Reduce VHDX file size

Nov 15, 2021

Reducing the size of a VHDX (does not change the size of the virtual drive, just compresses the virtual disk file to only use the space it needs on the host computer):

In an admin powershell prompt: Optimize-VHD ‘P:\FullPath\VirtualDisk.vhdx’ -Mode Full

Docker-compose.yml for self-hosted Monica on m1

Jun 30, 2021

  version: "3.4"

  services:
    app:
      image: monica:apache
      depends_on:
        - db
      ports:
        - 8080:80
      environment:
        - DB_HOST=db
        - DB_USERNAME=monica
        - DB_PASSWORD=supersecret
      volumes:
        - data:/var/www/html/storage
      restart: always
    db:
      image: mariadb:latest
      environment:
        - MARIADB_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=true
        - MARIADB_DATABASE=monica
        - MARIADB_USER=monica
        - MARIADB_PASSWORD=supersecret
      volumes:
        - /Users/yourUserName/workspace/monica-docker/mysql:/var/lib/mysql
      restart: always

  volumes:
    data:
      name: data
    mysql:
      name: mysql

XCode Error: Failed to produce diagnostic for expression; please file a bug report

Mar 17, 2021

XCode Error: Failed to produce diagnostic for expression; please file a bug report

In our case, we were calling an extension function on an array in a viewmodel. In a SwiftUI view we were doing Text(viewModel.someArray.extensionFunction()). The problem was that I had renamed someArray to someBetterNamedArray and it couldn’t handle it.

NPM - setting global install location

Mar 1, 2021

mkdir ~/.npm-global

npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'

Add to shell script:

export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH

Moving Homebrew from x86 to ARM on M1

Feb 10, 2021

Uninstall x86 version (maybe in x86 terminal?):

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/…)”

I also had to force remove a directory by running:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/Homebrew

Make sure you move to an ARM terminal at this point if you haven’t already, then run the normal Homebrew install script.