Every year a new IDE arrives and developers spend a weekend learning it. New JetBrains release, new VS Code competitor, new AI-powered editor whose pricing model will pivot in 18 months. There’s an alternative: pick a stack of well-aged Unix …
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, …
You have a Mac for writing and design, a Linux laptop for coding, a NAS at home, and a remote VPS for production. The same dotfiles, the same notes, and the same in-progress repo need to be on at least …
You wrote a small CLI tool — a deploy script, a log parser, a backup wrapper. Two coworkers want to use it on their Macs. You email them a tarball. Three months later you fix a bug. Now you have …
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 …
You wrote a small Python script that does something useful — pulls down currency rates, scrapes a forecast, syncs a folder, posts a daily reminder. You want it to run every 15 minutes on your Mac. You read the previous …
You paste a Bash one-liner into Apple Notes for safekeeping. An hour later you copy it back, paste into Terminal, hit Enter, and bash blows up: command not found: 'curl'. The reason: Apple Notes silently turned your straight quotes …
The webcam in your MacBook is fine for hopping on a quick call. The webcam in your iPhone — even an iPhone 12, let alone a recent Pro — is dramatically better. More megapixels, larger sensor, better stabilization, way better …
Apple switched the default macOS shell from bash to zsh in Catalina (2019). Most people changed nothing and have been on zsh ever since for interactive use. But if you look at /etc/shells, run which sh, or open …
Most people use ~/.ssh/config as a glorified shortcut file: Host server with a HostName and a User, save five seconds of typing. That’s the entry point, and it’s fine. But the file is a much more powerful configuration system …