macOS
I do wish to expand my horizons and try out Linux more. I doubt I will ever be able to move to another operating system as I have too much invested in optimizing and using macOS but I do want to take the best of all worlds. Linux is open source, has an increasingly large community of users and developers and one thing that I love about UNIX systems is that by using these systems you effectively become a developer. Because otherwise you are simply missing out on the full experience.
Clean install
You can clean install by going to Recovery mode (restart with
cmd+r pressed). Then Disk Utility > Select disk > Erase (Format it) > Close Disk Utility > Select option Reinstall MacOS (Choose macOS ver. to install).Notes
- In save dialogues I can press these keys:
Returnor⌘ + S= SaveESC= Cancel
- I can also press
/or~to quickly go to some directory from a save dialogue. And I can press⌘ + ↑to go toparent directory. - Recovery mode: Power off the machine, press the power button and immediately hold Cmd-R.
- I can appreciate someone wanting to do a clean install if they've installed and removed many apps and just want to clear out everything spread around all the system and hidden folders, even if it doesn't really affect performance and won't save a ton of disk space. There is something cathartic about a clean install.
/usr/local/binis a good place to put raw binaries available in the path, that are not installed with Nix.- To code sign binaries ad hoc, run
codesign -s - <path_to_binary>. This will give users a gatekeeper warning but they could still run the binary. To sign so users can run binary without warning, you need Apple developer account.
Code
macOS Defaults
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# Remove dock animation. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/6xg9xq/tip_of_the_day_one_thing_i_cant_live_without_in/
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defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
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defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4
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killall Dock
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# Revert
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defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay
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defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier
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killall Dock
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# Turn internal keyboard off. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5044946?answerId=26556362022#26556362022
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sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext/
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# Turn internal keyboard on
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sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext/
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Links
- Control Mac Keyboard Brightness - Programmatically flash the keyboard lights and control display brightness on Macs.
- AppUpdater - Simple app-updater for macOS, checks your GitHub releases for a binary asset once a day and silently updates your app.
- BlockBlock - Continually monitors common persistence locations and displays an alert whenever a persistent component is added to the OS.
- mas-cli - Simple command line interface for the Mac App Store. Designed for scripting and automation.
- BlackHole - Modern MacOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
- Icons.app - App for macOS which is designed to generate consistent sized icons of an existing application in various states, jiggling (shaking) etc.
- Syphon - macOS technology to allow applications to share video and still images with one another in realtime, instantly.
- Apple Platform Versions - Recent history of platforms developed by Apple, including Apple-managed build tools for these platforms.
- Rudolph - Control server counterpart of Santa, and is used to rapidly deploy configurations to Santa agents.
- macOS Security Compliance - Open source effort to provide a programmatic approach to generating security guidance.
- perfrecord - macOS-only command line CPU profiler that displays the result in the Firefox profiler.
- vz - Create virtual machines and run Linux-based operating systems in Go using Apple Virtualization.framework.
- node-mac-userdefaults - Native Node.js module that provides an interface to the user’s defaults database on macOS.
- macOS Optimizer - Shell scripts to speed up your mac boot time, accelerate loading, and prevent unnecessary throttling.
- Entitlement AND Hardened Runtime Check - Python3 script for macOS to check for binaries with problematic/interesting entitlements.
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