January 2018

@lapcatsoftware @nicklockwood Yep, Apple made a last-minute decision not to make Swift ABI stable for iOS 9.

11:29 AM, Jan 31st, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@elkmovie Yeah. Height is an issue, too. If controls don’t all fit on screen at once, the layout should suggest tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

11:27 AM, Jan 31st, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to elkmovie

@elkmovie Yet? Please don’t. Just because Apple seems to ignore the 4-inchers when testing its designs…

11:04 AM, Jan 31st, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to elkmovie

@nurtopsc Thanks, but that doesn’t seem to be the issue in my case. My iCloud address is already checked on all devices.

11:00 AM, Jan 31st, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nurtopsc

@rosyna @simX @dougrustle Yes, because recent iPhone CPUs have greater power demands than Android phones or older i… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

9:10 AM, Jan 31st, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rosyna

@jgordonshare I have no answers for iMessage. :(

9:11 PM, Jan 30th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@jgordonshare Pretty sure it’s a longstanding issue that predates messages in the cloud.

8:16 PM, Jan 30th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@bdougherty Or the one where you do a search, select the URL in the address bar, choose Copy, and it copies the que… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

7:53 PM, Jan 30th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to bdougherty

@simX @dougrustle It’s not normal wear and tear if certain models were designed with too-small batteries, causing e… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:22 PM, Jan 30th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to simX

@simX I guess the argument is that public companies are not allowed to report false information to shareholders, an… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:05 PM, Jan 30th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to simX

@lapcatsoftware It sounds like officially it’s all one team so everyone is working on everything. But, yeah, surely… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

2:50 PM, Jan 30th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@lapcatsoftware Also, Apple seems to have a habit of moving people around to create new OSes/subsystems/features. S… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

2:43 PM, Jan 30th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@jsnell You’re probably right about the point of it, though, which is too bad because I want a small 8/X.

6:03 PM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to jsnell

@jsnell I mean that wireless charging may come to be seen as an essential feature. Does it add much to the cost?

6:01 PM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to jsnell

@jsnell If it’s going to stick around for another 2 years, wouldn’t lack of wireless charging really stick out?

5:02 PM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jsnell

@gparker @jckarter @pedantcoder @stephentyrone Unless you want to start a thread?

3:34 PM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to gparker

@lapcatsoftware Every step of the way there are people in Apple telling us that what it looks like they’re doing is… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:33 PM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@kcase Will there be support for the current zero-or-one folder-type workflow?

3:30 PM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to kcase

@kcase My worry about losing contexts is that currently I like to move actions from one to the other. With tags (in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:30 PM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to kcase

@peternlewis Why? When you have a lot of files and a few you keep going back to, and you don’t want lots of tabs…

9:42 AM, Jan 29th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to peternlewis

@mattbirchler Yes, there were a lot of popular ones for less than $200.

10:46 AM, Jan 28th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mattbirchler

@felix_schwarz @iljawascoding @lapcatsoftware Sounds like that will make a lot of things unnecessarily difficult. D… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:31 PM, Jan 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to felix_schwarz

@bob_burrough Syntactic prejudice and all the consequences of being a C superset for the 99% of the time that’s not needed.

1:42 PM, Jan 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bob_burrough

@bob_burrough The world didn’t need a new language for teaching programming. But I think it’s pretty clear Apple ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

1:30 PM, Jan 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bob_burrough

@chartier @stroughtonsmith @JessiChartier @cornzippers @mobilemakers I like Swift and am happy about it being in cl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

1:26 PM, Jan 26th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to chartier

@marcoarment And then your AppleCare runs out.

12:02 PM, Jan 25th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to marcoarment

@nickheer Yeah, I found that surprising. I wonder whether it comes off in print the way he meant. Thanks for the link.

6:44 PM, Jan 24th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nickheer

@jacobgorban Fixed; thanks!

4:20 PM, Jan 24th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jacobgorban

@hisaac I tried it maybe 5 years ago. It had some good features but felt very foreign to me. There were some things… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

9:59 AM, Jan 24th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to hisaac

@isaiah Perhaps. In my case, it worked fine for months after updating to High Sierra and then broke today for no ob… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

4:18 PM, Jan 23rd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to isaiah

@_thisisnorm @zcichy Could be what they think, I guess. So in 5 years when they have a library of great exclusive c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

1:00 PM, Jan 23rd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to _thisisnorm

@nibroc Sorry to see you go. Thanks for everything.

12:54 PM, Jan 23rd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nibroc

@zcichy Exactly. Why are they doing it if it’s neither part of their mission nor strategic? Because they want “services revenue”?

12:50 PM, Jan 23rd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to zcichy

@helje5 I would prefer a good old plain text mailing list…but this does let you read/search/reply from within a native mail client.

8:19 PM, Jan 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to helje5

@helje5 Mailing list mode: mjtsai.com/blog/2018/01/2…

8:03 PM, Jan 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to helje5

@jgordonshare No, I used Aperture Exporter, which bakes in the edits. (Not ideal, but wasn’t going to redo thousand… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:33 AM, Jan 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@jgordonshare Very time consuming, but otherwise not bad.

10:17 AM, Jan 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@jgordonshare Lightroom.

10:14 AM, Jan 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@rob_rix No .services. I guess it’s from /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PhotoLibraryPrivate.framework/Versions/A… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

9:32 AM, Jan 22nd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rob_rix

@andrewabernathy Yep. The phone is part of the same conversation, and some of the messages go to it and others don’t.

7:20 PM, Jan 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to andrewabernathy

@jgpmolloy @mcelhearn I think it’s relevant to understanding his perspective. For example, I wouldn’t put as much s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:20 PM, Jan 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgpmolloy

@mpweiher I don’t know. The path seems to be ASCII…

3:16 PM, Jan 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mpweiher

@mcelhearn Does Tim Cook himself know coding?

9:28 AM, Jan 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

@meekgeek Plus, Apple didn’t actually include that quoted text in the release notes: mjtsai.com/blog/2018/01/1…

8:29 AM, Jan 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to meekgeek

@OhMDee Interesting. I don’t have a screenshot, but I’m pretty sure the prompt on my iPhone did not say that. I did… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

4:34 PM, Jan 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to OhMDee

@dentarg_ @backblaze It was possible before, but large files were excluded by default. The linked page makes it sou… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

2:24 PM, Jan 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to dentarg_

@lapcatsoftware My understanding is that you have to enter an admin password to get to the point where the non-admi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

1:12 PM, Jan 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@lapcatsoftware I guess. Not sure how that could cause this specific problem unless an old cache file was restored… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

11:44 AM, Jan 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@notio The Comcast Internet-only plan has always had a terrible rate. The plan with TV (even if you never hook it u… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

11:41 AM, Jan 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to notio

@lapcatsoftware Sorry about that. Not sure why it seemed to have reverted to an older page after properly updating… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

11:37 AM, Jan 19th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@AHJ87 @zcichy The funny part about this is that the “power management” was retroactively added to the release note… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

7:41 PM, Jan 18th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to AHJ87

@Schwieb Congrats!

2:08 PM, Jan 18th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to Schwieb

@DocterD Yeah, TT-RSS is still working well for me.

7:45 AM, Jan 18th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to DocterD

@NSExceptional I don’t recall that. It sounds like you still use iTunes but it only can erase.

6:25 PM, Jan 16th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to NSExceptional

@NSExceptional What about it?

5:00 PM, Jan 16th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NSExceptional

@grynspan User gets an alert saying “The application “App” can’t be opened.” It now appears that the app starts out… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

12:58 PM, Jan 16th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to grynspan

@grynspan Apparently the app looks normal but doesn’t launch.

12:09 PM, Jan 16th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to grynspan

@iljawascoding Not sure yet. One customer actually got an .app package that was missing the executable.

11:26 AM, Jan 16th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to iljawascoding

@atomicbird Does the store refuse to use the model as the header suggests? I always thought it would be cool if Cor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:18 PM, Jan 15th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to atomicbird

@steipete Makes for nice small files, though.

4:15 PM, Jan 15th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to steipete

@krzyzanowskim @lapcatsoftware The only real problem I have with this is that when Xcode’s interface-generation get… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

4:55 PM, Jan 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to krzyzanowskim

@lapcatsoftware It really is great not to have to deal with headers files, especially for files that are included in more than one target.

4:34 PM, Jan 14th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@mpweiher He seems to think APFS causes much more of the slowdown than the Meltdown fix does, but I didn’t have a c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

1:25 PM, Jan 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mpweiher

@mpweiher Have you seen this? reverse.put.as/2018/01/07/mea…

10:36 AM, Jan 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mpweiher

@lapcatsoftware Mine crash from time to time, but in all these years I have never received a crash report via the Mac App Store.

7:53 AM, Jan 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@istumbler @jckarter @lapcatsoftware That worked for a while, then it would spontaneously re-pair.

10:02 PM, Jan 12th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to istumbler

@jckarter @lapcatsoftware Well, you’re right: it does work in wired mode with Bluetooth off. But I want to have Blu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

7:36 PM, Jan 12th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jckarter

@jckarter @lapcatsoftware Everyone is telling me that, but have they actually tried it? When I did, it kept reconne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

7:23 PM, Jan 12th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jckarter

@morrick Yep, thanks. (Typo was in the original article.)

4:06 PM, Jan 12th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to morrick

@eurozerozero Yep, thanks.

9:02 PM, Jan 11th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to eurozerozero

@bellhaven @reneritchie @rjonesy @Alticus Rather, PhoneNet was a third-party alternative to the standard Apple netw… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:04 AM, Jan 11th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bellhaven

@bellhaven I think PhoneNet is a totally different situation because it was not Apple making you buy an adapter to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:04 AM, Jan 11th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bellhaven

@bellhaven @reneritchie @rjonesy @Alticus You know those aren’t really dongles, right?

9:30 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bellhaven

@Jon_Alper @scribandotcom @noir @rjonesy @reneritchie I wonder how many people even take minor software issues to g… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

5:08 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to Jon_Alper

@rjonesy @reneritchie @bellhaven Right, it’s the processes.

4:25 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rjonesy

@swissdanishguy @reneritchie @rjonesy @bellhaven 2 months? Mac Bluetooth has been broken for 15 months or so.

4:23 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to swissdanishguy

@noir @rjonesy @reneritchie I actually think the large number of small bugs is the main problem. The really serious… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

4:22 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to noir

@reneritchie @rjonesy @bellhaven To me, we are all in a boat with a hole in it. I don’t think it makes sense to arg… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

4:19 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to reneritchie

@reneritchie @rjonesy The combination of “it’s always been bad” and “but we can’t measure it accurately” seems like… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:58 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to reneritchie

@cmsj @reneritchie @rjonesy It shouldn’t matter whether there’s trend because if there are problems they should be… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:52 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to cmsj

@reneritchie @rjonesy Well, I agree with that last part. I don’t get how you can tell from searching that the severity hasn’t changed.

3:43 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to reneritchie

@rjonesy @reneritchie That’s my question, too: what evidence? So far I’ve got: blogs/forums/twitter, personal exper… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

3:22 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rjonesy

@depth42 @catlan @iljawascoding I wonder how Finder receives the drags then?

12:46 PM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to depth42

@mcelhearn My Magic Mouse and Microsoft Bluetooth mouse also spontaneously disconnect.

10:57 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mjtsai

@mcelhearn That was my first guess, and Apple sent me another. But I’m pretty sure it’s a OS bug. Happens with all… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:56 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mcelhearn

@mcelhearn I would guess so, but this was a while ago and I don’t recall whether it showed a bezel alert for reconnecting.

10:54 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mcelhearn

@mcelhearn I do use VMware Fusion, but the Bluetooth disconnections happen even when I’m not using it and on Macs t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:53 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mcelhearn

@mcelhearn I would be interested to know if that changes. I found that mine would start out like that and then peri… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:53 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mcelhearn

@mcelhearn The way I noticed this was that I continued to see Bluetooth disconnection messages (and loss of functio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:47 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mjtsai

@mcelhearn Have you checked that it really is operating via USB and didn’t auto-reconnect via Bluetooth?

10:46 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mcelhearn

@9to5mac @JeffBenjam I tried using a Magic Keyboard in wired mode because of Bluetooth problems, but in practice it… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

10:35 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to 9to5mac

@depth42 @iljawascoding I have had some luck receiving multiple item drags from Mail via NSTableView and the old AP… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

9:27 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to depth42

@depth42 @iljawascoding I’m pretty sure the old file promise API still works on previous OS versions, though it wou… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

9:26 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to depth42

@depth42 @iljawascoding IMO, it’s a bug because this type of thing used to work, but I filed a Radar and was told t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

9:21 AM, Jan 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to depth42

@NielsRoscher The fix for CVE-2017-5754 seems to be specific to macOS 10.13.

11:52 AM, Jan 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NielsRoscher

@ecschwarz Do you have an RSS feed?

9:23 AM, Jan 9th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to ecschwarz

@jgordonshare Thanks! Just updated with some better news as of Dropbox 40.4.46.

11:36 PM, Jan 8th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@jgordonshare I wonder if it takes while to “get it.” I, too, was underwhelmed when I tried an X. I don’t think it’… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

11:29 PM, Jan 8th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@jgordonshare Yes. I’ve documented the limitations as best I could here: c-command.com/eaglefiler/hel… Dropbox is overall… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

11:18 PM, Jan 8th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jgordonshare

@NatashaTheRobot Thank you!

10:01 PM, Jan 8th, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NatashaTheRobot