Note: re-published nodecert – a little Node.js wrapper over mkcert for locally-trusted development-time TLS certificates – under the @ind.ie namespace (and reset the version to 1.0.0)

Please install/re-install if you got it last night:

1. npm i -g @ind.ie/nodecert
2. nodecert
3. Find the certificates (and certificate authority) in ~/.nodecert

https://source.ind.ie/hypha/tools/nodecert

#tls #ssl #nodejs #development

Just released v1.3.2 of nodecert – my little Node.js wrapper over mkcert for locally-trusted development-time TLS certificates:

Now seamlessly installs the certutil dependency for you on Linux. I could only test it with apt tonight. If anyone wants to test with yum and pacman and let me know if it works, I’d appreciate it :)

1. npm i -g nodecert
2. nodecert
3. Find the certificates (and certificate authority) in ~/.nodecert

https://source.ind.ie/hypha/tools/nodecert

#tls #ssl #nodejs #development

WAI-ARIA menus, and why you should generally avoid using them https://www.marcozehe.de/2018/09/22/wai-aria-menus-and-why-you-should-generally-avoid-using-them/ #web #a11y #development

Today I learned that status bar menus on macOS use a different run loop mode (.commonModes; https://source.ind.ie/better/app/blob/2018.2/Better/Better%20Mac/StatusAreaController.swift#L205) and so if you try to update a custom view via a timer on the default mode, your view won’t update. (Also, there’s a three-year-old bug with vibrant views and CoreAnimation that means that you apparently can’t use the latter in a system menu without artifacts, which is why I’m frame-animating a spinner via an NSImageView instead of using NSProgressIndicator).

#cocoa #development

Updated my post on “Workaround for unclickable app menu bug with window.makeKeyAndOrderFront and NSApp.activate on #macos” with a second workaround as the first one was randomly failing.

https://ar.al/2018/09/17/workaround-for-unclickable-app-menu-bug-with-window.makekeyandorderfront-and-nsapp.activate-on-macos/

This is an odd one – while testing the app as I was writing the update, the bug stopped manifesting even without the workaround.

Aren’t timing-related issues fun? :)

#cocoa #development