What's it all about, Alfie?

I just got back from getting my Moderna 6-month COVID booster, and I was a touch nervous - the Walgreen's website made it seem like all the data collection and ID verification was going to be done before I got there - but things rarely turn out as well as that. So when I got there, and needed to do some paperwork, I wasn't really surprised.

Still... it wasn't too bad, and it didn't take long for the pharmacist to take care of the gal before me in line, and then me. Pretty standard stuff. Given that Thanksgiving is this week, and I'm going to be visiting family in Indy, it seems smart to get it before going, as opposed to after. Sure, it'll not have generated the maximum antibodies, but it's a start, and every little bit helps.

With the update to macOS Monterey, the previous macOS command-line program for generating UUIDs, uuid, has been replaced with uuidgen. I'm not at all sure why the change, but I was glad that a little investigation with ls /usr/bin revealed something that turned out to be the winner.

With this, one of my favorite aliases is now:

alias uupb="uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy"

which generates a new UUID, lower-cases all the characters, removes the trailing new-line, and then puts it into the paste buffer for pasting in an editor, or on a form... as many times as you need.

I don't know if there are even release notes about the changes at this level of macOS, but they usually get figured out - one way or another. 🙂

It looks like my new MacBook Pro is Out for Delivery today, and it could be a good day. 🙂 I'm planning on using Migration Assistant to move my User files and Settings, but not anything in /usr - which I have done in the past, but this time, I'm going to leave Homebrew installed on my Intel machine, and I'll just install the ARM-version of Homebrew once I get the laptop all set-up.

When I get it set up, I'll then install the ARM Homebrew, and then:

  $ brew install --cask temurin
  $ brew install leiningen
  $ brew install jq

And from there, I can set up nodenv and rvm... and then just work my way to getting back to running everything I need. Should be an interesting day or two... 🙂

I knew it was coming... they warned me with macOS 11 Big Sur... but it was still a bit of a surprise this morning to reconfigure Apache 2 to use userdir, which macOS Monterey doesn't enable by default, and undoes if you have it already configured. That's OK, it's not a huge deal to turn it back on, but the big news was the complete loss of PHP.

I haven't used it in many years, but it was the one tool that shipped with macOS that I could talk to Postgres, and script, but hey... things change, and they did warn me. 🙂

I guess it would be nice to have something like Node automatically handled, but then that would likkely clash with the Node devs and the nodenv installs, etc. So I'll live with Apache 2, and the userdir, and then just serve up static content on port 80, and leave the other stuff for the development environments.