Cisco Umbrella can block domains by returning fake DNS answers, which makes a site look down even though it works elsewhere. If you only need access to a few domains, bypass the DNS layer for those domains on macOS. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This guide is for educational purposes. Bypassing corporate security controls may violate your company’s IT policies. Use responsibly and at your own risk. ...
Mail popped up an alert: “Mail cannot save information about your mailboxes because there isn’t enough space in your home folder.” My first two suspects in these situations are always Xcode junk or a full Trash. I opened OmniDiskSweeper and started scanning. I love it because there is no visual fluff. You scan, you delete, you move on. I cleaned up old runtimes, old Xcodes, and VM images. That saved ~70 GB. ...
A dependency mirror refers to an alternate source location which exactly replicates the contents of the original source. [1] I often end up in the same situation: I need to tweak an internal package that a project depends on. The usual options are: Drag and drop the repo into Xcode (Xcode replaces the remote dependency with the local copy) Change Package.swift to a local path dependency Both work, but I prefer a CLI-only workflow. Turns out SPM has a cleaner alternative: dependency mirroring! ...
tl;dr Instant Platinum v0.1.0 released! 🚀 Instant Platinum is an unofficial client for Fitness Platinum. The audience is tiny: a gym franchise in Kraków and Katowice, Poland. That’s fine. This is mostly for me. I can’t stand the official app. It’s not terrible, but it’s bloated with things I don’t care about: booking classes, managing goals, shopping (??). I just want to see my entry QR code as soon as I open the app. Today it takes three taps. Not awful, but not great. ...
Platinum Pulse is a web app that aggregates live occupancy data for Fitness Platinum clubs. Small disclaimer: the audience here is tiny. Fitness Platinum is a gym franchise in Kraków and Katowice, Poland. I recently built a tiny iOS app to instantly generate the gym QR codes I need. “Doesn’t your gym have an official iOS app?” It does. It’s just bloated with things I don’t use: booking classes, setting goals, shopping (why?), and it takes way too many taps to reach the only feature I care about. ...
Problem? I wanted to get notified about new openings as soon as they come up. Even though I’m only interested in a handful of companies, manually checking each careers page gets boring pretty quickly. I’m aware there are some paid tools that solve this exact problem (hello Fluxguard, Versionista), but I’m too cheap for that. In this short tutorial, we’ll set up monitoring using a self-hosted instance of Changedetection.io to solve this problem. ...
You have a website built with Hugo hosted on CloudFlare Pages and you want to integrate Decap CMS to it? Here’s how. At the end of this article you’ll be able to add posts to your website and manage existing ones using a Decap admin panel on your website. Prerequisites Your website is built using Hugo Your website is hosted using CloudFlare pages You have a GitHub account (we’ll use it for OAuth authentication) How Creating an OAuth App in GitHub Go to Developer Settings OAuth Apps New OAuth App Fill out application name, Homepage URL and Authorization callback URL as follows ...
A few months back I migrated my notes from Bear Notes to Obsidian. The switch has been great - I love what Obsidian offers. One feature I missed dearly from Bear Notes was the ability to quickly navigate between notes using up/down arrow keys. This couldn’t be replicated using Obsidian hotkeys or plugins, and other people were missing this feature too. Turns out Obsidian just added this in version 1.9.10! ...
Need your Alfred snippets on iPhone and iPad? Alfred Snippet Converter now supports zip archives, drag & drop, and batch conversion of multiple collections. What’s New Zip Archive Support - Convert collections directly after exporting from Alfred without manual extraction. Drag & Drop - Simply drag your collection files onto the app window. Batch Processing - Convert all your Alfred snippet collections in one operation. The tool converts Alfred snippets into macOS text replacements, which sync across all your Apple devices via iCloud. Read the full setup guide in Alfred Snippets on iOS. ...
Seeing a red dot with “401 unauthorized” status for Plex in your Homarr dashboard, even though your Plex server runs perfectly fine? The issue is likely your URL format. Instead of using the standard IP:PORT format like other containers, Plex requires the full web interface path. The Fix Change your Plex internal address from: 192.168.1.100:32400 To: 192.168.1.100:32400/web/index.html#!/ Why This Path is Required Plex’s web interface uses a single-page application architecture with hash-based routing. The /web/index.html#!/ path serves as the entry point to the bundled Plex Web App. This specific URL structure is how Plex handles authentication and routing for external integrations like Homarr. ...
When using Cursor’s Vim plugin on macOS, you might notice that holding down keys like j or k for navigation doesn’t repeat as expected. Instead of continuous movement, the system shows accent character options or simply doesn’t repeat at all. This happens because macOS has “Press and Hold” enabled by default, which interferes with Vim’s key repeat functionality. The Fix Run this command in Terminal to disable Press and Hold specifically for Cursor: ...
I’ve been running various Docker containers on my Synology NAS for years, and while Tailscale has been excellent for accessing the NAS itself remotely, I found myself frustrated by one specific limitation: I could only access my Docker containers by their LAN IP addresses when I was actually connected to my home network. When I was away from home, even though I could reach my Synology via Tailscale address or Magic DNS, trying to access something like 192.168.1.144:7878 for Radarr would just time out. ...
Setting up a reverse proxy on your Synology NAS can dramatically improve how you access your Docker containers. Instead of remembering ports for each service, you can use clean subdomains like plex.yourdomain.com or radarr.yourdomain.com. What’s Caddy? Caddy is a modern, open-source web server that excels at reverse proxying. It’s lightweight, easy to configure, and handles HTTPS automatically. What sets it apart is its human-readable configuration format and automatic certificate management capabilities. ...
A few months ago, I decided to try Xcode’s new buildable folders feature in my project. However, right after converting all my groups to folders, I discovered that CocoaPods had stopped working. Attempting to install project dependencies resulted in the following error: $ pod install ❌ ArgumentError - [Xcodeproj] Unable to find compatibility version string for object version `70`. At the time, I updated CocoaPods to the latest version, confirmed my project format was set to the latest Xcode version (16.3), and tried again. When the issue persisted, I assumed CocoaPods was incompatible with buildable folders and that I would need to migrate to Swift Package Manager (SPM) to use them. This conclusion seemed to be confirmed by several closed GitHub issues where the suggested workaround was to manually convert folders back to groups. ...
MeTube is a web GUI for youtube-dl, a command-line tool for downloading videos from YouTube and several hundred other sites. My goal for this project was to set up automation for downloading YouTube videos directly to my Plex library. The primary reason is that I can’t trust myself with YouTube Shorts. Once I open YouTube, I’m likely to spend at least a few minutes browsing through them. The simplest solution was to add friction to the process: I removed the YouTube app from all my devices and blocked the domain using my local DNS server. ...
I recently needed to add Swift Package Manager support to a legacy package that one of my projects was using. The package was originally distributed with CocoaPods. The primary reason for migrating from CocoaPods to SPM is that CocoaPods entered maintenance mode a few months ago. Removing it will future-proof our projects and allow us to use the latest features, such as the buildable folders introduced in Xcode 16. Assumptions Since this was an internal package, I did not need to maintain CocoaPods support. The goal was to replace it entirely with SPM. It is certainly possible to keep both, but that would require some additional work. The project I was working on is considered legacy; no one has touched it in about six years. Once this task is complete, I hope no one will need to update it for another half-dozen years. This allowed me to take some shortcuts, like integrating a third-party dependency directly into the codebase instead of spending time updating it to the latest version. All internal dependencies of your framework already support SPM. With that said, let’s get started. ...
Note: This article was originally published 05/2025. Last update 08/2025. Changes: Added sockpuppetbrowser to enable Playwright Chromium/Javascript fetch method Changedetection.io is a powerful open-source tool that monitors websites for changes. It’s incredibly useful for tracking updates on pages that don’t offer their own notification systems. This guide will walk you through setting it up on your Synology NAS using Docker Compose. Prerequisites Docker installed on your system by following the TrashGuides setup for Synology. Installation Append this configuration to your docker-compose.yml file. If you’ve followed the guide mentioned above, this file should be located in your Docker application data directory (e.g., /volume1/docker/appdata). ...
Prerequisites Before you start, you should have qBittorrent up and running using this guide. Implementation If you’ve used the guide linked above, the qBittorrent container is already running. There are two configuration files that we’ll need to edit: .env and docker-compose.yml. .env Make sure the LAN_NETWORK variable is set properly. If you haven’t modified it after the initial setup, it should be set to 192.168.x.0/24. Update it so that your Synology’s LAN IP is within the address range. Example: since my Synology’s LAN IP address is 192.168.1.110, I’ve replaced x with 1: 192.168.1.0/24. ...
I’ve mostly moved away from using Objective-C over the years. While it still appears in some of the projects I work on, it’s been quite some time since I last had to work on a feature written entirely in Objective-C. These days, I typically encounter it when integrating a new feature written in Swift into an older codebase. Recently, however, I needed to brush up on Objective-C for a job I was interviewing for. ...
My current project has a single target and multiple schemes. Each scheme represents the same app for different countries/regions. It’s essentially the same application with minor adjustments made for each of the supported jurisdictions. In Xcode projects, you define supported languages at the project level (not scheme level). Because of this structure, each app variant inherits the same language settings. My task was to force each app variant to support only the language for the region it was released in. The French app should only support French, no matter what the user’s device language is set to, and so on. This decision was made because large portions of the app are web-based and only supported a single language. ...
Update: 26/03/25 It looks like Objective-C is still an option in the default iOS project template. You can access it after setting the Interface to “Storyboard”. I hadn’t realized these dropdown menus were interconnected. All credit goes to Douglas for spotting this! tl;dr use macOS → Application → Game or Command Line Tool Recently I wanted to refresh my memory on Objective-C. My first thought was to open Xcode, create a new project with language set to Objective-C and play with it. To my surprise, none of the iOS Application project templates allow you to select any other language than Swift. ...
I’ve noticed that the SwiftLint plugin can add up to 30 seconds to incremental build times. In my case, it nearly doubled the average incremental build time! Since there’s no straightforward way to disable SwiftLint across all local packages in a project, I decided on the simplest solution: automating the process of temporarily commenting out SwiftLint from the dependencies list. In my projects, to ensure the SwiftLint plugin is automatically added to all package targets, I append the following code to each Swift package manifest: ...
Homarr creates a customizable browser homepage that lets you manage and interact with Docker containers running on your homeserver. Here’s my dashboard setup: Prerequisites Docker installed on your system (follow this Synology setup guide) Installation Append this configuration to your docker-compose.yml file: homarr: container_name: homarr image: ghcr.io/ajnart/homarr:latest restart: unless-stopped logging: driver: json-file options: max-file: ${DOCKERLOGGING_MAXFILE} max-size: ${DOCKERLOGGING_MAXSIZE} environment: - PUID=${PUID} - PGID=${PGID} - TZ=${TZ} volumes: - ${DOCKERCONFDIR}/homarr/configs:/app/data/configs - ${DOCKERCONFDIR}/homarr/icons:/app/public/icons - ${DOCKERCONFDIR}/homarr/data:/data ports: - 7575:7575 Start the container by running this command in your docker directory (typically /volume1/docker/appdata): ...
In this article, I’ll show you how to access a web page’s content, alter it using JavaScript, and display it using your Safari extension’s UI. Specifically, I’ll demonstrate how to display an article’s content in a popover. I often use Large Language Models (LLMs) to summarize articles when I’m unsure if they’re worth reading. Without the extension we’re about to build, I’d need to manually trigger Safari’s reader mode (⌘ + ⇧ + R), copy all content, and paste it into Claude or ChatGPT. This extension is a handy tool that reduces friction! ...
I run qbittorrent in a Docker container on my Synology NAS, with VPN configured at the Synology system level (Control Panel -> Network -> Network Interface) rather than the container level. For setup instructions, you can follow this guide. Even with killswitch enabled, I wanted to verify beyond the UI’s “Firewalled” status that my torrent traffic was actually routing through the VPN. To check this, SSH into your Synology NAS and run: ...