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.
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.