Posts tagged with “Homebrew”

Installing EFF’s certbot locally on a mac

[Updated 11/17 to reflect deprecation of Let’s Encrypt Mac OSX client.] While it’s preferrable to install Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s certbot* on your hosting environment (so certificate renewal can be automated via cron), you’ll need root access to do so, in order to install dependencies. For those situations where that’s not possible, (such as a site hosted […]

Breaking out of the ZIP-CPGZ loop

I receive a lot of compressed archives, from a wide variety of different users. Those who prefer the command-line (usually other developers) will TAR the directory then GZIP the TAR. Most users are more comfortable with a GUI for archiving and wind up sending a ZIP file. With those it’s usually a quick double-click and […]