How to make your terminal smart? 😎

Dipak Parmar — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:37:32 +0000

Past few months, I’ve been busy learning Cloud architectures and improving the current workflow at my workplace.

I had few challenges as others might have to choose the right technology and techniques to make things more productive. Having a UX mindset, I think, made pretty good choices and helping me a lot with what I’m doing on my day-to-day tasks.

Today, I would like to share one of the challenges and solutions I found during my learning and implementation.

Like many developers, who work mainly on the command-line interfaces (CLI), I think you might have that same frustrating issues when you have to input the same commands and arguments with different variables, except you already made the script to overcome that. Where I didn’t want to write something from scratch and maintain it where there are tools available to solve that.

Luckily, I found Fig in my search. A macOS app for terminal. Yes, an app that works like an add-on but so much powerful. It has a sidebar that attaches to your terminal and gives you handy apps like git, curl, ssh, and many more, and you can build your own.

Few of the features and reason I choose fig:

🌟 Sidebar Apps
🌟 Local execution
🌟 Supports SSH
🌟 Crowdsourced apps and autocomplete

Another cool feature is command autocomplete, which gives you vscode style suggestions. It gives you command completion based on your current dir, state, auth info etc., and I think that’s why they called it 21st centuries terminal.

At this stage, it has more than 20 autocomplete specs for CLI’s and growing. I build one for Terraform, which made my life so easy doing thing commands so easy.

Dipak Parmar

@iamdipakparmar

Built this autocomplete for @HashiCorp's Terraform CLI during Fig hack night. 🌙

💻 Sign up @withfig to try this, or other smart autocomplete specs like docker, kubectl, git, brew etc., at dipak.to/fig #DevOps #Developer #aws #DevRel #javascript

00:22 AM - 22 Mar 2021

You can try it out by downloading from withfig.com or send me a message for an invite.

Currently only available for Mac, Linux version coming up soon.

mac OS Dock changes position on two screens 🖥

Dipak Parmar — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:30:57 +0000

It was so annoying when dock keeps jumping from my main screen to another screen. for the first few times, I ignored but, it started frustrated me so went to google to find out some solution I'm the only one or some other two screen geeks is having the same issue. And found that I'm not the one, found a few solutions that I'm mentioning here.

1. Apple's Mission control uses a separate space thing which distinguishes your screens ⚠️

try disabling displays have separate spaces

Pro: that fixes the moving dock, yay 🤩 but here is the con

Con: you lose the multi-desktop feature, it's kinda a second screen presenter mode for your screen so for this was a workaround

I checked Mission Control and Display has separate Spaces is checked. - "Felix Hernandez"

2. For some people it's a bug and but for apple, it's a feature ✅

you can move dock from one screen to another screen by pointing arrow at the very bottom of the screen for 2-4 seconds! ✨

Found interesting reply by SputnikTechnologies

Hey guys, So apparently, this is an actual feature and not a bug. It's been ******* me off as well as I use 3 monitors, but I read on a different forum how to actually make it appear on a different monitor and all you have to do is actually move your mouse to the center of the screen, and move it all the way down as if you're trying to drive into the bottom of the screen. you'll see it appears on any monitor you do this to (clearly being a feature). I think it's stupid and would love to have the option to disable this without losing my separate spaces for each monitor, but I guess this is the Apple way. What can ya do? Hope this helps.

Orignal Discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5527972?answerId=23674095022#23674095022

Reseting mac OS Dock

copy and paste this on terminal

defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock

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How to make your terminal smart? 😎

mac OS Dock changes position on two screens 🖥

1. Apple's Mission control uses a separate space thing which distinguishes your screens ⚠️

2. For some people it's a bug and but for apple, it's a feature ✅

Reseting mac OS Dock