Every once in a while I wonder if I’m using an unnecessary 3rd party app when a built-in on macOS would be sufficient. Terminal.app is one such app - I’ve used iTerm2 for many years, but I don’t use a bunch of its features, and every time I open iTerm2 settings it feels like overkill. I was on my spouse’s Mac over the weekend helping her get some things set up and used Terminal.

Google’s been doing some interesting things lately. Some attract lots of attention, some very little. One that you may not have heard of is Google Collections . It’s just a series of Java helper classes. At first it may seem like a non-event, and mostly for us .NET folks that’s true. But I read this post about a year ago, and my interest was piqued by their Preconditions class. It’s nothing significant - it just throws various argument exceptions if you don’t pass “true” to its methods.