Mac OS X

What actually works when your Apple‑silicon Mac refuses to boot

Apple’s official guide, How to revive or restore Mac firmware, explains how to recover an Apple‑silicon Mac that’s stuck on the support.apple.com/mac/restore screen. Surprisingly, a few critical details are missing and just plain wrong. Even the screenshots are don't look like the current version of macOS.

Here is a random selection of useful things I've found on the macOS that make development easier.  Enjoy!

1. memory clean
2. activity monitor
3. monosnap screen & vidcaps
4. disk utilities - repair permissions.

Various
 

CMD + H to hide the current app

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

multi-select in PHPStorm: cmd-Opt-Shift-A

option (or alt) click on the speaker icon top right to control sound source & dest
 

I'm pretty pleased with this find. It suits my need for low overhead, low learning curve, easy install, stable and predictable. I asked Bing Copilot to write a few things about it:

Pinta is a free and open-source program designed for drawing and image editing. Its primary goal is to provide users with a straightforward yet powerful way to create and manipulate images across various platforms, including *Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD1. Let’s delve into some of its notable features:

So I noticed recently when I ran ps -edalf on my mac that there were a ton of processes that look like this: