May 2021

@ChristianSelig @DavidHodge @DonnyWals If you don’t need [cd], you can make it go faster by Unicode-normalizing the… https://t.co/Wqh9ylHuWn

8:50 PM, May 31st, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@EggFreckles EagleFiler actually can do that for Messages in Catalina and earlier, which could save iChat transcrip… https://t.co/IZYVXTvbwV

8:43 PM, May 31st, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@_saagarjha @lapcatsoftware Very interesting. That’s much higher than I would have guessed.

8:15 AM, May 30th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to _saagarjha

@danedeasy Yes, an old post. Please see comment: https://t.co/2SV2FzMgui

7:55 PM, May 29th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@dokas Some sort of WordPress/MarsEdit issue where updating a tag on really old post (imported from Movable Type) c… https://t.co/3DBFyGuTeg

8:41 AM, May 29th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@stuarticus Yeah, Discourse and StackExchange are both much better.

7:55 AM, May 28th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to stuarticus

@fpillet In this case, it’s getting stuck after code signing, while the xctest process is trying to load the test bundle.

6:52 PM, May 26th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to fpillet

@cfihelp I’ve not. It’s hanging in access() when trying to load the test bundle, and tccd is using tons of CPU. Are… https://t.co/64WxPNGUPi

4:19 PM, May 26th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@AIinformacao https://t.co/ULdaFDbNFR

10:06 AM, May 26th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@kch Thanks!

9:25 PM, May 25th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to kch

@jackbrewster Fixed, thanks!

7:30 PM, May 25th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jackbrewster

@iljawascoding @mpweiher Could be. SMB definitely seems a lot slower now.

2:48 PM, May 25th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@_saagarjha @lapcatsoftware I guess my implicit assumption is that they are almost all non-nil, so it makes sense t… https://t.co/ZRc0zdKo2I

9:46 AM, May 25th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@_saagarjha @lapcatsoftware It’s not “a few” if nearly every line of Obj-C code is a message send. Why would it be… https://t.co/A6CQbslW9Z

9:28 AM, May 25th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@_saagarjha @lapcatsoftware Yes, you would want it to predict those branches. But since each has a unique location… https://t.co/e55OAV58sJ

9:21 AM, May 25th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@ddkilzer Thanks! I’ll collect some for you. I haven’t noticed any patterns with which sites causes crashes, but it… https://t.co/dFoQ6MWYNQ

9:29 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@ajwk100 Thanks, post updated.

6:34 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to ajwk100

@_saagarjha @lapcatsoftware I was thinking it would fill up the BTB with mostly useless stuff? But it’s been a whil… https://t.co/ToJLXwGxMy

6:34 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@lapcatsoftware @_saagarjha Multiplied by a lot of call sites, maybe it is significant for what can fit in the cach… https://t.co/sKhp94Fj2L

4:52 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@steipete I don’t like webmail and need to dogfood my apps that work with Mail.

4:51 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to steipete

@superezfe Wacky. I think I must have learned my lesson long ago not to do anything in Excel while in that mode wit… https://t.co/qHc7pWqWDZ

4:14 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@lapcatsoftware I think there used to be a runtime hook to intercept messages to nil, so it actually had to call objc_msgSend.

3:56 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@superezfe I can’t say that’s ever happened to me, and I always have stuff on my clipboard. How are you inserting the column?

3:54 PM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to superezfe

@nubero @Apple @lapcatsoftware @betalogue Yep, that will be in my post later today. :(

11:46 AM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nubero

@lapcatsoftware I think that’s much clearer.

10:06 AM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@lapcatsoftware Aha, I thought that was referring to something else since the replies I’m referring to *are* tweets… https://t.co/LQkJxcIewi

9:31 AM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@nubero @Apple @lapcatsoftware @betalogue Not sure what’s going on with Apple Mail. They keep rewriting the parts t… https://t.co/TcBxSFpijl

9:19 AM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@lapcatsoftware Looks like you fixed it so that it always shows the option for replies. It’s not a preference?

9:17 AM, May 24th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@lapcatsoftware I really like this, but I’d like to be able to turn off the blocking of Show More links. I missed s… https://t.co/MDkPamjT28

7:36 PM, May 21st, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@chucker @boredzo Isn’t that the new standard toolbar?

5:01 PM, May 21st, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@chucker @boredzo I don’t think Mail has proxy icons, anyway? (Even the Command-click menu was removed a few versions ago.)

4:53 PM, May 21st, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@chucker Thanks. Also discussed here: https://t.co/9dtUUWegp1 Just added to: https://t.co/yyj8fR0l30

4:51 PM, May 21st, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@trevormkay @JoshCalvetti Great work Trevor, thanks for building this!

10:44 PM, May 19th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to trevormkay

@bombichsoftware @m_galvagno That’s my experience as well. FWIW, CCC is doing a good job of pruning its own snapshots on my Mac.

9:31 AM, May 17th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to bombichsoftware

@bombichsoftware @m_galvagno diskutil is what I mentioned in the post. I thought tmutil seemed simpler, but good to… https://t.co/vyLu8iimNq

9:07 AM, May 17th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@m_galvagno @bombichsoftware CCC does offer the ability to delete snapshots, even ones created by Time Machine. It’… https://t.co/xVBtVQ9J7R

8:59 AM, May 17th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@tumult I’ve only seen this problem with the system disk. I think there are two bugs, really: (1) doesn’t purge sna… https://t.co/r7e08jkRYg

9:24 PM, May 16th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@tumult I don’t know how much was actually free. I presume the volume is usually almost full because the snapshots… https://t.co/6DzROGV966

9:11 PM, May 16th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@tumult The macOS installer is about 12 GB. The 37 GB is how much was shown as free *after* downloading it.

9:02 PM, May 16th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to tumult

@torstendhal I have not. The Core Data CloudKit stuff doesn’t seem to be a good fit for what I’m doing.

9:22 AM, May 15th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to torstendhal

@johnpane I’m not seeing that here. Lots of problems with remembering column state, though.

11:17 AM, May 14th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to johnpane

@nickheer That’s a good point. I think I have run into sites that don’t work with Safari and Mavericks. Maybe with Chrome…

8:42 PM, May 13th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nickheer

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare It seems like ATT would prohibit that as well. But can Apple really enforce that? It… https://t.co/EghgPQCbg2

11:55 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@al3xandru I’ve not announced a date, but it will happen with EagleFiler 2.0, which is the next planned release (ot… https://t.co/z9cmhZ65CA

11:45 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare Or is Facebook supposed to remember on the server which interactions happened in the… https://t.co/ysrPasYesf

11:38 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare If I opt out of tracking, FB isn’t supposed to link what I do in the app with what I… https://t.co/vdvYj16ykb

11:36 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@al3xandru “Compatible” means that it works great in Rosetta 2. Parts have been compiled for Apple Silicon, but not the whole app yet.

11:32 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to al3xandru

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare Apple says it counts as Tracking if you link data from your app with data collected f… https://t.co/PDODBMAtRk

11:26 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare Yes, I think the main point is some combination of privacy and wanting to hurt Facebook.

11:22 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to OluseyiSonaiya

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare I’m not so sure about that because stuff you do in the Facebook app gets linked to yo… https://t.co/9aXMfXGDk5

11:17 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare Is this because the ESPN app includes the Facebook SDK, or do ESPN and Facebook commu… https://t.co/2geZ80E2md

11:10 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare Could be—would love to know more about that. Do you mean that knowing which apps you’… https://t.co/acXsB2Nash

10:29 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare I don’t know what the percentage is, but it must be a significant amount of $ given h… https://t.co/UBcK61v0FP

9:32 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@OluseyiSonaiya @jgordonshare I’m not sure why the location of the ad would matter. They’re both selling ads for apps.

9:21 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to OluseyiSonaiya

@justkwin @grynspan Great post, thanks!

8:22 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@grynspan Thanks for explaining! That makes sense, but I wanted to check because I have only seen this issue called… https://t.co/bUuyXb3u9H

3:46 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@grynspan That makes sense. I’m not worried about the message sending overhead, but would prefer inline storage whe… https://t.co/1L9PDhY0YL

3:26 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@grynspan Interesting. Does this mean that the documentation saying that NSLock uses pthreads is incorrect? For me,… https://t.co/OQh3AWPlNn

2:41 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@lapcatsoftware This has been happening to me on and off since Catalina, without using Google Chrome or plugging in… https://t.co/VhgsUgComx

2:11 PM, May 11th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@betalogue And on Big Sur it has rounded corners like a search field.

3:27 PM, May 10th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to betalogue

@urandom_device https://t.co/EFfyXHULmd

9:06 AM, May 8th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@helje5 @gte @uliwitness No, to run Windows apps alongside Cocoa apps, but on top of Mach rather than Microsoft’s kernel.

8:47 PM, May 5th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@gte @helje5 @uliwitness Me neither, because it would have required Intel boxes that didn’t run any of the old Mac apps.

8:41 PM, May 5th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@denkeni Thanks!

8:38 PM, May 5th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to denkeni

@helje5 @gte @uliwitness I think Red Box was the equivalent of Classic for Windows apps.

8:35 PM, May 5th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac

@lapcatsoftware I guess it’s no longer possible to update just Safari for Big Sur?

10:03 AM, May 5th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@KenHatesSoftwar Yes, I think it’s mostly obliviousness on the App Store and quality problems, which have been festering for 10+ years now.

4:30 PM, May 4th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to KenHatesSoftwar

@nickheer Garbage alert, although I gotta say I like that it’s not narrow/vertical on Big Sur…

3:44 PM, May 4th, 2021 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to nickheer