Speculation in JavaScriptCore: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/3… #mjtsaiblog
macintosh.js: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/3… #mjtsaiblog
Keeping Dropbox: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/3… #mjtsaiblog
Exposure Notification Update: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/3… #mjtsaiblog
@ElGrowZone We need know what’s working and not working with the different apps and policies. Hiding that is not go… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Another Facebook SDK Crash
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Big Sur and Non-Retina… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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APFS Snapshots of the Big Sur System Volume
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Requiring Split Screen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Dropbox Dark Pattern
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Twitter’s URL Shortener… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@theilgaard @kbhasi Most iOS users don’t get apps via MDM, and the ones that do could still use it even if Apple allowed direct downloads.
@jgordonshare Still. :(
@theilgaard @kbhasi That’s more marketing than reality. It’s just not possible for them to catch most things in rev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@theilgaard @kbhasi It doesn’t. Apple has broken my app after submission (processing bug) and delivery that binary.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
It’s not like the App Store is just for mobile phone apps. It’s the only way to get apps onto iPad, the “clearest e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Dropbox Dark Pattern: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
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Don’t Close Your MacBook With a Camera Cover
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Apps That Can’t Be Tra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Big Sur’s Hidden Containers Folder
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USB-C Is Still a Mess… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Tim Cook’s App Store Testimony: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Schiller Interview Before the App Store Hearing: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
macOS 10.15.6 Bug Causes Crashes With Virtualization: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
MarsEdit 4.4: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Steve Wozniak Sues YouTube Over Bitcoin Scams: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
New EU Regulations for App Stores: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
@NSExceptional To encourage regular folks to update?
@NSExceptional That’s what it sounds like and I’m hoping for.
Hopper for Apple Silicon and Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
64-bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
USB-C Is Still a Mess: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Logitech Folio Touch Keyboard Case: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” Is Nothing of the Sort: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
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Apple Security Research Device Program
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Reverse Engineering macOS 11… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Big Sur’s Hidden Containers Folder
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macOS 11.0 Big Sur Announced… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@bhaskarsb They say it really is unblocked and suggest clearing your cache or using a different browser.
@bhaskarsb I will contact them again. In the meantime, you could access the content indirectly through a service like Feedbin if you want.
Polymorphic Interfaces: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Programming Job Interviews: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
“No-Logging” VPN Providers: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
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Another Apple-Funded App Store Study
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How macOS 11 Will Sound… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@bhaskarsb Could you see whether your IP has changed?
@bhaskarsb Thanks. Looks like DreamHost was blocking your IP for some reason, and they say that have now unblocked it.
Another Apple-Funded App Store Study: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
A First Replicating Type: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Security Research Device Program: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Local iOS Backups Without a Mac: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
@bhaskarsb Yes, DMs are open, or you could e-mail mjt@mjtsai.com. Thanks.
@bhaskarsb Could you tell me what your IP address is? whatsmyip.org
Big Sur Is Both 10.16 and 11.0: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Two Weeks With iPadOS 14: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
How macOS 11 Will Sound: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Windows 10X As a Web-first OS: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
@bhaskarsb Thanks for letting me know. I hope we can find a solution. Are you able to visit dreamhost.com?
@bhaskarsb Thanks. This does not look good, but I’m not sure what should be done about it. I’ll contact my host and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@bhaskarsb I think traceroute only takes a domain name, not a full URL.
@bhaskarsb What error does Safari (or curl) report? Are you able to test the connection with a traceroute?
swift-reflection-dump: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 13.6: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 13.6: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 13.6: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 13.6: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
The Rise and Fall of Adobe Flash: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
Launch Services Browser 2.1: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/2… #mjtsaiblog
@bradeeoh How/where would you suggest reporting sites that don’t work in Safari?
Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
A New and Improved Twitter API: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
Omni Group’s New Licensing: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
Don’t Close Your MacBook With a Camera Cover: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
macOS 10.15.6: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
@lapcatsoftware I know. Wasn't sure whether an extension could fetch the content of the other page.
@lapcatsoftware I can translate the syntax in my head, but sometimes the APIs are more substantially different (and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@theeliblock Not sure.
@rschroed A little. I’m working on a new post about this.
APFS Snapshots of the Big Sur System Volume: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
The WWDC Format: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 14 Pasteboard Notifications: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
SwiftUI for Mac on Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
@tjluoma Glad you like the Uplift. I got mine largely on the recommendation from @davedelong.
Implicit Capturing of Self in Swift 5.3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
Another Facebook SDK Crash: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
@NSExceptional @theeliblock Yes, I’ve trained it many times. On Catalina the accuracy drops within a day.
@theeliblock I miss Messages transcripts.
@theeliblock Mourning, although of course Craig already declared them a success last year.
@theeliblock Features removed, controls that don’t look or work like those in other apps, weird layouts, navigation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@theeliblock Previously, Touch ID would reject my finger more than 50% of the time, no matter how many times I retr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@theeliblock 2019 16-inch.
Touch ID on my MacBook Pro seems to work *much* better with Big Sur than with Catalina.
The Raison d’Être for the App Store: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/1… #mjtsaiblog
@Jon_Alper I never intended to use Chrome, either, except for testing. Then I started running into sites that Safar… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
VMware Fusion Tech Preview for Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Clip 1.0: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
How to Decode Apple Version and Build Numbers: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
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unc0ver
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It Doesn’t Work
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Rattlegate… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@cmsj Maybe they could work together, or Safari could find a better way to implement the features.
@jnadeau I would love that.
@cmsj Ceding the entire space to Google by refusing to participate is not going to lessen Google’s control.
@cmsj Well, both Apple and Microsoft all but abandoned the largest platform.
@jnadeau Does the browser really have to make them modal?
@jnadeau We already get that with native apps, and for sites that request the currently supported permissions. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rosyna I don’t think anyone is accusing Chromium of lagging in adoption of Web features. And the platform you left… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Making a Best in Class iOS App: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Is WebKit Sabotaging the Future of the Open Web?: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Silicon and Virtualization: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
What Changes Might Be Coming to New Mac Hardware?: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Visual Comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
AirPods Pro: Rattlegate: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC): mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
AirPods vs. AirPods Pro: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Optimizing the Objective-C Runtime in Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
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Apple Arcade
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Clipboard Snooping
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iPhone SE… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@simX Tags, or possibly another xattr with a similar prefix.
@tullera Indeed.
@mysk_co Presumably this no longer works on iOS 14?
mount_apfs TCC Bypass and Privilege Escalation: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
TikTok iOS Clipboard Snooping: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
LinkedIn iOS Clipboard Snooping: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Big Sur’s Narrow Alerts: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
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Big Sur’s Hidden Containers Folder
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Apple Card… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@stroughtonsmith The menu command to open the preferences doesn’t always work, and it can no longer save conversati… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Using SVGs in Asset Catalogs: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
A Huge Year for SwiftUI: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Safari Privacy Protections Bypass: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
App Store Requires Opting Out After Trial Subscription: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Boot and Recovery Mode on Apple Silicon Macs: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
@lapcatsoftware I think I missed it. Thanks.
Canceling Apple Arcade Games: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Upgrade Inteviews Bob Borchers and Ronak Shah: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Big Sur’s Hidden Containers Folder: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Sim Genie 1.0: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Card is the only credit card I have that e-mails me to say the statement is ready before it’s actually ready.
@CraigGrannell Yeah, I remember when they gave an award to DiskWarrior, which had the least flashy but very easy to use interface.
@CraigGrannell True, although this year’s WWDC and interviews kept emphasizing how much Apple cares about the Mac,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…