As part of our general effort to try and raise the quality of Hammerspoon, I've been working with @latenitefilms to track down some memory leaks, which can be very easy if you use the Leaks profile in Xcode's "Instruments" tool. I tried this various ways, but I kept running into …
So this is a fun one, some marvellous hackers, including Zoltan Balaton and Sebastien Mauer have been working on Qemu to add support for the Sam460ex motherboard, a PowerPC system from 2010. Of particular interest to me is that this was a board which received an official port of Amiga …
Back in this post I described having switched from a Mac Mini + DAS setup, to a Synology and an Intel NUC setup, for my file storage and server needs.
For a time it was good, but I found myself wanting to run more server daemons, and the NUC wasn't really …
Homebridge is a great way to expose arbitrary devices to Apple's HomeKit platform. It has helped bridge the Google Nest and Netgear Arlo devices I have in my home, into my iOS devices, since neither of those manufacturers appear to be interested in becoming officially HomeKit compatible.
London has been …
Trello have a Mac app, which I use for work and it struck me this morning that several recurring calendar events I have, which exist to remind me to review a particular board, would be much more pleasant if they contained a link that would open the board directly.
That …
Homebridge is a great way of connecting loads of devices that don't support Apple's HomeKit, to your iOS devices. It consists of a daemon that understands the HomeKit Accessory Protocol and many plugins that talk to other devices/services.
My home server is running Ubuntu, so installing Homebridge is fairly …
Systemd includes journald, a fancy replacement for the venerable syslog daemon (and its descendents, syslog-ng and rsyslog).
One interesting, but frustrating, decision by journald's maintainers is that it does not speak the syslog network protocol, so it's unable to receive remote syslog events. Remote syslog is a tremendously useful …
Hammerspoon is heavily dependent on Lua - it's the true core of the application, so it's unavoidable that we have to interact with Lua's C API in a lot of places. If you've never used it before, Lua's C API is designed to be very simple to integrate with other code …
A recent feature request for Hammerspoon requested that we add support for reading battery information about AirPods (UK US).
Unfortunately because their battery status is quite complex (two earbuds and the case), this information is not reported via the normal IOKit APIs, but with a bit of poking around in …
Today marks 10 years since the very first public release of Terminator, a multiplexing terminal emulator project.
I started working on Terminator as a simple way to get 4 terminals to not overlap on my laptop screen. In the following years it grew many features and attracted a userbase I …