Forty years of the Macintosh operating system, from the memory-protection-free original of 1984, through the Copland death march and the NeXT acquisition that brought Steve Jobs back, to the BSD-and-Mach foundation of Mac OS X and the three processor transitions that ended with Apple Silicon.
Macos
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The Story of Mac OS: From Cooperative Multitasking to Apple Silicon -
macOS for Linux and Windows Switchers The mental model shift from Linux or Windows to macOS — keyboard remapping, window management, filesystem differences, developer setup with Homebrew and zsh, launcher tools, terminal options, and the common frustrations with their solutions.
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macOS Power User Tips and Hidden Features Quick Look extensions, Automator and Shortcuts, Hammerspoon for Lua-powered automation, defaults write for hidden preferences, essential CLI tools (pbcopy, mdfind, caffeinate), Homebrew power user formulae, screen capture workflows, and managing login items and launch agents.
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Software and Encoding: OBS, vMix, and the Mac Mini Picking the production and encoding layer for a live broadcast — OBS Studio vs vMix vs dedicated hardware encoders, running a whole show on an Apple Silicon Mac mini, capture cards, ProPresenter graphics over NDI and Syphon, recording a clean archive while you stream, and when an encoder appliance beats a computer.
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Ghostty Terminal: Mitchell Hashimoto's GPU-Accelerated Terminal A look at Ghostty, Mitchell Hashimoto's GPU-accelerated terminal — where it fits among Alacritty, Kitty, and WezTerm, what its native-UI and zero-config approach gets right, and whether it should be your daily driver.
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Tiling Window Managers in 2026: Hyprland, Aerospace, and the End of the Linux Ghetto Tiling window managers have left the Linux ghetto — Hyprland on Wayland and AeroSpace on macOS bring keyboard-driven tiling to the mainstream. What they do, how they differ, and how to actually adopt one in 2026.