If you are trying to run an un-notarized macOS app and you are getting the error message “App can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer”, you can run the following simple command in the terminal to allow the app to run.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Dinky.app

Here’s one of the most useful commands if you want to prevent Git from tracking file permissions. This is the sceanrio where all the files shown as modified in Git is when you change the file permissions, but you don’t want to commit those changes.

git config core.fileMode false

To check the number of LINES in a file (robots.txt in the following example), run the following command in your terminal.

wc -l robots.txt

# 15 robots.txt

Here’s how you can do it using the URL::forceHttps() method. Set this in your app’s boot() method of the service provider.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL;

URL::forceHttps(app()->isProduction());

Here’s how you can disable scrolling of the page behind a dialog element using :has() selector. Courtesy of this tweet by Adam Argyle.

html:has(dialog[open]) {
  overflow: hidden;
}

Here’s how you can temporarily disable timestamps (created_at and updated_at fieldss) in Laravel.

$post = Post::find(1);
$post->timestamps = false;
$post->title = 'New Title';
$post->save();

Just run the following command in the console and you’ll be able to edit the webpage you’re on.

document.designMode = 'on'