kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

claudiuschan

## This is only run on my MBA with Monterey. Please use this at your own risk.

# Disable all animations.
sudo defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true
sudo defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
sudo defaults write com.apple.dock launchanim -bool false
sudo defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1
sudo defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001
sudo defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0
sudo defaults write QLPanelAnimationDuration -float 0

SMUsamaShah

These are VMs running built with JavaScript/WASM allowing you to run an operating system within your browser, all client side.

Emulators

VMs

1. https://copy.sh/v86/
2. https://webvm.io/
3. https://bellard.org/jslinux/
4. https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ (https://github.com/jsdf/pce)

rinsuki

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>PayloadContent</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>PayloadDescription</key>
			<string>Disable Apple Music in Music.app</string>
			<key>PayloadDisplayName</key>

sarthakpranesh

# I use MacOS VMs from github for iOS development.
# By no suprise they are a bit slow and have a lot of things I don't use
# Hence this script for lighter and better VM for my iOS development and builds
# GUI and animation related things to tweak
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001
defaults write -g QLPanelAnimationDuration -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock launchanim -bool false
sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0

nothub

b0gdanw

# Credit: pwnsdx https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/1217727ca57de2dd2a372afdd7a0fc21; nebular https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/d87b034c4c0210b988040ad2f85a68d3#gistcomment-3019082

# IMPORTANT: Don't forget to logout from your Apple ID in the settings before running it!
# IMPORTANT: You will need to disable SIP: Reboot to Recovery, in Terminal csrutil disable

# WARNING: It might disable things that you may not like. Please double check the services in the TODISABLE vars.

# Get active services: launchctl list | grep -v "\-\t0"
# Find a service: grep -lR [service] /System/Library/Launch* /Library/Launch* ~/Library/LaunchAgents
# List disabled services: launchctl print-disabled user/501 |grep true & launchctl print-disabled system |grep true

dvf

If you're using a high-end bluetooth headset on your Macbook Pro it's likely your mac is using an audio codec which favors battery efficiency over high quality. This results in a drastic degradation of sound, the SBC codec is the likely culprit, read more about it here.

Find out what codec you're using

1. Play a song on your headphones
2. Option (⌥) click the Bluetooth button at the top of your screen
3. If you're using AAC or aptX, you can stop here—those are the highest quality codecs.

Change your codec to AAC or aptX

cliss

cask_args appdir: "/Applications"
tap "homebrew/cask-fonts"

brew "mas"

#### LAPTOPS ####
#cask "tripmode"
#### LAPTOPS ####

mas "Boop", id: 1518425043

Jabarabo

Awesome Piracy

A curated list of arrrrrrrrr!

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