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Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?

When humans explain how to tackle a Mac problem, they usually prefer to use GUI apps when appropriate. AI much prefers you to enter commands into Terminal. This has consequences.

March 11, 2026 Macs, Technology

An A to Z of keys and keyboards: Keyboard commands

How the keyboard can be used for commands, from its reserved keys, to key equivalents, interface controls, and keyboard actions.

December 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

Why do installer packages expire, but apps don’t? Signing certificate and notarization oddities

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App signatures remain valid forever, but Installer packages are different, and their certificates can and do expire. What about notarization though?

February 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to run commands and scripts on Efficiency cores

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Although there doesn’t appear to be any straightforward way to run command tools or scripts only on Efficiency cores, there are ways and means.

September 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Using Finder aliases from the command line with alisma, a new Universal binary

How can you create and resolve Finder Aliases at the command line? And two further utilities you may find helpful for working with Aliases.

September 1, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Using blowhole to write to the log from scripts and apps, with a new Universal binary

How you can write entries in the unified log which are informative, easily retrieved, and extremely simple.

August 31, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Which version is that command tool?

Discovering what has been updated in a macOS update isn’t easy. In the case of command tools, it’s just impossible.

August 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

Catalina crashes non-notarized command tools with a quarantine flag

Do you use third-party command tools? Are you using or planning to use Catalina? This explains how 10.15 changes first run checks on those tools, and their effect on all users.

October 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Are you running macOS before Mojave 10.14.4? Do you use command tools?

Downloading runtime support from Apple can save you wondering why a tool appears to be broken.

August 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Scripting in Swift: Process deprecations

Calling command tools from Swift changes with macOS 10.13 and 10.14 with the deprecation of some of the Process class. Solutions aren’t as clean as they should be.

February 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

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