With the introduction of Apple Silicon, macOS became much more strict about running unsigned binaries. It even refuses to execute them in Terminal. This can be frustrating as many precompiled tools, once easily downloadable from sources like GitHub, may no longer work as expected.
By default, if yo…
A little under a year ago I wrote a walkthrough: Set up a Self Signed Certificate on macOS's Built in Apache.
Recently a new tool showed up called mkcert has come and made life way easier.
It's a wonderful tool that instead of building Self-Signed Certificates, sets your local machine up with a ce…
I recently purchased a .app domain for a side project; .app domains are interesting as they require SSL at all times.
I like to set up my dev environments as subdomains of my actual domain, such as local.donatstudios.com. It makes working with CORS and cookies a lot simpler for applications with A…
In that same time range I had a handful of Apps purchased from the App store suddenly and mysteriously stop working. They just quit. No dialog, no error mesasage, nothing at all. Apps I paid for and depend on just stopped working.
The thing they all these Apps have in common is they are no longer a…
I have a quite large iTunes library, and I’m rather anal about keeping my metadata clean and up to date. In an earlier release of iTunes 12 there was a bug. Every so often after a song played, the Play Count would fail to increment, but the Last Played would update.
Searching my library, I found 7…
Should you run into errors related to missing php.h or other .h files, you should check out my post on fixing missing headers on macOS Mojave.
These directions are for working with the native installation of PHP. Your results may vary if you are using a brew, MAMP or otherwise installed version of…
Every time I would upgrade OS X it took probably 45 minutes of fiddling with my Apache configuration to get it working properly. I'm writing this article in the hopes of saving myself and others some time.
The Setup
For the following examples, {username} represents your username.
Firstly, if you…
A little over a year ago I wrote a post about using Beyond Compare on Mac via Wine. A native version is now in beta and open to everyone! If you haven't tried Beyond Compare, I suggest you do. If you have you already know how awesome it is.
I've been testing the Alpha for many months now and thoug…
Please Note
This tutorial only covers the default PHP installation that ships with Mac OS X / macOS. If you have installed a new installation this does not cover you.
For those using brew, you can simply brew install the appropriate brew formula for the extension.
These directions are verified t…
I switched from Windows to Mac for work a little over a year ago (I've been using Macs at home for years) and there is one program I still could not live without - Scooter Software's wonderful Beyond Compare. I've tried every single diff tool available and none have lived up to Beyond Compare. It t…
When I switched from an older MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air the backup from my old MacBook Pro was corrupted and unmountable. However, I had preserved a backup of my Photo Booth Photos and wanted the Photo Booth application to recognize them. This is just a matter of creating a Recents.plist, an orde…
