The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

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  • display-switch

    Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM switch

  • If you get bored of the polling, there is a tool that does in an event driven way:

    https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch/

  • There is an unofficial Linux kernel module that allows userspace control of brightness (in a similar way to how laptop brightness is controllable):

    https://gitlab.com/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci-driver-linux

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • ddccontrol

    DDC Control

  • MonitorControl

    🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

  • blogophonic-hugo

    Blogophonic – a Hugo blog theme by Formspree

  • I’m using Hugo as the static site generator (it really helps with blogs but I wouldn’t use it for simple presentation webpages).

    I started with the Blogophonic theme but I have heavily edited it since then: https://github.com/formspree/blogophonic-hugo

    Unfortunately I don’t have some pre-made theme that I can share, I mostly improvised with colours and styles that I noticed look good on other websites, then settled on some colour scheme and style using Sass variables that I use all over the place.

  • alinpanaitiu.com

    Personal website

  • Sure, the whole website is open source. This is the file with the colors: https://github.com/alin23/alinpanaitiu.com/blob/master/asset...

    Although I’m not using them all. I just port them from project to project

  • bluekvm

    Make your monitor input follow your Bluetooth keyboard when it attaches to different computers

  • I wrote a little script to do this automatically when your bluetooth keyboard switches between computers. I just updated it to work with m1 Macs based on the recent work.

    See https://github.com/mikecarlton/bluekvm

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