readme.mlav.land

readme.mlav.land is a personal reference library of opinionated how-tos. It documents the tools, workflows, and techniques used at mlav.land — things worth writing down once so they don't have to be figured out twice. Everything here is yours to steal.

• What is readme.mlav.land?
  A short introduction to this site — what it is, what it's for, and how to use it.
• Getting surface temperature from ESRI Landsat data
  Esri's Landsat Explorer is a free website that allows to view satellite data, including land surface temperature, anywhere in the world.
• Clean macOS using Mole
  A guide to installing and using Mole, a free macOS cleaner tool.
• Import 3d buildings in Rhino
  A workflow for pulling building footprints with heights and turning into a 3D massing model in Rhino.
• Shadowless screenshots on macOS
  Capture whole app windows with their rounded corners intact but without the automatic drop shadow.
• Local open source LLMs
  Install, download and use local open source LLMs on your machine.
• Android ADB diagnostic scripts
  Three shell scripts to audit battery health, performance, and storage on an Android device over USB from your Mac.
• Syncthing Sync
  Set up Syncthing to keep folders in sync across devices — without a cloud middleman.
• Pandoc cheatsheet
  Useful pandoc commands for everyday use.
• Book filename generator
  Generate consistent AUTHOR-YEAR-Title filename from the terminal, automatically copied to your clipboard.
• Guide for ~/.zshrc
  A guide to configuring your ~/.zshrc file: aliases, functions, environment variables, plugins, and shell behavior.
• Remove app from quarantine
  Remove the macOS quarantine attribute from a downloaded app that Gatekeeper is blocking.
• New Laptop Setup
  Steps to get a fresh Mac ready for development — Terminal, Homebrew, SSH keys, and essentials.
• Draw a square from a center point in QGIS
  Run a Python script in the QGIS console to draw a fixed-size square polygon, either from hardcoded coordinates or by clicking directly on the map.
• Tampermonkey scripts
  Scripts for the Tampermonkey plugin that run small Javascript programs on any website.
• .gitignore Templates
  Quick-reference for common .gitignore patterns — macOS, Node, Python, and more.
• Downloading audio with lucida
  Use lucida to download audio from streaming platforms.
• Remove metadata with exiftool
  Strip all EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata from photos and files before sharing them.
• Export .pdf to .png
  A python script to convert all pdfs to pngs in a folder.
• Working with blocks in Rhino
  Modelling architecture faster and creating lighter models using blocks in Rhino.
• DJ Setup
  Our DJ setup with Ableton Live, a launchpad, and the MX12 and PC12 controllers.
• Parse .epub file
  A python script that extracts unique words from an epub file that match a specific regex pattern.
• Check mp3 files bitrate
  A python script to check bitrate from all mp3 files in a folder.
• Rhino keyboard shortcuts
  Custom keyboard shortcuts for Rhino3D.