I was watching a show recently when someone used the phrase "soup to nuts". And even though I understood what it meant — everything from beginning to end — I suddenly realized I had no idea why it meant that.
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I’ve been using macOS for years, but only today learned that Command + backtick lets you switch between windows within the same app. Add Shift to go the other direction.
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Recently, I set up a new Mac and wanted to be more intentional about managing installations, especially with Node packages. Having faced headaches from global dependency conflicts before, particularly when developing Ghost themes for this blog, I aimed to keep my system clean and conflicts minimal.
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Several years back, I set up AdGuard Home primarily to encrypt my DNS traffic. Along the way, I realized that blocking all those trackers also meant I stopped seeing most ads. Lately, though, more and more websites are catching on and throwing up “please disable your ad blocker” messages.
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Recently, I made a small change in AdGuard Home’s DNS settings that might have resolved an issue impacting Safari on macOS. I switched from making single DNS requests to parallel requests. Since then, I haven’t encountered this message: “This webpage reloaded because a problem occurred.”
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