Jupyter Notebook Shortcut on MacOS using Anaconda

It’s not immediately clear on Mac OS how to start a Jupyter Notebook if you’re using Anaconda. The actual executable is located at /Users/*YOURUSER*/opt/anaconda3/bin/jupyter-notebook but it can be a pain to either type the full link or even worse start the Anaconda application first just to open a notebook. The easiest way I found is to …

Brew Permissions Error

I recently installed Homebrew on my MacBook and immediately hit permissions issues (I’m running Catalina v 10.15.2 (19C57) and it seems permissions are an issue for many apps). Trying to install wget gave this error. If you look at the permissions on the .config folder you immediately see the problem. By default it’s owned by …