So playing with themes and colors on the CLI is fun, and when you run across an app like pywal that inspects a picture, and builds a theme around it, it sounds even better.

Until you bork the configs and your macbook’s …

• background goes pitch black and you can’t change it
• menubar goes oddly translucent and you can’t change it
• do a PRAM reset (several actually) and nothing changes

Then this happy thought:

• HOW MUCH of your weekend is now devoted to re-imaging your laptop :(

Then you spend hours searching around for the issue, until you find this:

rm "./Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db"

And you just saved yourself hours of restoring things.