My MacBook Went Offline — So I Ditched Overleaf for TeX64

You know that moment when you're racing against a deadline, your coffee is getting cold, and then your internet cuts out? That was me, last October, with a 120-page thesis that absolutely needed to compile in the next two hours. Overleaf was my life raft until it wasn't. I'd been using Overleaf for years. The cloud-based workflow was slick: write from anywhere, collaborate instantly, no fiddling with build environments. But I was paying for premium, I was dependent on their servers, and apparently, their infrastructure doesn't care about my rural MacBook Air's spotty internet connection. That afternoon, something snapped. I spent 20 minutes hitting "compile," watching it timeout, refreshing, and getting nowhere. Meanwhile, I had all the tools I needed sitting on my machine — MacTeX, a local TeX installation — but no editor that actually made using them pleasant. So I started searching for local-first LaTeX editors for Mac. That's when I found TeX64. The Setup: Easier Than I Expected He