Category: Apple
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Persistent Touch ID for sudo on macOS
Did you know you can activate Touch ID (or some other biometric) support to authenticate sudo commands on your command line, in a way that survives operating system updates? All you need to do is copy & modify a single file: And it should look like this when you are done: The way I see…
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Basic HomeKit troubleshooting
In general… weird things happen to Apple devices when the network services they depend on (to quickly communicate between each other on your network) are disabled, out-of-date, or in any kind of corrupt or malformed state (which it almost always is). You want to sign in to your routers Admin GUI, and look for the…
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Low framerate in Safari on M1 Mac
I recently noticed that animations in Safari were stuttering pretty badly on my M1 powered 2020 MacBook Air, and dove in to figure out why. I’m a web developer, so I went to work writing a small bit of vanilla JavaScript to monitor requestAnimationFrame which is the API that the window object uses to “paint”…
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PHP is not recommended
The latest version of macOS makes it pretty clear how Apple feels about open web technologies that aren’t JavaScript: