Today I Found 2025-01-09
Short one today, but wanted to get these sent along before they get lost to the notes pile. Outside of surviving the year, my other top priority for 2025 is adopting GTD and finally getting my tasks/notes under control.
Reading Material
- Scripting with sudo on Mac: Handy tip from the awesome Brett Terpstra on how to store your sudo password in keychain for use with automation scripts.
- What's listening on a port: Using the above sudo+keychain method, Brett shows a handy function for finding the process listening on a specific port on your mac.
- 2024 default apps: Default apps of 2024 from
birchtree.me, found via TLDR newsletter. The bigger find was the trove of people also sharing their default apps for the year as well as how they had changed from year to year. Along with the homelab in review posts, I have decided to start a default apps post once a year as a way to track what I use and have a reason to look at why I still use the tools I do.
Terminal
- bevane/repocheck: A CLI tool that provides an overview of local git repos in a directory with additional detail like last modified date, branch status, etc.