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WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can really do


🔗 a linked post to whatcable.uk » — originally shared here on

WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. Name a cable and it tracks how the cable actually performs over time, so you can spot the one that has started misbehaving. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display.

Did you know that not every USB-C cable is the same?

If you answered "yes" to that question, then my friend, do I have the application for you!

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Monocle for macOS


🔗 a linked post to heyiam.dk » — originally shared here on

My buddy Paul1 sent me a link to this macOS app a few weeks ago, but I didn’t have a use case for it until yesterday.

I was reading a few different documents relating to a machine learning contract I just started, and I was getting overwhelmed by the mountains of text on my screen.

Monocle is a very simple utility for macOS that blurs out every app window that is not in the foreground. If you want to see everything, you can shake your mouse back and forth2. If you want it blurred again, you do the same shake gesture.

It’s the best $9 I’ve spent on software in years.

  1. Latest blog post was over a year ago?! Come on man, share some of those dope woodworking projects you’ve been working on! 😅 ↩

  2. Which also triggers one of my favorite macOS features: making your mouse cursor super huge so you can find it on your screen. ↩

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Proxy Issues with iPhone and Mac OS X

originally shared here on

Like all tried and true iOS developers, I love using the excellent Charles Proxy. However, I've been running into issues where the proxy is running while the iPhone is attached to my Mac.

Whenever I would have Charles closed and my phone plugged in, I was getting this helpful message:

Safari can't open the page https://facebook.com because Safari can't connect to the server https://facebook.com

Usually, you can fix this on Wi-Fi by going into Network > Wi-Fi > Advanced Settings > Proxies, and disabling Web Proxy (HTTP) and Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS).

Unhelpfully, however, you'll note that the iPhone USB network interface does not include an "Advanced Settings" button.

No problem! Head to your Terminal and type in the following two lines of code:

sudo networksetup -setsecurewebproxystate "iPhone USB" off
sudo networksetup -setwebproxystate "iPhone USB" off

This disables both the secure proxy and the unsecure proxy.

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