iCloud Drive is available as a folder in the Finder on macOS Yosemite (10.10) and later. However, iCloud Drive doesn't act like a normal Finder folder, which is problematic when you want to work with iCloud Drive in the Terminal app. This article explains how to access your iCloud Drive folder in the terminal.
This article explains how to make macOS automatically add the file extension when it saves screenshots.
OmniGraffle is a superb piece of vector-diagram drawing software. It's easy to create complex, multi-layered diagrams very quickly in OmniGraffle. However, it did take me a while to work out how to produce curved line joints that connect objects. I'll show you how to do it in this article.
When creating my Add-on Stats dashboard widget, I couldn't find an online tutorial for creating a widget bar icon. Apple's Designing Widgets page lists some basic information about the dimensions of the icon's contents and the size and orientation of the icon's drop shadow, but nothing about the dimensions of the icon itself or how to create the curved glass effect used by most other icons on the widget bar. After some trial and error, I developed the following tutorial for creating widget bar icons.
This article explains how to zoom and center a Leaflet JavaScript map on a single marker.
In this article, I'll explain how to implement the structure and lifecycle of control and layer plugins for the Leaflet JavaScript mapping library.
This article explains how to use D3 to perform a set of tasks asynchronously and wait until those tasks have been completed before performing another task.
This article describes the method I used to get better results from optical character recognition (OCR) software when scanning a report printed on a dot-matrix printer.
When headings marked-up with the h1, h2, ... h6 HTML tags are too long to fit on a single line, web browsers wrap the trailing words onto the next line. When the second line of the heading contains two or more words, this layout looks fine. However, when the second line contains just a single word, this layout is ugly-to my eye at least.
In this article I'll teach you a technique I use when programming that will make your code read more like English. Instead of writing comments that describe what a method does, you express those comments in the way you name your methods and in the way you compose your method calls.
This article explains why you should avoid using the version of Ruby bundled with macOS and should instead install your own version of Ruby with RVM, the Ruby Version Manager.
This article explains how to overcome some common reasons your code might be failing to connect to the Twitter API.