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Get Rid of Bartender and Other Menu Bar Apps

Since having a notch on my MacBook, I cannot fit all the icons in my menu bar. I’ve tried heaps of apps to make it …

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Apr 2026
1 min

On Agentic AI and reusing passwords

However, whenever a customer went beyond the rigid scripts, the chat had to be routed to a person, only to reset the …

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Dec 2025
1 min

Most Popular LinkedIn Post

I just written what has been, to date, my most popular LinkedIn post. I did not expect it when writing it–it is …

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Nov 2025
1 min

Trust local caddy certificates on macOS

Up to today, I’ve been bothered by having local https websites served by Caddy, whose certificates were not …

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Jun 2024
1 min

Mark Apple Music song as favorite in the background

I often listen to Apple Music in the background and sometimes I casually listen to a song I want to add to my favorites. …

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Jan 2024
1 min

Git patch workflow

This is totally a note for my future self. Sometimes when working with git I find myself having to create a patch, …

gitpatchprogrammingtechnologytutorialversion control
Jun 2018
1 min

No system holding your private information is failing

Yesterday somebody called my wife. She didn’t pick up. Today (Saturday), upon picking up, the voice on the other …

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Feb 2017
3 min

Export to BibTeX from Papers (2)

If you always wanted to automate the tedious process of exporting your collection of papers in Papers to BibTeX …

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May 2012
1 min

Marked

A new shiny app by Brett Terpstra, creator of NValt. Only available at the App Store. I’ve been using it since it …

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Jul 2011
1 min

Growl.log and Perl

I really like Growl. It’s the kind of thing that ‘just works’, and they do it nicely. It tells me when …

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Apr 2011
2 min

Illustrator and psfrag

If you have problems with Illustrator and PSfrag, that’s probably because you can’t have psfrag replace tags …

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Nov 2010
1 min

Speaking of emails

If you work a lot with emails, then you should watch (or hear) this talk by Merlin Mann.

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Feb 2010
1 min

Web of Science, Papers and Leiden University

To use Leiden ezproxy with Leiden university you have to do the following. Open with Textedit.app the file …

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Jul 2009
1 min

X11 and System Fonts in Mac Os X

If you also have experienced some problem accessing fonts presents in /System/Library/Fonts with X11 applications (like …

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Jul 2009
1 min