Howard Oakley’s eclectic-light blog flagged this week that the upcoming macOS 27 release brings a non-trivial reshuffle of how the OS handles networking — specifically the deprecation of a few long-standing low-level APIs and a tightening of how routing tables, …
Category: macOS
Apple/macOS-specific tutorials and commentary.
Universal Control between Mac and iPad: a working setup, and the diagnostic commands when it stops
Universal Control is one of the more genuinely magical things macOS does — slide your cursor off the right edge of your Mac and it appears on your iPad, you keep typing without changing keyboards, you drag a file across …
Keep tmux sessions alive across Mac sleep + Wi-Fi changes: ServerAliveInterval vs autossh vs mosh
You SSH into a server, start a long-running build inside tmux, close the laptop lid to walk to lunch, come back fifteen minutes later — and your terminal greets you with Connection to server.example.com closed by remote host. The …
macOS launchd: the actual replacement for cron when you want a recurring task on your Mac
You write a Python script that needs to run every fifteen minutes on your Mac. You add a line to crontab -e, save, walk away. Two days later you check and notice it never ran. The cron file is …