These posts cover a lot of specific macOS topics. I have grown to use a lot of different software that’s only available on macOS. You’ll find loads of information on some low-level topics here that should help you work in a Mac environment.
As I transition my dotfiles configurations over to Nix away from Homebrew & Chezmoi, I found myself elevating my priviledges a lot more than usual. Having to type my password so much lead me to question my life choices and how I can improve things for myself. In my research, I learned about using TouchID for Sudo, but quickly found that it didn’t work in Tmux.
I’ve covered how to automate appearances in macOS before
using the Defaults CLI to check for values in the user defaults system.
While this works well, I’ll show you how you can use launchd to automate
things while using Nix Darwin to manage the functionality without having to
write any XML.
I upgraded to macOS Sonoma recently and it brought my career-long lolcommits setup to a halt! Thankfully troubleshooting and Zsh came to the rescue. But while I solved the issue I was having, I did start to question whether I should keep using this tool while Apple fixes their CLI tools.
macOS-based Night mode supported scripting to update various configurations across different development environment tools including, Alacritty, Tmux, Neovim, Starship, and Bat.
This is a review of the decisions that went into my $PS1
while also discussing some customized fonts using NerdFonts and
iTerm2.
Setting up lolcommits for local selfies from Git commits you make on your machine using your camera. This is geared towards Mac OS X users.