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My Productivity Mac Settings and Apps

My Productivity Mac Settings and Apps Control dark mode per app https://nightowlapp.co/ brew install --cask nightowl Control external monitor brightness with the keyboard - MonitorControl https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl brew install --cask monitorcontrol Raycast Raycast is a free and more powerful Alfred. You can do most things with the keyboard and quickly launch features with Option + Space. It includes many features that other apps charge for. Launch apps quickly Quick dictionary lookup and calculator Built-in clipboard history search Window management like Magnet, with shortcuts to resize and move windows Calendar integration: quickly open Google Meet with the correct account when a meeting starts Write shell/nodejs/applescript to bind shortcuts for quick actions Rich extension store https://www.raycast.com/

Thursday, April 20, 2023 Read
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Inspecting Web Views in macOS

Inspecting Web Views in macOS defaults write NSGlobalDomain WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true defaults write -g WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool YES

Friday, December 2, 2022 Read
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Let Zsh read macOS system proxy settings and set env vars

Let Zsh read macOS system proxy settings and set env vars $ system_profiler SPNetworkDataType # get full network configuration $ networksetup -listallnetworkservices # list all network services $ networksetup -getwebproxy Wi-Fi # get system proxy settings for a specific service $ scutil --proxy # get enabled proxy settings (wrapper for system_profiler)

Monday, January 11, 2021 Read
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Set SSLKEYLOGFILE on MacBook to decrypt HTTPS traffic

Set SSLKEYLOGFILE on MacBook to decrypt HTTPS traffic Create keylogfile mkdir ~/sslkeylogfile && touch ~/sslkeylogfile/keylogfile.log # create keylogfile.log sudo chmod 777 ~/sslkeylogfile/keylogfile.log # change permissions so Chrome can write on startup Configure environment variable vim ~/.zshrc # open config file export SSLKEYLOGFILE=~/sslkeylogfile/keylogfile.log # set environment variable source ~/.zshrc # reload config Configure Wireshark preferences -> Protocols -> TLS Set TLS debug file to record decryption logs Set (Pre)-Master-Secret log filename to the absolute path of keylogfile.log Start Chrome from terminal

Friday, November 6, 2020 Read