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Workshop on Plato’s Theory of Forms
A close reading and discussion of a new manuscript by Vasilis Politis.
Held Friday 14 ‑ Sunday 16 February 2020.
Forcing Gmail to send email with zero margins
By default, it is not possible to send email with content as backgrounds or images taking up the whole width of email space. However, it is possible to do so with the following little trick.
This comes in handy when you want to resend e.g. nicely‑formatted Mailchimp e‑mail and still retain its full‑width layout (recall those wonderful header and footer images with no right‑ and left‑ margins!).
How to disable "This app is not optimized for your Mac" alert on macOS Mojave
In High Sierra, this popup only appeared once per each application that needs to be updated. In macOS Mojave, however, it is shown every new month. Here's how to disable it.
Spotify Link Generator: Open track in specific playlist
Tool to generate Spotify URI and Spotify Web URL to open track in the context of a specific playlist.
Unicode Normalization & Analysis Tool
Tool to detect and convert between different Unicode Normalization Forms.
Red Alert 2: Mental Omega 3.3.3 Complete Object Reference List
Comprehensive reference list of internal object codes for all structures, units and infantry in Red Alert 2: Mental Omega mod.
Tweaking Terminal on OS X
There are several things that annoy me on default Terminal behavior, so these are the things that I am going to solve in this article:
- Change and colorize Terminal prompt
- Make Terminal history remember only last instance of the same command
- Tweak history, so it will search for the command part already entered into prompt
- Add aliases for common commands
All these changes can be achieved by editing ~/.bash_profile file.
Disable Game Center daemon on OS X
In case Game Center daemon is running unnecessarily on your system, you can disable it.
Fixing broken anti-aliasing in Wine on Mac OS X with Quartz 2.7.11
After installing updated version of Quartz 2.7.11, font anti‑aliasing in Wine‑emulated applications no longer works.