Kittsteiner Blog

Tag: macOS

  • Secure input may break things

    After updating to macOS 27 and the current version of my password manager, I noticed that Rocket often doesn’t work anymore. The trigger key to open the emoji picker just didn’t trigger anymore.

    Turns out, my password manager enabled secure input as soon as it’s locked, but the app is still running. I don’t know whether this comes from the update of the password manager itself or if it’s a changed behavior of macOS 27. However, at least the guys of my password manager (Enpass) are working on it according to my support ticket.

  • TIL: Finding new devices in LAN required for ping

    TIL (actually, it was yesterday): Disallowing the terminal on macOS to find devices on the local network prevents them from connecting to new local devices on the network. However, if you were already connected to them before, these connections work fine.

    Response in the terminal for pinging new devices is just a “Now route to host”.

  • Automatically synchronize documents with Paperless-ngx on macOS

    On the one hand, I use a rather classic local file structure to manage my documents, but also use Paperless-ngx to manage them (and especially for search). Thus, I want to keep my local structure, but also automatically upload the documents in Paperless-ngx.

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  • 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.