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Essie's Explorer Journal 2: Make your life easy - Mac your life easy

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Here is the explorer journal of Essie, tracing tools, resource worth to share, published every week.

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1.touchbar-systemmonitor

Project: https://github.com/spagnuolocarmine/touchbar-systemmonitor/blob/master/README.md


A MacBook pro open source tool, show system status in Touch Bar.

2.Pock

Project: https://github.com/pigigaldi/Pock

Put Dock of MacBook in Touch Bar.

3.How to enable Touch ID for sudo 


Article: https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/quick-tip-enable-touch-id-for-sudo/



How to enable MacBook's Touch ID for sudo command.

4.Macbook touch bar for git in iTerm2

Article: https://refruity.xyz/macbook-touch-bar-in-iterm2/



Introduce how to config iTerm2(terminal tool in Mac), adding git commands as buttons in Touch Bar, once you click it, it will execute the git command.

5.Eradicating .DS_Store from Git

Article: https://0xmachos.com/2020-01-22-Eradicating-.DS_Store-From-Git/



We all know and hate the hidden file .DS_Store, every git commit it will come along. Read this article to set in global configuration to ignore it instead of setting for each repository.

6.Use the clipboard from the command line

Article: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2021/03/15/use-the-clipboard-from-the-command-line/

Read this article you will learn how to read clipboard infomation by OS command line with simple examples.

7.SwiftBar

Project: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar



An open source tool to add custom menu bar programs on macOS.

Comments

  1. Great list of tools and tips. My favorites are #5 .DS_Store and Git, very useful, and #6 command-line clipboard, very cool!

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