Mac

Disclaimer: Made with Google Gemini-Pro prompts If you use a physical Japanese (JIS) hardware keyboard layout on a modern Mac, you have likely run into a frustrating quirk: even if you change your macOS text settings to output a backslash (\) instead of a Yen sign (¥), Google Chrome, VS Code, and Slack will completely ignore your system settings. While the macOS Terminal respects the software substitution, web browsers and electron apps read the raw hardware keycode (0x5C) directly from your Japanese keyboard, forcing the ¥ symbol onto your screen unless you hold down Option + ¥....

For many many year I have been using TexMaker for all my offline LaTeX document creation, compiling and editing needs. A few years back, Overleaf came along with its super ease-of-access approach to online LaTeX document editing and sharing. Overleaf has an edge over other LaTeX software distributions, mainly because of the following reasons: Overleaf is online, so the document can be accessed from anywhere with Internet. Adding collaborators is as easy as adding their email addresses....

Problems I have encountered using Dropbox: Dropbox storage space available for use is really low, and is consumed relatively easily because of the .git folder. Dropbox real time sync has issues with git if multiple computers work on a project simultaneously. Although, it has been rare that I have encountere this. My current solution for this problem is as follows: Move the most space consuming .git folders outside of Dropbox. This way Dropbox won’t be syncing these large folders....