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May 2019

autoreleasepool Uses in 2019 Swift: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/3…

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@tempelorg @lapcatsoftware Sorry about that. Not sure what happened, but it should be current now.

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@stroughtonsmith I’ve definitely seen long delays in my iOS Music, and it has far less music in it than my iTunes.

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How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster
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Three iOS Keyboard Changes Appl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@roryprior And now compare with the Mac versions before they were rewritten for iOS…

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@NamelessWander4 @nubero Some of the most vocal iPad fans do know a lot about the Mac. I think they just have a different perspective.

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@sanguish @McCloudStrife Here’s a fun one: the descriptions of the two by-property merge policies are backwards: developer.apple.com/documentation/…

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@nubero Great post. It baffles me as well. I can only assume that the bloggers are sincere and really do love it an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Skype for Web Drops Support for Safari
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Playdate… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Apple Expected to Remove 3D Touch
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iPod touch 7th Generation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@sanguish The reference docs aren’t collecting HeaderDoc comments or equivalent?

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WWDC 2019 Preview
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The State of Apple’s Developer Documentation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Movist Removed From the Mac App Store: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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Gatekeeper Symlink/Automount Bypass: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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Wish for a Return of Vibrant Tapdown States: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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@tullera @kocienda @lapcatsoftware And if you want a tree instead of a stack, there’s NSDetailedErrorsKey.

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@colincornaby Not in the base 10.2.0, only added later by installing Safari.

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Why Does Windows Use Backslash As the Path Separator?: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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Facebook Sharing Data With Phone Carriers: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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How Effective Is Basic Account Hygiene at Preventing Hijacking?: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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@kocienda This ended up being a really important contribution to Foundation. Thank you.

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spamsieve SpamSieve 2.9.36 improves filtering accuracy, Dark Mode in Apple Mail, and interaction with Outlook rules; also mak… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution For the Web: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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@parrots Well, I can’t say whether there’s a bug that would cause that to happen. But I think this is something that’s intended to work.

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@parrots Pretty sure you can actually do this with the designated initializer and a nil context.

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@agilethumbs @lapcatsoftware Yeah, lots of I/O problems with Mojave. Drives that won’t mount or unmount. USB keyboa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@briannehring @gruber That sounds right. Thanks for the correction.

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Enough about the WWDC app’s new icon. What I want to know is, does it work offline? mjtsai.com/blog/2018/11/0…

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MacBook Pro 2019
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The State of Apple’s Developer Documentation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Qualcomm Loses U.S. Antitrust Ruling: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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(A personal favorite)

Mac Toolbar Labels and Accessibility: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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Intel vs. Qualcomm Cellular Modem Speed: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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@sanguish The same people’s vision changed? I thought maybe it was a people shortage—despite the same headcount—sin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@sanguish Yeah, if they’re not understaffed, I don’t know what’s going on. If they are, fixing that should be a top… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@sanguish I don’t know. I wish he’d hire you.

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@nickheer The press release (unless it differs from the Newsroom piece) doesn’t mention the word “keyboard.”

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@McCloudStrife @gruber Is the Windows app ecosystem really that sparse?

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Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License
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The Potential Advantages of a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Beyond the Tablet: Seven Years of iPad as My Main Computer: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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@McCloudStrife @gruber Has that really gone anywhere, or is it more like GNUstep—cool technology without much traction?

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Can’t read Internet Archive pages in Safari due to kCFErrorHTTPParseFailure.

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Just received this text: “Is something wrong with my iCloud photos? I was trying to print a pic but the thing says iCloud not available” :-(

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@betalogue @Apple Alas, I see this from SpamSieve customers who thought they put an address in their Contacts, but… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@e_k_ @brentsimmons Wow, I didn’t realize that. It looks likes you can turn both cookies and JavaScript off and the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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The State of Apple’s Developer Documentation: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/2…

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Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) Mitigation: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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Three iOS Keyboard Changes Apple Should Make: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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The Potential Advantages of a JavaScript Whitelist: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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Dynamic Equality Checking and Equatable: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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@pmcg No, hadn’t heard that, specifically. My recollection was that conversion has been necessary for several major… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Detaching Safari’s Downloads Popover: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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Valve’s Steam Link App Now Available: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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Designing a Dark Theme for OLED iPhones: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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@NSExceptional @slava_pestov Yeah, once you’ve received something as an Any, it’s too late to turn it into an AnyHashable, right?

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@NSExceptional @slava_pestov This seemed like the obvious solution to me, so I assume there’s something I’m missing.

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@NSExceptional I guess there’s a small performance win because you statically know that the types are the same, so you can avoid that check.

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@NSExceptional Yeah, this is really annoying. Is there an advantage to the Self requirement other than making it mo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Collision Course
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New Mac Pro Won’t Arrive Until 2019… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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App Store Monopoly Lawsuit
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Quarantine: Apps and Documents… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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macOS 10.14.5 Whitelists Kernel Extensions: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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Adobe Case Study in Why Customers Don’t Like Subscriptions: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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@marcoarment @tiffanyarment Enjoyed this episode. Disorganized Crime is another fun light one that’s very heisty.

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Google’s Apparent Turnaround on Privacy: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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Windows to Include a Full Linux Kernel
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Collision Course… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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2019 Apple Keyboard Problems
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Dark Mode Support in WebKit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@CraigGrannell @mcelhearn The same thing happened with my old aluminum Apple keyboard, but the Magic one does seem to wear out faster.

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@eurozerozero Thanks. I seem to recall it being Contacts Only by default as well, though perhaps it’s changed.

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@krzyzanowskim In fairness, the regular Magic Keyboard hardware seems to be fine. It’s held back by software issues… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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Windows to Include a Full Linux Kernel: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/1…

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@tjluoma Looks like the bundle identifier has changed to com.tapbots.Tweetbot3Mac.

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@tjluoma Thanks. I used to use Choosy but didn’t realize it could expand links.

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@NSExceptional I believe so, because it requires Developer ID, which is not available to free accounts.

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Requires New Developers to Notarize
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Optional, throws, Result, and async/await: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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Tying the Locale to the Localization: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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@stormchild I haven’t looked into that. I already knew I didn’t want to rely on Photos.

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The Apple Watch Turns Four: Some Thoughts: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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@stormchild Preserved but not editable, I think. Like adjustments from previous Lightroom engines.

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TurboTax Dark Patterns and Robots Exclusion: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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Google’s Response to Edge Chromium: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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Apple Cracks Down on Screen Time Apps That Use MDM
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Apple’s Q2 2019… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Apple Cracks Down on Screen Time Apps That Use MDM
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Folder Access and Inconsistent App Review: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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TextEdit Deletes Original File Even When You Cancel: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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Plans for Third-Party Marzipan Apps: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/0…

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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.2: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/04/3…

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