Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/24
When I have an external monitor connected to my 2015 era Retina MacBook Pro machines, I wanted some apps to appear on the laptop screen and others on the external one.
That was harder than I hoped for as no single solution works in all cases.
What I do now is to make sure the icon bar is on the monitor where I want applications to open. Not perfect, but works for most cases.
Here are some links that helped me:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/10
TL;DR: it is impossible on a Mac to accurately measure power usage by attached USB devices. Only a general indication is possible, but it is unreliable.
[Wayback/Archive] How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different
Related: [Wayback/Archive] View energy consumption in Activity Monitor on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
Via: [Wayback/Archive] macos view usb power usage – Google Search
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/07
On my M1 MacBook, somehow Spotlight started to fail returning some indexed files (especially recently added ones would not show up or it would take a very long while for some of them to show up).
So I revisited mdutil and related commands while writing a comment on the YouTube movie [Wayback/Archive] How To Rebuild the Spotlight Index on Your Mac – YouTube which since then vanished, but luckily I saved it and here I amended it with formatting:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/03
Written a while ago, but forgot to schedule this in the blog queue.
This is in reverse chronological order and only for the models I have, had, or considered buying.
| Model | Height | Width | Depth | Weight1 | Weight2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2023) | 0.66 inch (1.68 cm) | 14.01 inches (35.57 cm) | 9.77 inches (24.81 cm) | (M2 Pro): 4.7 pounds (2.15 kg) | (M2 Max): 4.8 pounds (2.16 kg) |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) | 0.66 inch (1.68 cm) | 14.01 inches (35.57 cm) | 9.77 inches (24.81 cm) | (M1 Pro): 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) | (M1 Max): 4.8 pounds (2.2 kg) |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) | 0.71 inch (1.8 cm) | 14.13 inches (35.89 cm) | 9.73 inches (24.71 cm) | 4.49 pounds (2.04 kg) | |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2023) | 0.61 inch (1.55 cm) | 12.31 inches (31.26 cm) | 8.71 inches (22.12 cm) | (M2 Pro): 3.5 pounds (1.60 kg) | (M2 Max): 3.6 pounds (1.63 kg) |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) | 0.61 inch (1.55 cm) | 12.31 inches (31.26 cm) | 8.71 inches (22.12 cm) | 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg) | |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) | 0.71 inch (1.8 cm) | 12.35 inches (31.4 cm) | 8.62 inches (21.9 cm) | 3.48 pounds (1.58 kg) | |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Air (Mid 2009) | 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm) | 12.8 inches (32.5 cm) | 8.94 inches (22.7 cm) | 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg) |
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.
If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08
On my list of things to try: [Wayback/Archive] Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.
Goal is to see if the iPad can function as a larger touchpad to assist drawing on my MacBook.
Links:
Via:
Query: [Wayback/Archive] use ipad as mouse – Google Suche
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13
On my research list: running Anrdoid apps on Apple Silicon.
I wonder if using the Anrdoid Emulator from Android Studio the only straightforward option.
Links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/08
Having used less for 40+ years now, I wonder how moar measures up to it: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
Features I at least expect are in [Wayback/Archive] less: display the contents of a file in a terminal | less Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Johan Walles recently commenting on [Wayback/Archive] linux – How can I have less automatically decompress xz files like it did with gz files on my old SUSE distro? – Super User.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18
Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton
Via
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/14
Now that I have had an Apple silicon for a while, which has enough cores to perform parallel work, this is how I calculated a bunch of hashed from a lot of large files:
find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 md5 -rfind . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 1find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 256I contemplated about using GNU parallel, but that is not installed by default on MacOS and I was already familiar with xargs.
Argument meanings can be found at these locations:
Related:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 