Life of a software developer

Permissions

Make a directory writable by Apache on macOS

2019-03-27 ·1 min read

Make a directory writable by Apache on macOS by assigning ownership to _www and setting permissions with chown and chmod.

10.14 755 _www apache chmod chown httpd macos mojave osx permissions root staff sudo web-server

Settings.canDrawOverlays() always returns false on Android O

2017-12-28 ·2 min read

Work around Settings.canDrawOverlays() returning false after permission is granted on Android O by testing a temporary invisible overlay.