Reading stdout/stderr output of Windows GUI apps

Legacy Intel games on macOS 27 Golden Gate

Mac apps/games that are only available as Intel binaries and no native Apple Silicon support are a ticking time bomb as Rosetta is going to be deprecated. The first developer beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate is released today, and I tried it out on a test machine to

Reduce Little Snitch connection alerts when launching Steam games

Little Snitch is an application firewall for macOS and I find it useful to audit outgoing network connections from my computer. The Alert mode prompts can be a bit annoying when setting up a new app, but this is usually one-time and not a hassle on day-to-day

Fix Google Pay not working on Chrome

I encountered a weird problem that clicking a "Buy with Google Pay" button flashes a Processing dialog and immediately closes/fails. Stranger that Safari was working fine, while Chrome remains broken for me for several weeks. 0:00 /0:03 1× Opening the browser console reveals a hint:

Fix constant UAC prompts whenever launching a Steam game

Sometimes when you launch a Steam game, there will be a User Account Control prompt from Windows asking about Steam Client Service. This is to install any prerequisites such as Visual C++ or DirectX (why are these not preinstalled on Windows 11 already) However, I am constantly getting UAC prompts