After attempting to get my brand-new Raspberry Pi up and running, I encountered some issues that others may face along the road. The Raspberry Pi Zero I am using has this Wi-Fi dongle, though I highly recommend this one. The assumption of this article is that you have some experience using macOS Terminal, though minimal knowledge is required.
A good guide for configuring a headless Raspberry Pi Zero is this article written by David Maitland. Unfortunately, his method did not work for me, something I hope to amend through this article. I will be building off much of what David said so that others running macOS may see greater successes.
This was a difficult process for myself because I lacked any of the tools necessary to normally set up a Raspberry Pi. I did not have any displays, cables, keyboard, mice, access to the router – the only items at my dispo