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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 2025/09/16
Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):
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brew tap <user>/<repo>makes a clone of the repository athttps://github.com/<user>/homebrew-<repo>into$(brew --repository)/Library/Taps. After that,brewwill be able to work with those formulae as if they were in Homebrew’s homebrew/core canonical repository.…
Despite the homebrew repository being a high commit-volume one which makes following it from a clone hard, just did already clone it Read the rest of this entry »
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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 2025/07/31
I try to stay on the default shells of environments as much as possible, especially as that makes life easier when needing to work on an non-customised system.
Apple switched back from an ancient latest GPLv2 version 3.2 of bash (they regard newer GPLv3 as toxic to their revenue stream¹), introduced MIT-license based zsh and introduced a bash nag screen a few years ago forcing users to switch. Suppressing that message reliably is trickier than you might think².
After so many years of bash, I still stumble over things that zsh does differently: [Wayback/Archive] command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Travis and [Wayback/Archive] zaTricky) is a “feature” with a simple workaround for cURL:
This is a zsh feature that prints a percent-and-newline after a command completes if that command does not already include a newline at the end of its output. If zsh did not do this, you would either not ever notice the fact that the command didn’t print a newline – or you’d see zsh’s command prompt not start on the margin and think it was a bug in zsh.
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$ curl http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7 Cisco Systems, Inc% $ curl -w '\n' http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7 Cisco Systems, Inc…
Since the above example now writes a redirect messages (good bye HTTP, welcome HTTPS), and I very much dislike short command-line parameters, here is version with the long form of the [Wayback/Archive] curl -w or --write-out parameter :
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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 2025/05/30
This post covers some topics around one of the retro machines I have. They helped me form some thoughts on additions I might want to add to mine.
The RGBtoHDMI interface converts the “digital” RGB video signal from the BBC Micro or Electron to HDMI compatible with most modern TV/Monitors. The interface comprises a Raspberry Pi Zero and a specially designed Hat containing a small CPLD. Custom firmware on the Raspberry Pi, in conjunction with the CPLD, is able to correctly sample each of the Beeb’s video modes to give a pixel-perfect rendition.
Needs a Raspberry Pi, but looks very interesting.
Back in 2022, someone started doing an amazing thing: reverse engineering and rebuilding a 256-grey/color video card for the Macintosh SE/30 PDS (Processor Direct Slot).
A very interesting start of a long journey with the result that a few people could actually play around with it. Hopefully by now more have been produced, but be aware: this is a hobby of the designer, so unlike some other hardware: do not expect high numbers of these boards to become available.
Long thread in – for now – 14 pages of which I think below are the most important excerpts:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/26
[Wayback/Archive] Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … macOS: LittleSnitch Linux Server: Fail2ban Linux Workstation: etckeeper Windows Workstation: GlassWire Windows Server: Sysmon — What are yours?”
Full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App
Some interesting responses to the original tweet, hence me saving it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16
A while ago I bumped into this video about likely the rarest model in the Apple II series: the Apple IIc Plus:
[Wayback/Archive] Apple IIc Plus – the rarest and fastest Apple II! – YouTube
Returning to one of my favorite subjects – the Apple II – I decide to finally repair a broken Apple IIc Plus gifted to me a little more than a year ago. This machine was the final true hardware revision to the Apple II line, coming in 1988, and the last standalone machine in the line released. It was also the fastest, with a 4Mhz CPU (vs. 1Mhz in most other Apple II’s, and 2.6Mhz in the IIGS). But it was a problematic machine for Apple, with a concept that had been watered down to the point of, well, pointlessness.
The market wanted it even less than it wanted the original IIc (which was my first computer – the one in the thumbnail is my original machine). Still, it is an interesting computer for its accelerated CPU, and its somewhat anachronistic nature at the time of its launch.
It has a cool demo of Flight Simulator II demo mode (which back in those days crashing the plane – demo modes luckily improved from there :) at both 1 Mhz and 4 Mhz. It indeed is not smooth, but a lot faster.
The problem back in those days with acceleration is it would not just improve render speed, but also increase clock time speed. It made most games almost impossible to play in accelerated mode.
If I ever get one, I need to replace the 110V power supply with a 240V/110V auto-switching one as per [Wayback/Archive] IIc + 240v Power:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 