Articles tagged with macos

1. Switching From iTerm2 To Ghostty: What Changes In A Mac Developer Workflow

   Posted on August 14, 2026 in Software

   Move from iTerm2 to Ghostty without losing a productive Mac development workflow by preserving shell habits, validating terminal compatibility, and changing only the parts that improve daily work.

2. Resolving Hard Links Issues in Rsync Backups on Mac OS X

   Posted on June 08, 2024 in System Administration

   Backing up systems efficiently is crucial for data integrity and space management. Using hard links with rsync is a common strategy to conserve disk space. However, macOS can sometimes present challenges with hard links, especially when dealing with external drives. This article revisits the issue of hard links not working …

3. How to Check and Set the macOS Time Zone from the Command Line

   Posted on May 11, 2010 in System Administration

   If a Mac has the wrong time zone, scheduled jobs, log timestamps, calendar notifications, and incident timelines become harder to trust. The fix is simple, but it is worth separating the time zone from the clock itself: setting the zone changes how local time is displayed; it does not fix …

4. macOS SSH Slow to Connect: Troubleshooting IPv6, DNS, and Remote Login

   Posted on September 13, 2009 in System Administration

   SSH should feel boring. You type ssh hostname, the server asks for whatever authentication it needs, and you get a shell. When it pauses for 30, 60, or 120 seconds before anything useful happens, the delay is usually not random. It is almost always name resolution, address-family selection, routing, or …

5. Adding macOS Users Remotely from the Command Line

   Posted on April 11, 2007 in System Administration

   There was a time when adding a Mac OS X user from the command line meant talking directly to NetInfo with nicl, copying a user template with ditto, and hoping you did not fat-finger a UID. That was useful knowledge in 2007. It is also very much not how I …