Posts tagged #macos
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When `*.ts.net` won't resolve: brew tailscaled and macOS split-DNS
MagicDNS works through Tailscale's resolver but not through the system. Why the brew-installed tailscaled silently skips the split-DNS rule the App Store build sets up, and the one-line fix.
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Why my Colima LaunchAgent refused to load: a Sequoia provenance story
A reboot test on a headless Mac surfaced an opaque launchd error that traced back to a months-old architectural decision and a SIP-protected extended attribute most people never see.
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Making a Mac Mini headless: FileVault, auto-login, and launchd
How I got a Mac Mini to boot to a fully remote-accessible state without physical presence — FileVault disabled, auto-login configured, and Tailscale launchd tuned for network wait.
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`E[2 q`: when tmux quoting silently eats your ESC byte
Random characters dribbling into your terminal? It's an escape sequence that lost its ESC byte upstream. In tmux, this often comes from how `\E` is quoted in `terminal-overrides`.
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tmux + SSH: work survives dropped connections
Configure tmux to auto-spawn sessions on SSH login and tune terminal defaults so your terminal state persists across any network interruption — airport, flight, hotel WiFi, whatever.
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Caddy to Tailscale serve: the quiet TLS win for tailnet services
I spent an evening fighting Caddy on macOS for tailnet TLS. Then I deleted Caddy, ran one Tailscale command, and was done in two minutes.
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Colima with vz on macOS: the quirks worth knowing
Five gotchas that cost me an evening setting up Colima with the vz backend as a real workhorse — not a dev convenience, but where actual services run.