The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @mjtsai ever

February 2020

@nitoTV @lapcatsoftware I like the language a lot. I just wish the tooling were better.

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@DaveWoodX @lapcatsoftware Yeah, and you have no recourse when it fails because not every method is documented, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@lapcatsoftware Fancy type system, compiler has all this extra information, and yet the basic rename-class refactor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Plague Inc. Removed From the China App Store: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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Shadow Cloud Gaming Service Removed From the App Store: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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How Crash Bandicoot Hacked the Original Playstation: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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Google Earth Beta Supports Other Browsers: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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@pkamb Are you recommending something specific here? As I mentioned in the older post, the issue doesn’t seem to be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Pythonista 3.3 Includes a Keyboard Extension: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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Google Sent Private Videos in Google Photos to Strangers: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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@BigZaphod Not sure what it is, but it’s been happening to me with Mojave. Sometimes the whole Mac pauses for 5 sec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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EU Wants All Phones to Work With Interoperable Chargers: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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Safari to Reject HTTPS Certificates Longer Than a Year: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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Mac Backups and the Versions Database: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/2…

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Which OS Services Are App Store–only?: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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@NSExceptional It’s annoying, but most of the edges cases I run into are probably not ones that would come up delib… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@NSExceptional But if you do turn it off, how do you know what problems/bugs your customers will run into?

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Catalina Data Protections Break File Sharing: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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YouTube App Ending In-App Purchase: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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The Paywalled Garden
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Apple Suing Former Chip Lead… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@NSExceptional @steipete I wonder if it would work similarly to create the strings in a way that avoids the tagged pointer optimization.

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@chen_mobile I guess what I don’t understand is why half-baked isn’t an option. It seems like it would be a big imp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@carrchr Hmm, I don’t know. I hear that it’s country-specific, but it looks like you’re in the US so I would expect you to get them.

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@noelc Yeah, started making notes in September or so and was originally planning to write something along the lines… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@apontious Right, but my understanding is that in this case they don’t even have the half-assed app that others do.

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The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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Why There’s No Instagram iPad App: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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Why There’s No Instagram iPad App: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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iPad at 10
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Apple Suing Former A-series Chip Lead… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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2020 State of Mac Malware
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Avalanche for Lightroom 1.0.5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Unpaid Apple Store Bag Checks Ruled Illegal: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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macOS 10.15.3 Update Erases Log Files, Too: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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macOS 10.15.3 Time Machine Problems: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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grynspan @mjtsai Re the "UTI bug": if people are still seeing issues in the latest seeds, please file bugs so the right folk… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Wacom Tracking
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iCloud Drive Changing Empty Files… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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macOS 10.15.3 Update Doesn’t Create APFS Snapshot: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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@0xced So since Swift is now part of the OS, it’s going to be years before our lowest deployment target has this fix?

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@0xced Oddly, the new observe() method doesn’t show up in Dash, either. I knew it was there, but couldn’t find it.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Rejecting and Accepting an Appfigures Client: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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@lapcatsoftware Literally. The privacy database gets borked all the time, and then it’s not even possible to grant permissions.

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macOS 10.15.4 to Warn About Deprecated KPIs: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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France Fines Apple for Throttling iPhones Without Telling Users: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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Taika Waititi on MacBook Keyboards: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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iOS 13 Cursor Placement and Text Selection: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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dropdmg DropDMG 3.5.10 improves the code signing interface and fixes a bug with the Finder window size: c-command.com/blog/2020/02/1…

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@skid You’re welcome! And thanks for reading the blog.

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iCloud Drive Changing Empty Files: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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Apple’s Independent Repair Program Contract: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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Wacom Tablets Track Every App You Open: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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macOS 10.15.4 and iOS 13.4 in Beta: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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@Moltz @tjluoma @dmoren @reboundcast @Setapp There are some troubleshooting ideas here, which are also relevant to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@DamienPetrilli Even Mojave recently started freezing for 20 seconds when I try to drop a file from Messages to Finder.

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@Freerunnering Why did it stop remembering which section I was in?

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NSErrorDomain, NS_ERROR_ENUM, and NSErrorUserInfoKey: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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Alternative Ways to Protect Yourself From Being Spearfished: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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Delivering Origin-bound One-time Codes Over SMS: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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@siegel Ah, that makes sense. I would prefer that, too, were it not for the components currently available to us.

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@siegel @tapbot_paul @pilky Is it less glossy than the iMac’s display? Or some other reason that you like it better?

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@bwebster Good to see more code sharing and dogfooding. Hopefully this will make your life easier.

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@bwebster I thought Photos wasn’t a Catalyst app?

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@bwebster Oh, interesting that they went back to Core Data.

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eaglefiler EagleFiler 1.8.12 improves support for MarsEdit, MailTags, AppleScript, and e-mail handling, plus various fixes and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@packagesdev @tclementdev 1. Even a vague description of what happened is better than a number. The number must map… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@bwebster Different Photos backend? Yes, the SMB server is also a Mac. I’m exporting unmodified originals, so you’d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@bwebster Yeah, so checking the preferences it looks like it was actually using SMB. Regardless, I haven’t changed it since 10.14.

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@Jon_Alper Checking the preferences, it looks like FileI Sharing was already set to SMB.

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@Jon_Alper Not sure. I’ll try that next time.

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Photos.app still has AFP issues in macOS 10.15.3. Almost an order of magnitude slower than 10.14, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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@pirafrank I don’t know. I think Fusion 8 stopped working for me a few years ago.

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VMware Fusion 10 on macOS Catalina: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/0…

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@vinibarauna I’m using the price advertised here: flexibits.com/fantastical/pr… I guess they rounded down and you can’t a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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