I had to mail something at the Post Office, so (and here is that yak thought moment) I might as well mail something else, so I need to print a label for it, and a return label too.

I dust off the Brother QL-500 Label Printer, I change the paper. The software for it has been deleted. I download it from the brother website, it requires the computer to be restarted. After the restart, I install the new P-touch printing software and, after a little bit of fiddling with the paper size, it works perfectly for the first time in a year.

All this Yak Shaving could have been avoided with a suitable regimen of Yak Prep.

I'm very happy to have the label printer up and running again, though.


$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy


The one-liner above copies your public key to the Mac clipboard.