ⁜ Jack Baty in Bitwarden : But how well does it work? Well, after only a couple of days of testing I’ve decided it’s worth a decent attempt to make the switch to Bitwarden. It’s reasonably polished, open source, audited by 3rd parties, and inexpensive. It feels just a tiny bit nerdy, which, in my experience, means that when features are added they’re more likely to address actual user needs. Bitwarden and Myki are the two password managers that got my attention too since starting to look for a replacement for 1Password. I am currently using Myki, primarily because it proposes a different model for synchronization that doesn’t involve the company servers storing customer data. I also have Bitwarder installed and Bitwarden’s extensions proved to be working perfectly so far. ⁜ « Older Contact me: Twitter or Mail Theme by Alex Popescu and inspired by Alasdair Monk's Newsies...