Finding errors in my workflow

It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me - holidays, new laptop, job change1 and doing my personal year end review. While I was working on a new post, I also had my site open, and noticed the screenshot I used in a recent post. This is the same image I used in the post.

When I was proofing the post, everything looked good. After seeing screenshot I realized I hadn't fully vetted my proofing process. I'm on a new laptop and forgot (again)2 that macOS adds a wrapper and shadow box to all screenshots using the Shift-Cmd-4 keystroke.

The image on the post basically had compounding styling added:

Realizing what had happened, I opened up Terminal.app and disabled the shadow box.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true && killall SystemUIServer

Someday I'll make a checklist for setting up new Mac computers.

  1. More on that later. ↩

  2. https://mygeekdaddy.net/2023/02/16/new-mac-setup-notes/ ↩


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