47 Stories To Learn About Macos

Let's learn about Macos via these 47 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Homebrew - Explained in Simple English

So, there are tonnes of jargon, commands, processes that we follow blindly after surfing from the internet without knowing the actual reasons and under the hood processes, that just remain in our short term memory and get purged eventually, thus we don't feel comfortable using or even about discussing in a group about them.

2. How to Make your Rails App Work with the Mac M1 Chip [SOLVED]

Get your rails app running from terminal using the following steps on MacBook M1 Chip.

3. How to Install MySQL 8 on macOS Using Homebrew

A step-by-step guide 📙 on how to install, configure and run MySQL 8 server on macOS using Homebrew 🍺

4. How to Run MacOS on VirtualBox in Less Than 30 mins

How to run macOS in VirtualBox on Linux and Windows?

5. How to Enable Autocomplete (and AI) in your Terminal

Here's how I enhance my terminal with autocomplete and Artificial Intelligence

6. DBngin: Instant Local Server for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis

Docker might be an easy solution as an all-in-one tool for setting up a Local Development Environment. But on the other hand, it eats up a huge portion of your system resources to get up and running, and we hate it when our computer becomes lagging and clumsy.

[7. 7 Reasons Why You Should Switch

To Linux](https://hackernoon.com/7-reasons-why-you-should-switch-to-linux-rp6f3wd6) Your current computer or laptop shows the same performance no longer? This is absolutely no reason to choose new hardware and invest money in buying a cut edge device. We know a much more attractive solution. It is Linux!

8. Installing Virtual Box ON Mac OS

Let's say that just like myself you are in a situation where all you have is a Mac Book Pro, and you have no idea when you will be getting access to a windows system. You want to run Virtual Box, but it turns out that you come across a few issues before you get up and running. In this article we are gonna cover the main issues that arise when installing Virtual Box on a Mac OS.

9. How to Play Xbox Game Pass Games on Mac

There are two ways to enjoy Xbox Game Pass on Mac: cloud gaming and Parallels Desktop. Each option has its pros, cons, and technical considerations.

10. Hellfred or: How I Learned To Automate macOS and Become Hellishly Productive

Hellfred apps are built on top of Hammerspoon so you can automate tasks and boost productivity by programming shortcuts into your daily workflows.

11. 5 Mac Apps with the Largest Service Files

Merely removing apps on Mac OS X is not a hard thing to do: drag & drop or just delete to the Trash. But sometimes after such removal on your Mac, there could be left system files, caches, logs, and other debris – called app leftovers. That is why it is better to use special third-party app uninstallers for removing programs from your Mac with all their service files.

12. Is Ruby Installed On A Mac? How To Check On macOS Catalina and Big Sur

Ruby comes installed on macOS Catalina and Big Sur. Learn how to check for the system Ruby on your Mac.

13. Why Programmers Love Macbooks?

MacOS was first released in 1984, which makes it even older than Windows. At first, it came to light as a graphical user interface, but in 2005 its design and structure were changed to Intel x86 based architecture. Apple’s computers are great pieces of machinery – that’s beyond debate. But why are they so popular among programmers?

14. Leaving Linux for Mac After 15 Years

I’m sorry Linux. It’s not me, it’s you. The “year of the Linux desktop” never came to fruition. It was always next year, year after, some year. Now, it’s almost a running joke.

15. Why TextMate 2 is My Favorite Code Editor for Mac (Part 3)

Comparing the project search and the open quickly feature.

16. Making Apache Superset into a macOS App

Superset puts most heavy work onto the database side, I was thinking is there may be some possibility to have a Superset.app

17. Using a Script to Send Desktop Notifications from Your Linux Terminal

Send visual feedback and reminders from scripts, using notify-send and at commands on Linux. Also how to get MacOS to do it as well, through some jury-rigging.

18. Virtualization and Emulation on MacOS

Want to run Windows, Linux, or any another operating system on your Mac? Here are your options!

19. How to Play any Video Format on Your Mac

Ever come across a situation when your video file won't play on MAC in QuickTime or any other media player due to an unsupported codec? Hope this helps you.

20. How to Set Up Notarization on macOS with Electron Builder and Electron Notarize

Learn how to set up notarization on macOS for Electron apps built with Electron Builder and work around a bizarre issue I’ve experienced with Apple's ANS.

21. Will Ubuntu 20.04 Steal Windows Users

t’s that time of year again, Ubuntu 20.04 is now available. Will this be the release that steals away more Windows users?

22. macOS Ventura's New Privacy and Security Features

23. 6 Things You Need to Make Your Dev Job Fun Again

It's easy to sit down and try to get straight to work, but it's important to have the right tools, extensions, and themes to make you the most productive.

24. Cross Compiling Rust on MacOS to Run as a Unikernel

Most programs on Linux are dynamically linked. So when you are creating a unikernel with OPS out of a linux application OPS goes out and finds all the libraries it's dynamically linked to and throws it onto the disk image. This works well if you are on linux - 99% of everything on linux is dynamically linked.

25. Why TextMate 2 is My Favorite Code Editor for Mac (Part 1)

The best code editor for Mac is TextMate 2. In this article, I will explain my reasons for this by comparing it to other well-known editors.

26. How to Stop Giving Away Money to AWS by Running KubeCF with Kind on MacOS

I've reviewed how to deploy KubeCF on EKS, which gives you a nice, stable deployment of KubeCF, for cost. Now let's run KubeCF on your Mac for free(ish)!

27. Setting Up Apache and PHP from Homebrew on macOS

Learn how to set up a local development environment with Apache and PHP installed from Homebrew running natively on macOS.

28. Deskreen Introduction: Turn Any Device With Browser Into a Secondary Screen

I created Deskreen. It turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer

29. MacOS Window Manager Reviews: Moom vs. Magnet vs. Rectangle

On macOS, the window manager is pretty basic. There are some tools to improve this on macOS. The two I have tried are Moom, Magnet and Rectangle.

30. How To Extend Your Terminal Functionality with zsh and Prezto

For some time now I've been using zsh as my default Unix shell, which is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features from bash, ksh and tcsh. One of my favorite shells is fish shell. It's easy to set-up and many of the features that I use comes pre-installed, as it is not POSIX supported it has a much readable (fish) syntax for scripting.

31. 7 Reasons Your Mac Is Slower Than Mine. And How to Fix It

Do you open your Mac and it takes a forever to wake up? Or are app on your Mac is slower than a Sloth? Do heavy apps crash frequently on your Mac making you lose loads of work?

32. A Linux, Mac and UNIX Tutorial Of The Top 6 Cool Terminal Commands For Beginners

In this tutorial, you'll learn the most common and useful commands that you can run in almost any UNIX-like environment, including Linux and Mac OS X.

33. 8 Best EPUB Readers for Windows and macOS

It is a program that uses for reading books. It is built for Mac and Windows. With an EPUB reader, users can convert EPUB files to pdf documents instantly.

34. How the Top Result In Google Could Be a Scam Website

Jailbreak Checkrain Checkra1n Security Scam Malware

35. MacDroid: Synchronize Android with Mac Easily

MacDroid allows you to move music files, videos, and contacts from your Android device to your Mac.

36. 7 Mac Trackpad Gestures To Help You Become A Superuser

The first time I got my hands on a MacBook, I was 13. I used to do everything to explore macOS. That was when I accidentally noticed that doing certain gestures on the trackpad triggers some actions. Upon some exploring, I found out a list of Mac trackpad gestures and ever since I’ve been using them extensively. They’re super useful.

37. How to Boot macOS Recovery Mode on an Apple Silicone Mac in 5 Steps

The ways to enter into a special recovery boot system in both INTEL and M1 Mac are different. The recovery mode helps the mac user to troubleshoot different errors. On Intel Macs, the method is really simple and easy, you just need to hit the CMD + R during startup to enter into recovery mode.

38. How I Migrated Applications and Data to a New Mac Without Time Machine

Is it possible to migrate between macs using nifty command line tools? Well yes, kind of. Should you do it? Well that is up to you :)

39. The Powerdir  MacOS Bug Could Allow Attackers to Snoop On You

The vulnerability allows malicious apps to bypass privacy preferences. Precisely, it could allow an attacker to bypass the operating system's Transparency, Cons

40. Creating a Crypto Terminal for macOS: Lessons Learned From Expanding Our Product Ecosystem

How we decided to build the best-ever crypto trading terminal for macOS to make technical analysis and scalping easier

41. Why TextMate 2 is My Favorite Code Editor for Mac (Part 2)

Comparing file type detection, color scheme, code highlighting and markdown support

42. How To Run An ETH 2.0 Beacon Node Using The Lighthouse MacOS Client

This article will guide you through running ETH2.0 Beacon Node with Lighthouse client on MacOS if you have barely to 0 experiences with Terminal command lines and you want to spin off Lighthouse Beacon node and join the validator pool on ETH2.0 Beacon chain with Lighthouse client. This guide includes spinning off Nethermind Goerli node.

43. Display Hierarchical Data as List with Search Feature

Recently I faced an interesting task to display hierarchical data as a list for the iOS platform.

44. A Curious Case of Mach-O Executable

This is going to be a low-level article, but I guess you already knew that since you landed here, right?

45. 8 Mac Hacks You Can Use to Stop Wasting Your Machine's Time

Photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash

46. YSK about [Unix tools]

This Slack discussion, featuring myself in some sleep-deprived rambling, occurred in hackernoon's official #protips channel, and has been [barely] edited for readability.

47. Top 25 Employee Monitoring and Time Tracking Apps for Windows/MAC

Many companies today install various tracking apps on their employees’ computers and check if their team members are productive during the working day. Such an extreme approach to monitoring what the staff is doing is due to the lack of employees’ efficiency at the workplace and to the employer’s desire to prevent data leakage and other unwanted actions. Before we go through the list of the most popular and effective programs to monitor employees’ activities at the workplace, let’s take a look at the most efficient ways to find out if your company is monitoring you.

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