cSpell is a spelling plugin for VS Code. Not my favourite, but the only one I found. It isn't particularly well documented though. It avoids spell checking files in .gitignore. To stop that, you need to add "cSpell.useGitignore": false, to your settings
To make a quick voice recording with OS X: open Quick Time Player, under the File menu there is a "New. Audio Recording" entry. It automatically saves .mov files in your Movies folder, which you can then open in Audacity or the editor of your choice.
title some words will change the title of your cmd shell in Window The title will be `some words` instead of `C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe`. Handy if you have a few of them open and can't tell them apart.
Where to put unix based scripts on a Mac without them getting in the way? Simple: create a bin folder in your home directory, and add it to the path: export PATH=~/bin:$PATH