Firefox for iOS offers an "Enable Night Mode" toggle which not only darkens the Firefox interface, but websites as well.
While not available for desktop OSes yet, you can achieve a similar result with ShadowFox (macOS users can install via Homebrew or MacPorts) and Dark Reader. ShadowFox correctly darkens every element, including ones that other themes can have trouble with, like the address bar, context menu, and history page.
/misc | Oct 23, 2019
Webarchiver "allows you to create Safari .webarchive files from the command line":
webarchiver -url https://tinyapps.org -output tinyapps.webarchive
With a bash function, we can automate creating the filename from the page's title tag and include the URL in the "Where from" metadata:
function dl() {
ADDRESS="$1"
TITLE=`curl -s "$ADDRESS" | grep -o "<title>[^<]*" -m 1 | tail -c+8`
/Applications/network/webarchiver -url "$ADDRESS" -output "$TITLE.webarchive"
xattr -w "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms" "$ADDRESS" "$TITLE.webarchive"
}Add the above to your .bash_profile, reload with source ~/.bash_profile, and use like so:
$ dl https://tinyapps.org/docs/nvme-sanitize.html
Title tags can be tricky to parse correctly, here are some other approaches:
as well as another version wherein you manually supply the title/filename:
function dl() {
ADDRESS="$1"
FILENAME="$2"
/Applications/network/webarchiver -url "$ADDRESS" -output "$FILENAME.webarchive"
xattr -w "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms" "$ADDRESS" "$FILENAME.webarchive"
}calling like so:
$ dl https://tinyapps.org/docs/nvme-sanitize.html "NVMe Sanitize"
Acquire webarchiver 0.9 via homebrew (brew install webarchiver) or MacPorts (sudo port install webarchiver), or build easily from source with Xcode.
Thanks to kenorb for his simple title regex; I only had to add -m 1 after running across a page containing multiple title tags (which apparently isn't that rare, in spite of the spec).
/mac | Oct 21, 2019
If you have the misfortune to be stuck on Catalina, you can restore Mail.app's classic layout via View > "Use Column Layout" and View > uncheck "Show Side Preview"; the previous option (Mail > Preferences > Viewing > Use classic layout) is gone.
/mac | Oct 21, 2019
/windows | Oct 18, 2019
/misc | Oct 09, 2019
Despite the sunny promise of version 26.1's July 24, 2018 release note ("Drive File Stream now guarantees that it won't use more than 20% of the free local disk space when caching files."), Google Drive File Stream cache continues to fill up virtually all available space on many drives.
Heinzelmann's solution of setting ContentCacheMaxKbytes to 100MB is excellent but incomplete; these are the steps I needed to follow in order to resolve the issue:
/misc | Sep 29, 2019
When a G Suite user attempts to sign in to a new device, they may be greeted with:
Verify it's you
This device isn't recognized. For your security, Google wants to make sure it's really you.
Enter a phone number to get a text message with a verification code.
This seems less like additional security and more like phone number harvesting, especially since the user has no preregistered number.
Clicking "Try another way" leads to:
Get a verification code sent to your phone.
Get help
Clicking "Get help" results in:
Account recovery
Enter the last password you remember using with this Google Account
which isn't very helpful, as this user has had the same password since creation.
Entering the password dumps to a dead end:
Couldn't sign you in
Contact your domain admin for help. Learn more
Clicking "Learn more" brings us to a singularly unhelpful page:
Signing in to your work, school, or other group account
Happily, Mario R. linked to the actually relevant G Suite documentation.
In a nutshell, domain admins can disable the phone number requirement, but only for 10 minutes:
Google Admin Console > Users > click username > Security > Login challenge ("Turn off identity questions for 10 minutes after a suspicious attempt to sign in.") > TURN OFF FOR 10 MINS ("Turn off identity questions for 10 minutes after a suspicious attempt to sign in.")
/misc | Sep 26, 2019
Solution to the vexing "Drive File Stream: Can't reach Google Drive" error when attempting to login:
In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\DriveFS, create two new DWORD values, DisableCRLCheck and DirectConnection, assigning value data as 1.
Additional settings and details (including macOS instructions) can be found in Configure Drive File Stream.
(Mad props to Ashley Rowbury for her Job-like patience in securing this veritable Holy Grail.)
/windows | Sep 12, 2019
Yahoo! Pipes "was a web application from Yahoo! that provided a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps."
Replacements:
Huginn "is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server."
IFTTT (IF This Then That) "is the free way to do more with hundreds of the apps and devices you love, including Twitter, Dropbox, Evernote, Nest, Fitbit, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant."
Microsoft Flow - "Create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more"
Pipes - "Re-live Yahoo Pipes. Get and manipulate data from the open web by connecting blocks."
Zapier - "Connect the apps you use everyday to automate your work and be more productive. 1500+ apps and easy integrations - get started in minutes."
/misc | Aug 15, 2019
/mac | Aug 01, 2019