Jason Cosper

Tag: macintosh

  • A spot of Homebrew

    Starting a few days ago, whenever I’d run a Homebrew update, the whole process would end with this warning message:

    Warning: Cask handbrake was renamed to handbrake-app.

    I started out by trying to uninstall HandBrake in Homebrew before using the new package name (handbrake-app) to reinstall it.

    That didn’t work tho. The warning persisted.

    Then, I tried using the zap flag during the uninstall and running a cleanup before reinstalling it.

    % brew uninstall --cask --zap handbrake-app
==> Backing App 'HandBrake.app' up to '/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/handbrake-app/1.9.2/HandBrake.app'
==> Removing App '/Applications/HandBrake.app'
==> Dispatching zap stanza
==> Trashing files:
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/fr.handbrake.handbrake.sfl*
~/Library/Application Support/HandBrake
~/Library/Caches/fr.handbrake.HandBrake
~/Library/Preferences/fr.handbrake.HandBrake.plist
~/Library/Saved Application State/fr.handbrake.HandBrake.savedState
==> Removing all staged versions of Cask 'handbrake-app'

% brew cleanup
==> Updating Homebrew...
Already up-to-date.
Warning: Cask handbrake was renamed to handbrake-app.

    No joy in Mudville! HandBrake had been fully uninstalled from my system… But its warning was still taunting me from beyond the grave.

    I was about to walk away from computers as a career, but then I remembered that the prune flag in brew cleanup exists:

    % brew cleanup --prune=all

    Running that, which clears Homebrew’s entire cache, and reinstalling HandBrake — making sure to use its new package name — fixed me right up.

  • Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, 04.27.20

    This content was imported from gomi no sensei, a project I briefly did during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of maintaining yet another WordPress install, I’ve decided to shove this content into the everything bucket that is my long running personal blog. 🥴

    I wish weekends felt more like weekends and less like days where I’m not financially obligated to sit at my computer. I need something relaxing, but everything rn is stressful and weird.

    Usually, when I’m feeling stressed, I take a few days off, pack the dogs and Sarah into the Jeep, and head out to Palm Springs or Pismo Beach. Don’t really have that luxury right now.

    I guess I need to upend my routine or something. 🤔

    Mini vMac 3DS

    The total lack of documentation on the GitHub page for this project is very much a “You’re on your own, bro.” sort of statement. But if you can get it to work — and people have — you can run System 7 on a 3DS. 😍

    GoldenHour

    A macOS app that adds a translucent, color temperature adjustable overlay on your screen.

    Pretty handy! Especially since all of the key lights that are worth a shit are sold out rn. (via)

    Baphomet Pee-wee Herman Sticker

    I mean, it’s kind of all right there in the title, isn’t it? (via)

    The Cool Quarantine, Episode 2

    I missed this when it dropped last week, but Henry Rollins is back with another 4 hours of great freeform radio.

    “Expert Twitter” Only Goes So Far

    Twitter was optimized for links and short musings. It’s not well suited for complex discussions or nuanced analyses. As a result, the feeds of these newly emerged pandemic experts are often a messy jumble of re-ups, unrolled threads, and screenshot excerpts of articles. We can do better.

    TL;DR: Get a blog.

    I’ve already got one, so I’m sure you can understand how I might be bullish about them… 🤣

    Five is good for today, right?

    Until next time, friends!