VMware Fusion Ctrl Click Issues

The default configuration for running windows inside of VMware Fusion on a mac is to have ctrl + left click act as a right click. This can cause issues when trying to select multiple files etc. Fortunately, this setting is easily disabled in the Keyboard and Mouse settings for the virtual machine.

  1. Go to settings
  2. Go to Keyboard & Mouse settings.
  3. Edit the Windows 10 profile
  4. Uncheck the option for Secondary Button
  5. Save and exit

This simple fix will save you a lot of frustration. Hope it help!

 

How to Mass Unfollow on Twitter

Have you ever wanted to remove some of your followers on twitter? Twitter does not provide a native way to do this, but you can automate it in your browsers developer console.

Steps:

  1. Using Chrome, login to your Twitter account and go to your follower’s page (https://twitter.com/following)
  2. Make sure you are using the Classic version of Twitter’s website.
  3. Open developer tools in your Chrome browser CMD+Option+C (Mac) or Control+Shift+C (Windows, Linux, Chrome OS)
  4. Go to the Console tab
  5. Paste in the code below and press enter
$('.unfollow-text').trigger('click')

This command will find all the unfollow buttons on the page and click them. So however many followers you have displayed will be immediately unfollowed.

 

I thought this was a neat trick to clean up your followers. Hope you find it useful.

Debugging Go Error

After a recent upgrade to macOS Mojave, my machine was not able to debug in GoLand due to the error below:

could not launch process: exec: "lldb-server": executable file not found in $PATH

To fix this you have to install xcode-select, a command-line utility on macOS: Type in the command below into your terminal to install xcode-select.

xcode-select --install

After installing xcode-select, everything was working.

How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive

When zipping a folder using the command line in macOS, you may have noticed certain files are include such as DS_Store and __MACOSX are included. With a few command arguments, these files can be filtered out.

Exclude All Hidden Files

zip -r zipFolderName.zip pathToFolder -x "*.*"

Exclude .DS_Store and __MACOSX

zip -r zipFolderName.zip pathToFolder -x "*.DS_Store" "__MACOSX*"

Exclude all jpegs

zip -r zipFolderName.zip pathToFolder -x "*.jpegs"

Hopefully this helps you filter out unwanted files when zipping folders in macOS.