Why I Moved My Non-Apple Development Off macOS and Into a Debian VM

I use my Mac for everything important: personal communication, banking, work, and iOS development. Over time, I realized I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable installing general development tooling directly on it. The issue wasn’t any single tool. It was cumulative. macOS does not have a native, first-party package management model comparable to Debian’s APT. Once you […]

How to verify SHA or MD5 checksum on macOS

For sha256: $ shasum -a 256 MacPass-0.7.9.zip -c MacPass-0.7.9.sha256 For sha1: $ shasum -a 1 MacPass-0.7.9.zip -c MacPass-0.7.9.sha1 For sha512: $ shasum -a 512 MacPass-0.7.9.zip -c MacPass-0.7.9.sha512 For md5: $ md5 MacPass-0.7.9.zip -c MacPass-0.7.9.md5 Ertuğrul HarmanI’m a US-based software engineer with a background in law. I share mostly practical tech notes here for my future […]

Save file location of Rise of the Tomb Raider [Mac]

Save file location of Rise of the Tomb Raider [Mac]: Go to this folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/Rise of the Tomb Raider/SaveData Double click to the Steam Saves shortcut. This will take you to a path like this: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata/199999996/300000/remote You will find your save data in that folder. Ertuğrul HarmanI’m a US-based software engineer with […]