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Docker on Mac: how to automatically resolve another service’s IP and add it to the .ENV

With two simple commands in docker compose

Oliver 29. December 2022
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Hacking the Salt Fiber Box WLAN SSID-name limitations ✨👨‍💻

Give your WiFi any name: with spaces, Umlauts – and even Emojis!

Oliver 26. October 2021
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MySQL 5.7 set datetime column to NULL from 0000-00-00 00:00:00

How to change a datetime or date column in MySQL to default NULL.

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Oliver 23. March 2021
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Continuous download of remote files with «rsync» from the macOS Terminal

A better alternative to «scp» when transferring multiple large files – which continues where it stopped in case of interrupted connectivity.

Oliver 7. March 2021
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Fix PHP Warning: session_start() with MAMP on macOS 11 Big Sur

Got a «PHP Warning: session_start() failed: No such file or directory» with MAMP PHP on macOS Big Sur – but found a way to make session storage work again

Oliver 29. September 2020
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Starting MAMP MySQL in macOS Big Sur errors «mysql.pid ended»

Solutions how to fix the issue with MAMP on macOS Big Sur Beta that the MySQL service cannot be started – with /tmp/mysql/mysql.pid ended

Oliver 30. August 2020
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$ brew doctor «A newer Command Line Tools release is available» but Software Update cannot find it

What to do when Homebrew says «A newer Command Line Tools release is available» – but macOS Catalina doesn’t confirm that?

Oliver 6. February 2020
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Live edit texts on any website — a helpful browser bookmarklet

Ever thought it would be helpful if you simply could just change that text on a website, to bring across your point? Well that’s possible – at least temporary: by using a modern web feature, you can basically edit any… Continue reading » “Live edit texts on any website — a helpful browser bookmarklet”

Oliver 10. January 2020
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Use this AppleScript for repeating batch file renaming jobs in macOS

A simple AppleScript for macOS to easily batch rename files sequentially to a user specific name.

Oliver 28. May 2018
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Unix Bash Shell script to fetch a list of Websites using CURL

This Unix Bash Shell script was designed to fetch a list of website URLs using curl, returning – upon success – the HTTP status code and the final URL retrieved following redirects.

Oliver 20. February 2017
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