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Saturday, 13th August 2022

Bypassing macOS notarization (via) Useful tip from the geckodriver docs: if you’ve downloaded an executable file through your browser and now cannot open it because of the macOS quarantine feature, you can run “xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine path-to-binary” to clear that flag so you can execute the file.

# 12 am / macos, security

TIL Creating a tiled zoomable image with OpenSeadragon and vips — The San Francisco Microscopical Society has some extremely high resolution scanned images - one of them is a 1.67GB PNG file with a 25,088 × 17,283 pixel resolution.
TIL Defining setup.py dependencies using a URL — For [sqlite-utils issue 464](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/464) I implemented a fix to a tiny bug in a dependency in [my own fork](https://github.com/simonw/beanbag-docutils/tree/bytes-in-url) on GitHub.
Museum Golden State Model Railroad Museum — 900-A Dornan Drive, Point Richmond, CA 94801
Friday, 12th August 2022
Sunday, 14th August 2022