OCRing the live screen was the wrong validator
I built a small nightly QA runner for my personal iOS apps. It builds each app, boots a simulator, installs and launches, takes a screenshot, and OCRs…
Read →TOPIC 0xD5·MACOS
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5 posts tagged macos.
USB 2.0 Billboard means the cable is charge-only
Plugged an ESP32-class dev board into the Mac. Instead of a serial port, macOS showed it as a USB 2.0 BILLBOARD device from VLI Inc., vendor ID 0x2109…
Read →Counting a word across Signal messages with the macOS keychain
I wanted to count how many times I'd used a specific word across all my outgoing Signal messages. Sounded like five lines of SQL. The interesting part…
Read →Decrypting Signal Desktop's database on macOS
I wanted Signal Desktop's message history available for indexing in my personal search. Signal Desktop stores messages in a SQLCipher database, and the…
Read →Use the Tailscale brew formula, not the cask
Quick note to past me: when installing Tailscale on a headless Mac, brew install tailscale (the formula). Not brew install --cask tailscale-app.
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