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Life is easier with some simple scripting. Grateful for everyone's encouragement and support!

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Clean out the old apps completely - take 1

2023.06.21   •   last modified 2023.06.29   •   2 min read

How to clean out your system completely of a given app, especially the iOS apps on Macs. No software to install to do this, and you are in complete control of the process. So no surprises.

Add pages of blog posts in GitHub Pages

2023.06.19   •   9 min read

I started with a regular GitHub theme, but it has nothing to help with writing blog posts or organizing them into pages.

Testing markdown bibliography and link references

2023.06.18   •   2 min read

I am very familiar with listing references throughout an article. Then it is easy to refer to the same source, if needed. What are the options here? Let’s experiment.

Eject key - modify it! The super simple way

2023.06.17   •   last modified 2023.06.28   •   7 min read

There is a way to assign any function to the Magic Keyboard Eject key, after all. No software to install, nothing much to mess with. Just a simple key assignment. I could not find that anywhere online so I had to go back to the basics.

Search, search and search again!

2023.06.16   •   4 min read

I sometimes need to check everywhere for, let’s say, remnants of a deleted program (all sorts of preference files and anything else). It’s time to simplify the whole system search with a quick shell script.