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Create Root CA (Done once)

Create Root Key

Attention: this is the key used to sign the certificate requests, anyone holding this can sign certificates on your behalf. So keep it in a safe place!

openssl genrsa -des3 -out rootCA.key 4096

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

Manage Neovim plugins (and more!) with Nix and Home Manager

Highly extensible software like Emacs, Vim, and Neovim tend to grow their own package managers. A software developer, for example, might want to install editor plugins that hook into a particular programming language's linter or language server. The programmer's text editor is therefore extended to support managing additional software to extend the text editor. If this loop continues for too long, the programmer's editor becomes more delicate and complex. The remedy for this problem is to manage software using dedicated tools apart

Digital Car Key:

Has three sections.

defaults: {
    “com.apple.MobileBluetooth.debug” =     {
        ExtraZoningLog =         {
            EnableZoneLogging = 1;
        };
        FWStreamLogging =         {

chroot Environments on macOS

This is a draft.

macOS doesn’t have many of the advanced Linux or UNIX features that have come about in the past 20 years. So getting a proper chroot environment up and running takes a little more work.

	# CREDITS: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-Python-for-Forensics/blob/master/Chapter%2012/wal_crawler.py

	import argparse
	import binascii
	import csv
	import logging
	import os
	import re
	import struct
	import sys

	#!/bin/bash
	# by joevt May 23, 2022

	directblesscmd="/Volumes/Work/Programming/XcodeProjects/bless/bless-204.40.27 joevt/DerivedData/bless/Build/Products/Debug/bless"
	usedirectbless=0
	if [[ -d /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/APFS.framework/Versions/A ]]; then
	if [[ ! -f "$directblesscmd" ]]; then
	echo "# Download and build bless from https://github.com/joevt/bless , then update the path of directbless defined in DiskUtil.sh"
	else
	usedirectbless=1

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- charset utf8 --

	import pyaudio
	import numpy
	import math
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
	import matplotlib.animation

	RATE = 44100

	// How to:
	// 1) Login into https://icloud.com
	// 2) Open the developer tools and execute this code in the console
	// See more @ https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/how-apple-stored-all-your-email-metadata-for-years-on-their-servers-2a61b1a3232d
	const _API_URL='https://p18-mailws.icloud.com/wm/recents';
	const _requestContacts = () => {
	console.warn('Requesting your contacts...');
	return fetch(_API_URL, {
	method: 'POST',
	headers: {

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# ~/.osx — http://mths.be/osx

	# Ask for the administrator password upfront
	sudo -v

	# Keep-alive: update existing `sudo` time stamp until `.osx` has finished
	while true; do sudo -n true; sleep 60; kill -0 "$$" \|\| exit; done 2>/dev/null &