Kittsteiner Blog

Tag: macOS

  • Updated Baïkal and self-host contacts

    I used the Sunday morning to upgrade my Baïkal instance to version 0.11.0 (if you experience issues with the MySQL connection afterwards, make sure to add the new required configuration entry mysql_ca_cert to your config).

    And I also used it to enable CardDAV (previously I solely used it as calendar via CalDAV) and moved all my contacts from iCloud to my own server. This was not as easy as first thought, since importing a list of vCards in the macOS “Contacts” app won’t sync all of them. I ended up using my iPhone to import all of my contacts to my own server.

  • tmutil parameters

    TIL: tmutil delete allows to add the -t parameter multiple times to delete multiple (old) backups at once:

    sudo tmutil delete -d /Volumes/Backups\ of\ Matzes\ M1\ Pro -t 2025-04-13-215640 -t 2025-04-21-095453 -t 2025-04-28-151733Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

    Before, I used multiple commands (since I delete the oldest 4 backups every 6 months manually) and always waited for the next command until the previous one was done …

  • Switched from Transmit to ForkLift

    I just switched from Transmit to ForkLift recently after the latter changed their SSH implementation from libssh2 to OpenSSH, making use of the default SSH configuration of your user.

    This was the main reason to switch for me, as we use a ProxyJump at work and before this implementation change neither one of them was capable of this. However, due to recent changes at work, it’s now mandatory for certain projects (and the plan is to expand it to all of them).

    Aside of that, I immediately noticed that browsing through a remote server is so much faster than before.

    Additionally, it seems that ForkLift has a more active development cycle, already with support for macOS Tahoe.

    The only thing I’m sad about is that there is no favorites importer. Seems to be a manual job, but for me, it’s worth the hassle.