Posts under category 'macos'

Laravel Valet usage with special sites

Laravel Valet makes spinning up almost any type of php site on your local Mac a breeze. There are some edge cases where you might not want to run a site within Valet. On macOS, it is really easy to run other local sites using a custom Nginx config files.

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Installing Scantailor on macOS High Sierra

Today I discovered a pretty awesome looking piece of scanning software called scantailor. It apparently runs great on Windows and Linux, and the instructions say you can install it on macOS with Macport. For those of us that use Brew, the instructions were somewhat broken. Keep reading to see how I installed scantailor under macOS High Sierra

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Dropbox causing numerous opendirectoryd errors in macOS logs

Do you run Dropbox? Find your machine slow sometimes or Dropbox seems to sync endlessly? Do you see thousands of these errors appearing every second in your console? These issues might be the result of having dead symlinks in Dropbox.

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No equivalent to strace on OS X and the mysterious left square bracket

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