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Tag: MacOS

  • Mac Mini FOMO

    Macs are becoming harder to get, with delivery estimates running up to months. Yesterday, price increases were announced.

    I have been tinkering in Xcode and plan to ship a stupid niche app soon. But I did not test it on Tahoe or Golden Gate yet. I wonder if that would pass app review.

    I still have some Intel Macs lying around, but they wont run the new Mac OS Golden Gate beta. So maybe I should just get a Mac Mini while I can 😬.

    Update 2026.06.25: It happened. Grabbed a Mini before they applied the update.

  • macOS Tahoe astigmatism

    screenshot of macOS Tahoe icons with double, fuzzy borders, like what people with astigmatism see without correction

    These macOS Tahoe icons instantly give me astigmatism haedache

  • Tailscale killed my DNS

    I am working on a remote location today, on a shared venue network.

    After rebooting my Mac I could no longer connect to any website domain, which led me to believe that DNs was not resolving. And indeed, pinging www.google.com gave no results. Even when tethered to my iPhone, I could not connect to any website. Connecting to VPN by IP did work though, and pinging 8.8.8.8 worked fine as well.

    Luckily, I could search for clues on my phone, and ran into this command that I have not used before:

    scutil --dns which gives you a nice list of DNS resolvers as they are used by the system, and, on top of that list this entry:

    resolver #1
  search domain[0] : tailf67a92.ts.net
  nameserver[0] : 100.100.100.100
  if_index : 24 (utun4)
  flags    : Supplemental, Request A records, Request AAAA records
  reach    : 0x00000003 (Reachable,Transient Connection)
  order    : 102000

    I restarted Tailscale, and we are online again 🎉.