This is my second annual list of Missing Apple Features and Products. Last year’s list was a tweet.
These are features and products that Apple has either promised, and not delivered—or things that seem like obvious low-hanging fruit. 🍎
First, the good news: I’ve checked off the ones that were delivered in 2021.
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| .SYNOPSIS | |
| CLI password generator using RNGCryptoServiceProvider | |
| .DESCRIPTION | |
| Generates a password at the command-line using a cryptographically-secure random | |
| number generator. | |
| .PARAMETER Length | |
| How long of a password to generate. | |
| .PARAMETER Chars | |
| Chars from which to generate the password. The default set avoids ambiguous characters |
| Process: TablePlus [9719] | |
| Path: /Users/USER/*/TablePlus.app/Contents/MacOS/TablePlus | |
| Identifier: com.tinyapp.TablePlus | |
| Version: 1.0 (112) | |
| Code Type: X86-64 (Native) | |
| Parent Process: ??? [1] | |
| Responsible: TablePlus [9719] | |
| User ID: 502 | |
| Date/Time: 2018-06-25 12:38:57.600 -0700 |
| Process: TablePlus [2231] | |
| Path: /private/var/folders/*/TablePlus.app/Contents/MacOS/TablePlus | |
| Identifier: com.tinyapp.TablePlus | |
| Version: 1.0 (112) | |
| Code Type: X86-64 (Native) | |
| Parent Process: ??? [1] | |
| Responsible: TablePlus [2231] | |
| User ID: 501 | |
| Date/Time: 2018-06-25 09:19:37.801 -0700 |
| Process: TablePlus [2183] | |
| Path: /private/var/folders/*/TablePlus.app/Contents/MacOS/TablePlus | |
| Identifier: com.tinyapp.TablePlus | |
| Version: 1.0 (112) | |
| Code Type: X86-64 (Native) | |
| Parent Process: ??? [1] | |
| Responsible: TablePlus [2183] | |
| User ID: 501 | |
| Date/Time: 2018-06-25 09:18:35.223 -0700 |
| const Benchmark = require('benchmark'); | |
| const axios = require('axios'); | |
| const superagent = require('superagent'); | |
| var suite = new Benchmark.Suite; | |
| const targetUrl = 'http://httpbin.org/ip'; | |
| suite | |
| .add('axios', { |
As a temporary workaround for Linode DNS problems, make your servers resolve using Google DNS. You must list Google’s DNS servers before Linode’s.
One way to do this in Ubuntu Linux is:
Add the following line to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:
prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4;
Reboot, or restart networking: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
| // | |
| // To test: | |
| // | |
| // (Use this in a Chocolat Mixin. Drop in any default.html file.) | |
| // | |
| // 1. Press Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-H and note the window appears. | |
| // 2. Press "OK" and note that onUnload fires. | |
| // 3. Repeat several times until you're convinced it works. | |
| // | |
| // Then: |
| " | |
| " While editing a Markdown document in Vim, preview it in the | |
| " default browser. | |
| " | |
| " Author: Nate Silva | |
| " | |
| " To install: Place markdown.vim in ~/.vim/ftplugin or | |
| " %USERPROFILE%\vimfiles\ftplugin. | |
| " | |
| " To use: While editing a Markdown file, press ',p' (comma p) |