Fixing macOS Dock Focus Issue: Make App Windows Active on Click

Author: , February 8th, 2025

If you’re using macOS 14.7.3 and experiencing an annoying issue where clicking a running app’s icon in the Dock doesn’t immediately make it active for typing, you’re not alone. Instead of the expected behavior—where the app comes to the forefront, ready for interaction—you might find yourself having to click inside the app’s window before you […]

How To Disable All Automatic WordPress Updates

Author: , April 22nd, 2024

To disable all automatic WordPress updates, just edit your WordPress/wp-config.php file and locate the line that says: /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ Add the following line ABOVE that line, then save and exit:

How To Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress

Author: , September 19th, 2022

To disable automatic updates in WordPress, simply edit the wp-config.php file in your WordPress root directory and add the following line:

How To Disable Email Bounce Messages In Postfix

Author: , March 18th, 2022

How To Disable VIM Mouse Automatic Visual Mode

Author: , July 27th, 2021

Current Session:

All Sessions: Add the following to your ~/.vimrc file:

How To Prevent Spotlight From Indexing External Drives on MacOS

Author: , February 26th, 2021

On MacOSX 10.10.5 Yosemite, I was having trouble with Spotlight preventing the clean eject of an attached hard drive. Using the fuser command allowed me to see that it what the Spotlight-specific mds process preventing the eject.

At first, I tried to disable the indexing via the mdutil command, but that just gave me […]

How To Disable Automatic Comment Insertion In VIM

Author: , August 6th, 2020

Disable NOW in vim:

To disable auto-comments permanently, add the following line to ~/.vimrc:

To see the current settings:

Visit https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Disable_automatic_comment_insertion for more information!

How To Disable WordPress Profile Access for Subscribers

Author: , January 24th, 2020

How To Prevent WordPress from Applying wpautop to a Page or Post

Author: , November 19th, 2019

All credit to Graham Walters for this excellent plugin and post, upon which this post is based – thank you, sir! https://grahamwalters.me/lab/disable-wpautop-on-specific-postspages/ Recently, a client was having problems using a plugin called by a shortcode. As it turned out, the JavaScript embedded in the returned content was being broken by the WordPress auto-paragraph feature known […]

How To Prevent Vim From Auto-Commenting New Lines

Author: , August 4th, 2019

To prevent vim from added net comments, edit the .vimrc file in your home directory, and add: