macOS Setup
A record of the software, fonts, and command-line tools needed to turn a freshly installed Mac into a machine ready for everyday work, development, and writing.
Notes on making, living, and imagining.
Technical writing, essays, and fiction about the systems we build, the lives around them, and the worlds we imagine.
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Turn Zsh startup files, the Homebrew environment, completion, history, plugins, and the prompt on macOS into a maintainable personal configuration.
Surge Proxy Configuration
A practical breakdown of DNS, proxy policies, remote proxies, policy groups, and traffic rules in a Surge profile, including Tailscale support, a sanitized template, verification steps, and security guidance.