l3nz

accountsd using 400% CPU on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H2)

TL;DR: Still open - see below.

This morning I woke up to some not-so-nice surprise - my 2018 MPB 13" would be kind of totally unusable. The accountsd process was stable at 400%, battery was going like ice-cream in the Sahara, and opening up LibreOffice was like a major achievement.

I did check the logs (that were growing at like 500 lines per second) and I saw a lot of lines at FAULT level:

fault 07:54:04.271342+0200 accountsd Unentitled access by client 'CallHistoryPlugi' (selector: accountsWithAccountType:handler:)

lornajane

Keyboard-only Mac Cheatsheet

Hi, I'm Lorna and I don't use a mouse. I have had RSI issues since a bad workstation setup at work in 2006. I've tried a number of extra hardware modifications but what works best for me is to use the keyboard and only the keyboard, so I'm in a good position and never reaching for anything else (except my coffee cup!). I rather unwisely took a job which required me to use a mac (I've been a linux user until now and also had the ability to choose my tools carefully) so here is my cheatsheet of the apps, tricks and keyboard shortcuts I'm using, mostly for my own reference. Since keyboard-only use is also great for productivity, you may also find some of these ideas useful, in which case at least something good has come of this :)

Apps List

There's more detail on a few of these apps but here is a quick overview of the tools I've installed and found helpful

Tool	Link	Comments

vhodges

/**
 * A simple theme for reveal.js presentations, derived from serif.css 
 * It's in the spirit of the Metropolis theme for beamer https://github.com/matze/mtheme
 *
 * This theme is Copyright (C) 2016 Vince Hodges, http://sourdoughlabs.com - it is MIT licensed.
 */

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fira+Sans');

.reveal a {

klmr

# Example makefile with some dummy rules

.PHONY: all
## Make ALL the things; this includes: building the target, testing it, and
## deploying to server.
all: test deploy

.PHONY: build
# No documentation; target will be omitted from help display
build:

jennybc

There are packages for this now!

2017-08-03: Since I wrote this in 2014, the universe, specifically Kirill Müller (https://github.com/krlmlr), has provided better solutions to this problem. I now recommend that you use one of these two packages:

• rprojroot: This is the main package with functions to help you express paths in a way that will "just work" when developing interactively in an RStudio Project and when you render your file.
• here: A lightweight wrapper around rprojroot that anticipates the most likely scenario: you want to write paths relative to the top-level directory, defined as an RStudio project or Git repo. TRY THIS FIRST.

I love these packages so much I wrote an ode to here.

I use these packages now instead of what I describe below. I'll leave this gist up for historical interest. 😆

jbryer

require(knitr)

#' Initializes a new Gitbook.
#'
#' This will initalize a new Gitbook in the given directory. When done, it will
#' also change the working directory.
#' 
#' @author Jason Bryer <jason@bryer.org>
newGitbook <- function(dir) {
	.Deprecated('This function has been moved to the gitbook R package. See http://jason.bryer.org/Rgitbook for more information')

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

kogakure

*.acn
*.acr
*.alg
*.aux
*.bak
*.bbl
*.bcf
*.blg
*.brf
*.bst