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How to set overscan on MacOS Displays when the slider is missing?

When I connect a monitor or TV to my Mac. Usually I have an overscan slider in the Display Preferences. However sometimes, it's not there. Ironically, this always seems to happen when the screen needs overscan adjustment.

Thankfully it's not impossible to fix the issue.

I haven't found much useful information on this, the difficulty level is quite high, we will need to use the terminal. Open spotlight and type Terminal, press enter and you'll get an imposing Terminal window, with a flashing cursor and not much else. We'll come back to that in a moment or two.

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//
//  FakeKeyEvents.swift
//  CutBox
//
//  Created by Jason Milkins on 26/3/18.
//  Copyright © 2019-2020 ocodo. All rights reserved.
//

import Foundation
import Carbon

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Pad Fixer.syx file can be sent to a Behringer Motör 49 (and perhaps to other size models too?)

It will set the 8 drum pads to be lined up with C1 .. D#2

Use a SysEx librarian e.g. https://www.snoize.com/SysExLibrarian/docs.html on Mac.

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Programming is the art of telling another human what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth

As Robert C. Martin stated in his book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship,

“Clean code is code that has been taken care of. Someone has taken the time to keep it simple and orderly. They have paid appropriate attention to details. They have cared.”

Why should you care? What’s wrong with code that just works?

Because software is never written once and finished. It needs to be enhanced, fixed, maintained, usually by more than one person.

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Setting up BluePill

https://github.com/linkedin/bluepill

https://github.com/linkedin/bluepill/releases (use the XCode 9.2 compatible release)

Copy the binary (bluepill) to /usr/local/bin

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UI Testing in Cocoa on macOS

Many times we are encouraged to write unit-tests, and decouple our UI from logic.

Do this, without a doubt, do it.

UI Testing should always be considered a second or third line of defence, to ensure that high level end-to-end integration is all a-ok.

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Monitoring Progress of xcodebuild

While you can not update XCode's progress bar via an external process, you can generate a progress indicator of some sort in the MacOS menu bar using status items.

For example there's an OpenSource project called BitBar which can be used to create a status item menu using any scripting language (via #! / shebang.)