About five months ago, I followed the steps in this article: Use TouchID to Authenticate sudo on macOS via HN so that I could use my fingerprint to complete actions that require sudo privileges. Other than using TouchID to login at the start of my day, I rarely use the

Trying to download a video from YouTube for offline use using youtube-dl and it keeps failing? This article will show you how I fixed it.

Getting a recent version of delv working on macOS is as easy as "brew install bind".

Synopsis Several weeks ago, I noticed that backups from my iPhone had stopped syncing to iCloud. While trying to fix the issue, I encountered the following error messages on the iCloud Backup screen: * The last backup could not be completed because of poor network conditions. * Some files were unavailable during

I recently had to transfer large files on Windows to macOS Catalina (10.15.7) using rsync, but I met a few snags on the way. I already wrote about my experience using rsync for the first time on Windows. This article is the concluding part that delves into the

I recently needed to move several gigabytes of data from an old laptop running Windows 8.1 to another laptop running macOS and my options were to use an external disk or a network transfer. I wanted the whole process to be unattended so I naturally gravitated towards doing the

Note to readers: This is a rejoinder to Matthew Ball's epic 15000-word essay of the same title, published on February 2, 2021. He was gracious enough to reply to my initial concerns on Twitter, and he did stop by to read this. It is not often that someone takes effort