Category: macOS

Apple/macOS-specific tutorials and commentary.

Industry News, macOS

The networking changes coming in macOS 27 — and which workflows might quietly break

Hands typing on a MacBook displaying a web browser — typical macOS development context (photo: Cottonbro / Pexels)

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, …

macOS, Sysadmin, Tutorials

Time Machine to a Linux Samba share: the smb.conf that actually works (vfs_fruit, EA, posix locking)

Apple wants you to buy a Time Capsule, an iCloud subscription, or at minimum a Thunderbolt-attached SSD. None of that helps if you already have a Linux box sitting on your network with a few terabytes of free space. Time …

macOS, Tutorials

Universal Control between Mac and iPad: a working setup, and the diagnostic commands when it stops

An iMac, a MacBook Pro, and an iPad arranged together on a wooden desk with a Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse — typical multi-Apple-device workspace where Universal Control matters (photo: Pixabay / Pexels)

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 …

macOS, Sysadmin, Tutorials

Keep tmux sessions alive across Mac sleep + Wi-Fi changes: ServerAliveInterval vs autossh vs mosh

A hand resting on a laptop keyboard outdoors at a wooden table with trees in the background — visual for the 'close lid, move, reopen, reconnect' workflow that mosh and autossh are designed to make seamless (photo: Jose Hermes Furtunato / Pexels)

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, Sysadmin, Tutorials

macOS launchd: the actual replacement for cron when you want a recurring task on your Mac

Vintage black twin-bell alarm clock next to a blank notebook on a colorful background of scattered wooden numbers — visual for time-based scheduled tasks (photo: Black Ice / Pexels)

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 …