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I finally switched from Fish to Zsh

I always been a big fan of Fish shell and if you are involved in sysadmin or development you can understand why. Super useful autosuggestion, shiny colors and many other cool features. So why I decided to switch to Zsh? I make an extensive use of terminal for everyday job …

Switch on and off nsurlsessiond on Mac OS

If you use iCloud services, you may have noticed that sometimes your bandwidth is fully saturated by processes called nsurlsessiond or nsurlstorageid; these services take care of syncing your files, photos or contacts with iCloud. It happens that sometimes you can't count on large bandwidth and this is a bit …

Wildcard DNS with Dnsmasq on Mac OS X

A wildcard domain is a domain name that will match requests for non-existent sub-domain names. This is fairly simple with a registered domain name and consist of adding a dns record like *.example.com. For more info about setting up a wildcard public domain name, refer to your domain registrar …