Software

Ever since I started using a Mac, I kept wishing there were a feature like the one on Unix where simply moving the mouse cursor onto a window makes it active. It is late in the day, but I finally came across a piece of software with a Focus Follows Mouse feature (AutoRaise). Installing AutoRaise The installation instructions offer a disk image, a Zip file and manual compilation, but the disk image was not supported, so I go with manual compilation from Git. [Read More]

Until a few years ago I had sync configured across several PCs with Dropgox, but a change for the worse in Dropbox put a limit on the number of devices, so these days I use Resilio Sync to keep my PCs in sync. Lately I have been using node-based tools such as React and Git frequently, and if I keep those working directories inside a Resilio Sync folder, an enormous number of files get synced. In particular, I do not want the contents of node_modules produced by node builds, or the git management folder, to be synced, so - late in the day though it is - I began to wonder whether Resilio Sync has an exclusion setting. [Read More]