the padded cell

August 1, 2025

All I got up to this day (as far as you know)

2 posts on this day

More frequent, smaller posts

I’m trying something new here. Instead of waiting for fully-formed thoughts, I’m going to share more as I go: quick things I’ve learned, half-baked ideas, useful links. I’ve added some structure to keep things findable, but the main goal is just to share more often.

The main feed will give you everything I post, if you only want certain types of posts, I’ve also made section-specific feeds. The blog feed is what you’ve been getting if you were already subscribed.

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You can enable the fingerprint reader for sudo on macOS, and pressing my finger on a button beats having to type the password, steps:

  1. cp /etc/pam.d/sudo_local{.template,}
  2. Edit /etc/pam.d/sudo_local and uncomment auth sufficient pam_tid.so.

The reason for doing this in sudo_local is that this file will not get reset with system changes from Apple.