Oftentimes I discover that all the steps I need to do something on my local machine are split across various how-to guides or documentation pages. So I thought I'd collect them all in one place.
Whether I get a new machine or re-install system software from scratch for whatever reason, I start off with installing Xcode and its Command Line Tools:
xcode-select --installand Homebrew.
One of the biggest challenges I encountered in my home setup had to do with using my smart card with a virtual Windows environment.
Previously, when I tried to sign into an authenticated account from my Windows 11 Home VM on Parallels for Mac, I could never get the machine to use my smart card for authentication. I would get error after error, and I could never figure out what was causing the problem.
I tried:
After working in Drupal for close to 10 years, I thought I’d dip my toes into some of the “newer” content management systems out there. What a mistake that turned out to be.
My needs are simple, so I settled on Ghost because it was an open source product I could host myself with a good deal of out-of-the-box functionality.