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Those who have remote colleagues and clients sometimes struggle with timezones and don’t know how to use Calendar.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you do. Turn on timezone support if it is off for some reason:<\/p>\n

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When you add a meeting, specify its timezone (unless it’s the one you are in):<\/p>\n

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In the toolbar, select which timezone to display your calendar in and create events by default:<\/p>\n

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To be honest, I have no idea how come this “timezone support” is an option and what happens when it’s off.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Those who have remote colleagues and clients sometimes struggle with timezones and don’t know how to use Calendar", "date_published": "2022-11-08T19:35:20+03:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-08T19:35:10+03:00", "tags": [ "Mac", "screenshots", "solution" ], "image": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/timezones-1@2x.jpg", "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:35:20 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "345", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": true, "links_required": [], "og_images": [ "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/timezones-1@2x.jpg", "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/timezones-2@2x.jpg", "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/timezones-3@2x.jpg" ] } }, { "id": "344", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/figma-offset-path\/", "title": "How to do Offset Path in Figma", "content_html": "

I’ve learned how to do Offset Path in Figma. Say you have a path, and you need to make another one parallel to this one at an offset x<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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You copy the first path and give it a stroke width of 2x<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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Then you do Outline Stroke (⌘⇧O) and adjust the stroke to your liking:<\/p>\n

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And then you remove the unnecessary points:<\/p>\n

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Done! Crazy, but better then “you can’t do it”.<\/p>\n", "summary": "I’ve learned how to do Offset Path in Figma. Say you have a path, and you need to make another one parallel to this one at an offset x", "date_published": "2022-11-04T16:11:01+03:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-08T19:38:04+03:00", "tags": [ "Figma", "lifehack", "solution" ], "image": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/figma-offset-path-1@2x.jpg", "_date_published_rfc2822": "Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:11:01 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "344", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": true, "links_required": [], "og_images": [ "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/figma-offset-path-1@2x.jpg", "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/figma-offset-path-2@2x.jpg", "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/figma-offset-path-3@2x.jpg", "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/figma-offset-path-4@2x.jpg" ] } }, { "id": "304", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/notes-stop-syncing\/", "title": "If Apple Notes stop syncing", "content_html": "

Has it ever happened to you that Apple’s Notes just stopped syncing reliably via iCloud?<\/p>\n

For me it happens like this: the Mac stops uploading local changes to some notes to iCloud, so I don’t see them on my phone. I know that the problem is really in uploading from the Mac because the web version of iCloud continues to sync normally with my iPhone. Also, the new notes that I create on the phone, appear on my Mac.<\/p>\n

You may have found several fix suggestions online, most futile. Signing off iCloud and then signing back on helps, but this way you lose all the local changes that haven’t been uploaded to iCloud.<\/p>\n

What I’ve found to be a working and safe solution is to select the “All iCloud” folder in Notes, then sort notes by date changed, then move all the notes that hadn’t been uploaded to iCloud to the “On My Mac” account (you must enable it in Preferences) and then move them back to the iCloud account.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Has it ever happened to you that Apple’s Notes just stopped syncing reliably via iCloud?", "date_published": "2017-12-28T00:45:20+03:00", "date_modified": "2018-03-21T09:48:33+03:00", "tags": [ "Mac", "solution" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:45:20 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "304", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "80", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/fix-sudo-on-a-mac\/", "title": "Fix sudo on a Mac", "content_html": "

Sometimes the sudo<\/i> command stops working for reasons beyond human understanding. When you try to sudo anything, it says: “no valid sudoers sources found”.<\/p>\n

It happened to me twice. The first time it happened to a MacBook. I tried to make some changes to the sudoers file, but it didn’t help, and I gave up. After adding an SSD drive to my Mac Pro and moving the system to it, it happened again. Mac Pro is my main working machine, so I had<\/i> to fix it this time.<\/p>\n

Turned out the problem was with the permissions on the root directory. Presumably I’ve somehow broken them while moving my system.<\/p>\n

I found a working solution on MacRumors forum<\/a>. Here’s what you do:<\/p>\n

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  1. Restart your Mac is a single-user mode (press and hold ⌘+S during boot until you see command prompt).<\/li>\n
  2. \/sbin\/fsck -fy<\/tt>
    \n check the filesystem integrity (not sure it’s necessary, but I did it anyway).<\/li>\n
  3. \/sbin\/mount -wu \/<\/tt>
    \n mount the root filesystem.<\/li>\n
  4. \/bin\/chmod 1775 \/<\/tt>
    \n fix the permissions.<\/li>\n
  5. \/bin\/sync<\/tt>
    \n commit the changes to filesystem.<\/li>\n
  6. exit<\/tt><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After booting to the normal Mac environment, you may also need to repair permissions with the Disk Utility.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Sometimes the sudo command stops working for reasons beyond human understanding. When you try to sudo anything, it says", "date_published": "2012-11-06T13:52:13+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-11-06T13:50:11+03:00", "tags": [ "Mac", "solution" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:52:13 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "80", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": true, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } } ], "_e2_version": 4269, "_e2_ua_string": "Aegea 12.0a (v4269e)" }