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Create Context Menu Items in Mac Finder
As much as I like exercising my command line skills, for many tasks I'd rather click a time or two. The problem is that
yarn install
,brew install
, and other package managers don't come with UI extending capabilities...so knowledgable people like us need to find a...How to checksum
Many of us see the term checksum and checksum outputs frequently but don't really take the time to run them -- oftentimes we simply trust the file we've downloaded is in working order and from the original source. This past weekend when I was attempting to...
Patch Super Dram World
My recent dive into retro gaming has opened my eyes to how much time and effort still goes into playing console games that are as old as I am. The basic challenge has gone out of these games, understandably, so players have improvised new goals like...
Show Hidden Files in Mac Finder
Setting up a new machine is a great time for me to write blog posts about configuration settings that I'd forgotten to document. Much of the time I refer back to this post to figure out how I did things like Add Dock Separators and...
Play Wii Games on Mac
I was one of those guys that bought the Wii off of eBay shortly after its release at a scalper's ransom. For months my roommates and I would drink beer, talk trash, and play Wii Sports bowling for hours on end. Of course the Wii never...
Play GameCube Games on Mac or PC
My current obsession with retro gaming has brought me to creating a RetroPie on Raspberry Pi, a Recalbox on Raspberry Pi, playing retro games on Mac with OpenEmu, and exploring how to play Sony Playstation games within OpenEmu. My newest adventure has...
Node EADDRINUSE (Address Already in Use) Error
Every once in a while my MacBook Pro freaks out and a process goes rogue. This oftentimes happens when I'm working on the excellent debugger.html project; I attempt to start the server side of the debugger and suddenly I'm hit with an error that resembles the...
How to Play Sony Playstation Games on OpenEmu
I've been having the time of my life playing retro Nintendo64, NES, SNES, and Game Gear games since I discovered OpenEmu. I bought a few USB Nintendo 64 controllers and I'm like a kid again, even sharing that joy with my two young children. Using...
Detect Supported Audio Formats with JavaScript
As streaming becomes our main entertainment source and vendors fight to create the best video format, it's going to be more and more important that we detect device and browser video support before posting videos on our websites. We think less about audio but the same...
Better Debugging with Conditional Breakpoints
I love conditional breakpoints. Really! They're my favorite debugging tool. When I got started in web development, "debugging" for me meant creating a
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and appending strings to its contents to act as a log. But once Firebug rolled around—and then when browsers started...