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Jabarabo / githubpull.md
Last active April 1, 2026 16:26
Gist of a stolen gist
@ponimas
ponimas / mojave.sh
Last active July 12, 2025 13:16
disable unnecessary mojave services
# Disable / Enable Dashboard
# Settings / Mission control / Dashboard (selector) - Off
# or
# completely disable:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES; killall Dock
# enable again:
#defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO; killall Dock
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001
@pmkay
pmkay / top-brew-packages.txt
Last active March 6, 2026 06:42 — forked from r5v9/top-brew-packages.txt
Top homebrew packages
node: Platform built on V8 to build network applications
git: Distributed revision control system
wget: Internet file retriever
yarn: JavaScript package manager
python3: Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
coreutils: GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
pkg-config: Manage compile and link flags for libraries
chromedriver: Tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers
awscli: Official Amazon AWS command-line interface
automake: Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
@blackgate
blackgate / mbp2011-disable-amd-gpu.md
Last active June 11, 2025 10:32
Macbook Pro 2011 - Disable AMD GPU
@windyinsc
windyinsc / createinstallmedia.md
Last active April 8, 2026 06:56
Create a bootable installer for macOS

Create a bootable installer for macOS

The following instructions were predominantly sourced via this Apple Support Document.

With macOS, you can use a USB flash drive or other removable media as a startup disk from which to install macOS. These advanced steps are intended primarly for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line.

The final executable command(s) are found within Section III. Final macOS Executable Commands labled as Full Example or Full Example w/Options. I personally use the w/Options command which include both the --nointeraction and &&say Installation commands.

I. Overview

@rudelm
rudelm / autofs.md
Last active April 6, 2026 08:22
Use autofs on Mac OS X to mount network shares automatically during access

Autofs on Mac OS X

With autofs you can easily mount network volumes upon first access to the folder where you want to mount the volume. Autofs is available for many OS and is preinstalled on Mac OS X so I show you how I mounted my iTunes library folder using this method.

Prepare autofs to use a separate configuration file

autofs needs to be configured so that it knows where to gets its configuration. Edit the file /etc/auto_master and add the last line:

#
# Automounter master map
#

+auto_master # Use directory service

@L422Y
L422Y / osx_automount_nfs.md
Last active February 23, 2026 11:25
Automounting NFS share in OS X into /Volumes

I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out automounts of NFS shares in OS X...

Somewhere along the line, Apple decided allowing mounts directly into /Volumes should not be possible:

/etc/auto_master (see last line):

#
# Automounter master map
#

+auto_master # Use directory service

@walesmd
walesmd / IconServiceAgent.md
Last active April 18, 2025 13:38
A lot of people are having issues with com.apple.IconServicesAgent. Since this is a very new issue, Google was no help and `man iconservicesd` is even more hilarious. I eventually fixed it, when I was working on a completely different issue (that is still not fixed). The instructions are below and on the Apple Support Forum, https://discussions.…

I was chasing down another issue (slow "Save As") and thought these two issues may have been related (with QuickLook being the common broken link). Unfortunately, my "Save As" dialog is still miserably slow on the initial load; but IconServicesAgent hasn't gone above 30MB and he rarely makes an appearance in the Console!

Some of these steps may not be necessary, but here are all of the steps I took that inadverdently put IconServicesAgent back in its place. Note: all commands are a single-line, if they appear to be multiple that's just the forum formatting.

  1. Check for any QuickLooks related .plist files. In a terminal: mdfind com.apple.quicklook. -name .plist

  2. I only had files at the system level (specifically within /System/Library/LaunchAgents/). If you have others, modify the directions below to take that into account (re-introducing plist files from the system level back up to the user).

  3. Make some temporary directories to store these plist files, just in case: mkdir ~/tmp-quicklook

@cliss
cliss / organize-photos.py
Created October 6, 2013 14:43
Photo management script. This script will copy photos from "~/Pictures/iPhone Incoming" into a tree the script creates, with folders representing month and years, and photo names timestamped. Completely based on the work of the amazing Dr. Drang; see here: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/10/photo-management-via-the-finder/ You can see more…
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import os, shutil
import subprocess
import os.path
from datetime import datetime
######################## Functions #########################
@tvwerkhoven
tvwerkhoven / rsync_backup.sh
Last active July 5, 2023 05:30 — forked from necolas/rsync_backup
Improved script: - Check if run as root - Clarify rsync(1) flags - Add --inplace for performance, extra preservation flags - Check bless(8) target before setting Improved exclusion file: - Included files listed by Carbon Copy Cloner
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script backups an OS X system to an external volume, effectively
# cloning it. It is based on [0], [1] and [2] for OS X and [3] and [4] for
# Linux. One could also use commercial tools like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy
# Cloner. The latter website has an interesting list[5] on what files to
# exclude when cloning.
#
# Exclusions (from CCC[5]), see rsync_excludes_osx.txt
#