Category Archives: macOS

Spicing Up The oh-my-zsh for AWS CLI

I am working with awscli and gcloud a lot. Sometimes I need to know whether I’m currently working on my lecturing account, or my work account. I’m thinking of a good indicator on which profile account and region I’m working right now. And oh-my-zsh already have that, since I installed it last year ?. This post only discuss on how to prepare the oh-my-zsh to have indicator with AWS Profile.

Key to the sea – CTF Write Up

It takes 14 minutes to read this blog.Updated May 2nd, 2021: adding some clarity on several parts. It’s been a long time since I played my last CTF. Most of the CTFs I played were on the weekend and it was only 24 hours. But this CTF is special because it runs internally. Kinda fun,… Read More »

Hide Your Identity While Online

When I’m on my MacBook Pro, I use command line a lot. Either for casual task, or work related task. Sometimes, I need to access website to detect things while I’m doing my task in Terminal.app. Using curl or wget is inevitable. But some websites are reluctant to show me the proper result, due to… Read More »

Pimping My Shell with oh-my-zsh and Powerlevel10k theme

Realizing that I need more information on my CLI, I decided to pimp my shell more than just colorizing the prompt. I chose zsh and oh-my-zsh. Visit the official Oh-My-ZSH webpage. The installation is pretty much straight forward, simply type this line below on the terminal: sh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)” It will setup the… Read More »

Small Tune in macOS

I usually did these steps when having a newly installed macOS. This post also serves as my personal notes on how to do several things such as:1. Changing the terminal appearance with colorful prompt.2. Finder shows hidden folders/files.3. Changing default folder of Screenshot file 1. Changing the terminal appearance with colorful prompt. 2. Finder shows… Read More »

Make My MBP New Again

I love my old MacBook Pro 15” Retina Display Mid 2012. Old, but still working after 8 years I bought it in 2012. Having this MBP also became my first experience of purchasing an Apple product directly in the Online Apple Store, since I lived in the country where the Official Apple Store does not… Read More »