Alireza Bashiri al3rez

macOS Apple-Silicon debloat + performance + dev setup

A single reproducible script (macos-optimizations.sh) capturing a clean-install tune-up on macOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple M-series.

What it does

Dock — curated app set (Raycast, Terminal, Safari, Claude, cmux, ChatGPT, Telegram), tile size 56, no magnification/bounce, scale minimize.
Input — near-instant key repeat, press-and-hold repeats keys.
UI — window/resize/toolbar animations off, save/print sheets pre-expanded.
Finder — animations off, path/status bars, show all extensions, folders first, no .DS_Store on network.
Desktop — widgets off (standard + Stage Manager), click-to-reveal-desktop off.

Running Buzz on Windows

Buzz is built for macOS. The README's quick start assumes Hermit, and Hermit is Unix only, so most of the setup has to be done by hand. Here's what actually worked for me on Windows 11 (26100), plus the failures I hit and what caused them.

Two of these are real bugs, not environment problems, and I've sent fixes upstream. The rest is local setup.

Pairing a DualShock 3 over Bluetooth on modern Linux (BlueZ 5.85) when the sixaxis plugin is broken

On some modern distros (tested: Ubuntu-based, BlueZ 5.85, kernel 7.x) the built-in BlueZ sixaxis plugin silently does nothing — plug the controller in over USB and it never sets the master address, never registers the device, never writes an SDP record. The result is either no connection at all, or a controller that connects and instantly disconnects (js0 flaps), with this in journalctl -u bluetooth:

profiles/input/device.c:hidp_add_connection() Could not parse HID SDP record: No such file or directory (2)

Build a designer-portfolio landing page in React + Tailwind v4 + Framer Motion + @react-three/drei.

HERO

Security Checklist (What can be done in CursorAI & software-level not infrastructure!)

Configuration Security

Detect secrets in code
Identify secrets committed to version control
Flag hardcoded credentials

Authentication & Authorization

Identify missing authentication checks
Detect improper authorization patterns

	[Unit]
	Description=Sync clipboard to mac-mini
	After=graphical-session.target
	PartOf=graphical-session.target

	[Service]
	ExecStart=/usr/bin/wl-paste --watch %h/.local/bin/clipsync-to-mac
	Restart=on-failure
	RestartSec=3

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# ds3-bluez-setup.sh — pair a DualShock 3 / Sixaxis over Bluetooth using pure BlueZ
	# (no sixad). Run with the controller connected via USB cable. Needs sudo.
	#
	# sudo ./ds3-bluez-setup.sh
	#
	# What it does (the 5 steps):
	# 1. Writes this host's adapter MAC into the controller (hidraw report 0xf5)
	# 2. Trusted-but-not-bonded device entry under /var/lib/bluetooth
	# 3. Pre-seeds a correct DS3 HID SDP record in BlueZ's cache (the key fix)

	local wezterm = require("wezterm")
	local action = wezterm.action

	-- Equalize all panes: each column gets equal width, each row within a column gets
	-- equal height. Weights are column/row group counts so mixed split orientations
	-- produce the expected N-ary equal-split layout.
	--
	-- WezTerm's AdjustPaneSize targets the nearest ancestor split in the internal tree,
	-- which may differ from our reconstructed tree (multiple binary trees produce the same
	-- pixel layout). We probe with +1 adjustments to discover which boundary each pane

	local wezterm = require("wezterm")
	local action = wezterm.action

	-- Equalize all panes: each column gets equal width, each row within a column gets
	-- equal height. Weights are column/row group counts so mixed split orientations
	-- produce the expected N-ary equal-split layout.
	--
	-- WezTerm's AdjustPaneSize targets the nearest ancestor split in the internal tree,
	-- which may differ from our reconstructed tree (multiple binary trees produce the same
	-- pixel layout). We probe with +1 adjustments to discover which boundary each pane

	//
	// THIS FILE WAS AUTOGENERATED BY ZELLIJ, THE PREVIOUS FILE AT THIS LOCATION WAS COPIED TO: /Users/al3rez/.config/zellij/config.kdl.bak
	//

	keybinds clear-defaults=true {
	locked {
	bind "Ctrl g" { SwitchToMode "normal"; }
	}
	pane {
	bind "left" { MoveFocus "left"; }