Macos on Jake Worth

Kill MacOS Processes by Name

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:51:09 -0400

I have a cron job that opens a program every day at a certain time. How can I also close it with a cron job?

Understanding Scrollbar Visibility

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:59:30 -0400

When doing web programming in a context where scroll might be expected, you may see some surprising behavior in the scrollable HTML– an inexplicable gray bar on the bottom or right of the element.

XCode Run Hotkey

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:12:52 -0500

⌘ + R.

Zoom and Scroll in Figma

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:22:34 -0500

When viewing a Figma design file, you can zoom in/out with CMD and up/down on a trackpad or magic mouse.

Scroll left or right with one-finger swipe left or right.

Zoom and scroll; along with adding comments and copying CSS, that’s most of what I do in Figma.

I’m sure that these commands are useful in many other settings, but I find them especially valuable in a Figma file, which can feel otherwise challenging for me to navigate.

Pipe to pbcopy

Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:56:33 -0400

Adding | pbcopy to the end of any command will send the standard output to your clipboard.

ls -al | pbcopy inside a rails project directory allowed me to paste this:

Gemfile
Gemfile.lock
README.md
Rakefile
app
bin
config
config.ru
db
features
lib
log
public
script
spec
test
tmp
vendor