Category: MacOS

  • Capturing MacOS Settings Changes

    Capturing MacOS Settings Changes

    Let me get this right out. I upgraded to MacOS 15 beta and it totally borked my machine. I had to do a full, fresh reinstall. Totally my fault, and I should have prepared better. So now, I’m trying to remember to capture my personal settings so I can use a shell script to restore…

  • Macbook Battery Stats in Your ZSH Terminal Prompt

    Macbook Battery Stats in Your ZSH Terminal Prompt

    Discover how to transform your ZSH terminal prompt into a dynamic battery monitor for your MacBook, offering real-time status updates with every command.

  • Quick Tip: HyperDock as a Service

    Quick Tip: HyperDock as a Service

    A macOS tool called HyperDock has been causing issues on macOS Catalina, with random stops requiring manual re-enabling. A script has been created to restart the HyperDock Helper automatically using a Login Item. This script monitors and restarts the Helper when it crashes, providing a workaround for the problem.

  • Dynamic Tea House

    Dynamic Tea House

    Not too long ago, a coworker shared that they had created a WordPress Dynamic Wallpaper for macOS. I thought this was just cool, so I eventually made one of my own with my favorite dynamic set of images: the Tea House theme from Gmail. Now, these classic Gmail themes are all but lost to history,…