Building a macOS Server hackintosh with an Intel NUC

Last week I built a hackintosh server for macOS server. This machine replaces an old Intel Atom server running Ubuntu. Hardware For this project I bought an Intel NUC 6i3SYH with 8GB DDR4 ram and a Western Digital 256GB m2 SSD. The box version of the NUC allowed me to add another 2,5″ SATA disk […]

Running Caddy as a service on macOS X server

Installing Caddy Download Caddy from the official website. Give the executable root permissions1: $ chown root ./caddy $ chmod +s ./caddy Caddyfile Caddy reads it configuration for the Caddyfile. More information can be found in the official documentation. Launchd config Create a launchd plist file: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.caddyserver.web.plist. This file should look like this: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> […]

Exporting messages and attachments from iPhone to Mac

Yesterday I accidentally deleted an important sms conversation from my Mac (for which I didn’t have a Time Machine backup). I thought it would be fairly easy to copy all my messages from my iPhone to my Mac, but it wasn’t that easy… This guides helps you copy all your messages from iOS to OS […]

Getting a Mac ready for development

Apple computers are awesome: they are fancy machines which make your daily life easier. But every developer knows that there are a lot of things to install and configure before you can actually start programming. This guide is an overview of how I configure my Mac for development. I’m sure everyone has his own habits […]

Migrating/updating from PHP 5 to PHP 7 on OS X (MacPorts)

PHP 7 was released earlier this month, time for me to upgrade my development environment to keep up to date with this new version. I had already installed PHP 5.6 using MacPorts, so this guide is about upgrading a PHP 5 installation to a PHP 7. If you need help for actually installing PHP/Apache/MySQL, read this […]

Mac: Terminal venster maximaliseren

Wanneer je op Mac OS X het Terminal venster maximaliseert zal dit venster niet steeds het hele scherm vullen. Onderaan en rechts van het scherm zal er wat ruimte overblijven. Dit komt omdat het Terminal venster met rijen en kolommen werkt, en dus niet per pixel zal vergroten/verkleinen, maar per rij.   Na veel geëxperimenteer […]

Apple Mountain Lion Dock in CSS

Vele Apple-fanaten willen hun site een Mac look geven. Wat in zo’n design zeker niet mag ontbreken is natuurlijk de dock uit Mac OS X. Voor een Apple gerelateerde website, wilde ik dan ook zo’n dock gebruiken voor het menu. Op denbeke.be had ik dat al langer, maar deze dock was niet meer veranderd sinds […]