Make a Zip Archive without a .DS_Store file on macOS

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Let’s compress folder (current one) without the .DS_Store file

zip -r <name>.zip . -x "*.DS_Store"

Note! .DS_Store is a file that stores custom attributes of its containing folder, such as the position of icons or the choice of a background image.

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Enable TLS (SSL) database connection and certificate-based authentication

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This note aims to show step by step how to generate a self-signed SAN SSL/TLS certificate on macOS Monterey and then configure a secure connection and certif...

Too many open files error on macOS

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We’re going to increase an ulimit setting on macOS, but first let’s obtain the current limit of file descriptors via ulimit -n.

How to Write to NTFS Drives in macOS Mojave

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In case you use NTFS formatted USB drives on your Mac, you can only open files stored on those drives, but you can’t change those files.

Using Apache Bench for simple load testing

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The following command runs 100 requests in total with 10 concurrent requests to example.com.

Ihor Vyspiansky