Turn Bluetooth On and Off from Command Line on macOS


Bluetooth has been a revelation in wireless technology: wireless mice, headphones, streaming devices, and a variety of home and office environments.  It goes without saying that wireless peripherals are so much easier to manage than wired counterparts, especially mice, that I usually have...

Get Up and Win


Down on my hands and knees, I crawl around, bleeding out.  I’m resigned to my fate.  A kind stranger, a new friend, rushes over to me and kneels to help, reviving me at a time that didn’t require it.  Just as I’m revived, the kind stranger says “Get up and win”.  I...

17 Designers with Fantastic Side Projects


It’s important to have something outside of work for all of us, like a hobby or a side project. It keeps us sane; it keeps us creative. What you... The post 17 Designers with Fantastic Side Projects appeared first on Onextrapixel

Lessons in Failure: Removing the Old Debugger from Firefox


Joining the Firefox DevTools team was a dream come true for me.  I shared why in the first episode of the Script & Style show but the quick summary is that I grew up loving Firefox (even before it was called “Firefox”) because Mozilla cared about developers via their early developer...

Mercurial: Mass Add and Remove All Files


While I much prefer git and the GitHub workflow, Firefox’s codebase (mozilla-central) is store in a mercurial repository.  There are tools that wrap mercurial so you can use a git-like interface, like git-cinnabar, but my philosophy is to learn the root tool so that I know what’s going...

Change Mac Brightness from Command Line


Earlier this week I posted about how you can modify your Mac’s volume from command line.  Little command line scripts make me smile because I spend so much of my day in command line, and automation can be the key to productivity.  I next thought about modifying brightness from command line...

Find and Change Default App for File Type from Command Line


There are few things more frustrating to any computer user than files opening in an unwanted application.  Sure you can use the Open menu item in the desired application but we all just want to double-click a file and see it open in the application we expect.  I recently got to thinking about this...

Real-time Geolocation & Reverse IP Lookup with ipapi (Sponsored)


There’s an incredible amount you can do when you know where your web visitor is located.  You can target advertising to the user, you can load maps of nearby search queries, you can localize website verbiage, you can customize content for their region, etc.  I guess what I’m trying...

What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?


I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow. As of last month

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