macOS

All my posts about various macOS technologies

42 posts

macOS posts from using Apple machines as a daily platform for automation, containers, development, music workflows, and local AI experiments. Expect Homebrew, shell setup, Docker and Podman on Macs, Python environments, dotfiles, and the occasional note from rebuilding the toolbox after another OS upgrade.

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3 Oct 202612 min read

AI Commit Meets Apple's On-Device Model

macOS 27 ships with an fm CLI for Apple's on-device Foundation Model, so I added it to AI Commit as a provider, 8,192-token context window and all.

9 Aug 202610 min read

My Starship Prompt Revisited: Making Blocks Vanish Cleanly

A follow-up to my Starship setup: how I got the status and AI blocks to appear only when they matter, without leaving a powerline stub behind.

13 Jun 202611 min read

Playing with Headroom: Compressing the Context Going to My AI Coding Agents

I spent a few days running Headroom, a local proxy that promises to cut the tokens your AI coding agent sends to the provider. The savings are real, but they're not where the dashboard first makes you think they are.

1 May 202616 min read

Counting the Cost of Vibe Coding

A local-first dashboard for tracking AI coding tool spend across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Gemini CLI - with a TUI, a desktop app, and zero API keys required.

11 Apr 202610 min read

Introducing AI Commit

A Rust CLI I built to stop writing terrible commit messages - aic generates AI-powered commit messages, PR drafts, diff reviews, and repo visualisations from your staged changes.

5 Apr 20266 min read

Introducing Hosts Butler

A terminal-based hosts file manager built in Rust that I wrote to stop manually editing /etc/hosts with a text editor and hoping I didn't break anything.

1 Feb 20268 min read

Introducing ssl-toolkit

A comprehensive SSL/TLS diagnostic tool built in Rust that I created to replace my ever-growing document of random certificate checking notes.

29 Dec 20255 min read

Day to Day Tools, the 2025 edition

The 2025 edition of my day-to-day tools: Ghostty, Claude Code, Google's Antigravity IDE, and the AI services that have become central to how I work.

15 Nov 202510 min read

My Starship Prompt Setup

My full Gruvbox Starship config, plus how to try the built-in presets and swap in Tokyo Night, Nord or Dracula colours without rewriting your starship.toml.