Archive for 2025

Failed Software Update on the External Drive of an Apple Silicon Mac (9)April 11, 2025
AppexIndexer 1.0 April 11, 2025
Bauhaus Clock Screensaver April 11, 2025
CSS “text-wrap: pretty” in WebKit (2)April 11, 2025
Awaiting APIs (1)April 10, 2025
How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI Makeover (2)April 10, 2025
Siri Product Knowledge April 10, 2025
Unable to Send Messages With Apple Mail on macOS 15.4 (3)April 9, 2025
Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs (10)April 9, 2025
Soured (16)April 9, 2025
Reflecting on 18 Years at Google April 9, 2025
Swiftly 1.0 (1)April 8, 2025
Kaleidoscope 5.4 April 8, 2025
Locked Out of Apple Developer Accounts (2)April 8, 2025
Abysmal Services (17)April 8, 2025
iOS 18.4: Ambient Music (1)April 7, 2025
Numbers 14.4 (11)April 7, 2025
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA (7)April 7, 2025
Delta at 10 April 4, 2025
Zelle Is Shutting Down Payments via Its App (2)April 4, 2025
Windows 11 Install to Require Internet and Microsoft Account (9)April 4, 2025
How External Bootable Disks Work With Apple Silicon Macs (4)April 4, 2025
Altair Basic Source Code (1)April 3, 2025
France Fines Apple Over App Tracking Transparency (5)April 3, 2025
France Rejects Backdoor Mandate April 3, 2025
Apple Intelligence Available in EU (7)April 3, 2025
Moving Targets (9)April 2, 2025
Swift Testing: Return Errors From #expect(throws:) April 2, 2025
Severed Edits April 2, 2025
Rebuilding the Social Security Administration’s Codebase (8)April 2, 2025
Swift Testing: Test Scoping Traits April 1, 2025
Xcode 16.3 (2)April 1, 2025
SpamSieve 3.1.2 April 1, 2025
xAI Acquires X/Twitter (4)April 1, 2025
macOS 15.4 (4)March 31, 2025
macOS 14.7.5 and macOS 13.7.5 March 31, 2025
iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 (3)March 31, 2025
tvOS 18.4 (2)March 31, 2025
watchOS 11.4 March 31, 2025
visionOS 2.4 March 31, 2025
audioOS 18.4 March 31, 2025
macOS 15.4 Adds TCC Events to Endpoint Security (1)March 28, 2025
ChangeTheHeaders 1.0 (8)March 28, 2025
Controlling Launch Services in Sequoia March 28, 2025
Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia (28)March 28, 2025
SuperDuper 3.10 Beta Works Around asr Bug March 27, 2025
Double-Tap Kindle to Turn Page (4)March 27, 2025
Google Moves Android Development to Internal Branches (2)March 27, 2025
The Future of Swift Serialization and Deserialization APIs (3)March 26, 2025
Apple TV+ Losing $1 Billion Per Year (15)March 26, 2025
Updates on HP Printers (6)March 26, 2025
Apple’s Dormant CUPS (7)March 26, 2025
AirPods Max Lossless and Low Latency Audio Over USB-C (4)March 25, 2025
Error 702 Installing macOS on an External Drive (17)March 25, 2025
Please Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face March 25, 2025
Matching Drop Shadows March 25, 2025
Fantastical 4.0.7 March 24, 2025
Google Maps Timeline Data Loss March 24, 2025
Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe (1)March 24, 2025
Mobile App Revenue in 2025 (3)March 24, 2025
Swift Testing Proposal: Exit Tests March 21, 2025
SwiftUI Fundamentals (6)March 21, 2025
Apple Shifts Siri From Giannandrea to Rockwell (13)March 21, 2025
Vibe Coding (6)March 21, 2025
LogUI 1.0 March 21, 2025
Two Decades of Bjango (5)March 21, 2025
Apple Under German Antitrust Scrutiny (1)March 21, 2025
Lifetime Dependencies in Swift 6.2 and Beyond March 19, 2025
DMA Compliance: Watch and Headphone Interoperability (23)March 19, 2025
Apple Restricts Pebble From Being Awesome With iPhones (14)March 19, 2025
Apple Passwords Phishing Vulnerability (4)March 19, 2025
Mac SSD Performance (6)March 18, 2025
Mark Klein, RIP March 18, 2025
Alexa Removing “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” Feature (1)March 18, 2025
Firefox Benefits From Browser Choice Screens March 18, 2025
Encrypted RCS Standard (1)March 17, 2025
How Apple Could Help With AI and LLMs March 17, 2025
Leaked Apple Siri Meeting (22)March 17, 2025
Strongbox Acquired by Applause Group (14)March 14, 2025
DMA Compliance: Default Maps App in EU (5)March 14, 2025
Rewriting the TypeScript Compiler in Go March 14, 2025
App Review, Never Change (7)March 14, 2025
Swift Proposal: Import Objective-C Completion Handler Parameters As @Sendable March 13, 2025
Mozilla Also Defends Google Revenue Sharing Agreement (3)March 13, 2025
Rotten (41)March 13, 2025
Rumored Redesign in iOS 19 and macOS 16 (16)March 13, 2025
ChatGPT Now Integrates Directly With Xcode March 12, 2025
Whither Swift Assist? (2)March 12, 2025
Apple Delays “More Personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence Features (9)March 12, 2025
AI Summaries of App Store Reviews March 12, 2025
macOS 15.3.2 (2)March 11, 2025
iOS 18.3.2 and iPadOS 18.3.2 March 11, 2025
visionOS 2.3.2 March 11, 2025
tvOS 18.3.1 March 11, 2025
Tricked Into Installing macOS Update (13)March 10, 2025
Purgeable Disk Space (2)March 10, 2025
NSFileWrapper Sometimes Changes Modification Date to the Past (1)March 10, 2025
Weak M4 Mac mini Wi-Fi (5)March 10, 2025
Brother Denies Blocking Third-Party Toner (3)March 7, 2025
Brazilian Court Mandates iOS Sideloading (2)March 7, 2025
Digg Returns (2)March 7, 2025
Private GitHub Data Lingers in Copilot Training March 7, 2025
Alexa Plus (3)March 6, 2025
Lightroom Classic 14.2 (1)March 6, 2025
Chrome Warning About Manifest V2 Extensions (2)March 6, 2025
Ladybird Browser (13)March 6, 2025
Mac Studio 2025 (2)March 5, 2025
Apple M3 Ultra March 5, 2025
MacBook Air 2025 (3)March 5, 2025
Leitmotif Acquires Taska (2)March 5, 2025
iPad Air (M3, 7th Generation) (7)March 4, 2025
iPad (11th Generation) March 4, 2025
Premium Hardware, Subpar Software (1)March 4, 2025
Linus Sebastian Switches to iPhone for 30 Days (12)March 4, 2025
Citibank’s $81 Trillion Error (3)March 3, 2025
Swift 6.1 March 3, 2025
StopTheMadness for Safari Web Apps? March 3, 2025
2024 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card March 3, 2025
Mozilla Changes Firefox Terms of Use (10)February 28, 2025
Microsoft Shutting Down Skype (7)February 28, 2025
iOS Declared Age Range API February 28, 2025
Lawsuit Over Apple Watch Carbon Offsets (5)February 28, 2025
Xcode Spell Checking (3)February 27, 2025
nRootTag February 27, 2025
The Tyranny of Apps (11)February 27, 2025
Our Changing Relationship With Apple (27)February 27, 2025
Testimony on External Purchase Fee and Scare Screens (14)February 26, 2025
Hyperspace 1.0 (7)February 26, 2025
“Phonetic Overlap” (5)February 26, 2025
Amazon Removes Direct Downloads of Kindle Books (3)February 26, 2025
FBI Also Wants to Break iCloud Advanced Data Protection (13)February 25, 2025
XcodeBenchmark (8)February 25, 2025
Show Network QR Code (5)February 25, 2025
Humane Acquired, Ai Pin Discontinued (1)February 25, 2025
ProVUE at the First Macworld Expo (1)February 24, 2025
Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets February 24, 2025
Seeing the Location Name in Apple TV’s Aerial Screensaver (6)February 24, 2025
CIFilterBuiltins February 24, 2025
New Blog Server (8)February 22, 2025
Apple Pulls iCloud Advanced Data Protection From UK (9)February 21, 2025
Icons in Passwords.app and App Privacy Report February 21, 2025
Orion’s Password Manager February 21, 2025
Secrets 4.4 and Passkey Credential Exchange (4)February 21, 2025
Git Tower 12.5 February 20, 2025
Beej’s Guide to Git (1)February 20, 2025
Kaleidoscope 5.3 (5)February 20, 2025
Retcon 1.2 February 20, 2025
iPhone 16e (25)February 19, 2025
Hiding Data in Emoji (4)February 19, 2025
Hiding Vulnerabilities in Source Code (1)February 19, 2025
fileReferenceURL vs. NSURLFileResourceIdentifierKey February 19, 2025
BenQ PD2730S 5K Display (1)February 18, 2025
ASUS ProArt 5K Display February 18, 2025
Jettison 1.9 (4)February 18, 2025
MailMate 2.0 Beta (9)February 18, 2025
Swift Proposal: InlineArray (3)February 17, 2025
Grammarly vs. Apple’s Writing Tools (4)February 17, 2025
On the Undesign of Apple Intelligence Features (7)February 17, 2025
Gatekeeper vs. .terminal and .fileloc Files (1)February 17, 2025
Martin Pilkington, RIP February 16, 2025
Netflix Content Accidentally in TV App (11)February 14, 2025
Asahi Linux Lead Resigns (22)February 14, 2025
One Year With the Vision Pro (11)February 14, 2025
TikTok Back in the App Store February 14, 2025
Reuters Wins AI Copyright Case (2)February 13, 2025
Gemmell Is Back to Mac (23)February 13, 2025
Chinese App Store Antitrust Probe (1)February 13, 2025
NSDocument Auto Saving and File Types (1)February 13, 2025
Migrating Apple Account Purchases Between Accounts (4)February 12, 2025
App Store and Japanese Consumption Tax February 12, 2025
Game Licensing in Vietnam (1)February 12, 2025
App Store Advanced Commerce API (4)February 12, 2025
macOS 15.3.1 (11)February 11, 2025
macOS 14.7.4 and macOS 13.7.4 February 11, 2025
iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1 (1)February 11, 2025
watchOS 11.3.1 February 11, 2025
visionOS 2.3.1 February 11, 2025
How Safari Search Engine Extensions Work (8)February 10, 2025
TikTok Android Sideloading (4)February 10, 2025
DeepSeek’s True Training Cost (6)February 10, 2025
Google Maps at 20 February 10, 2025
UK Orders Apple to Break iCloud Advanced Data Protection (10)February 7, 2025
SpamSieve 3.1.1 February 7, 2025
DeepSeek Privacy Issues February 7, 2025
Screenshot-Reading Malware February 7, 2025
Mac App Store Broken on macOS 10.14 and Earlier (20)February 6, 2025
Tapestry 1.0 (5)February 5, 2025
Reeder Rebuilt (3)February 5, 2025
Apple “Approved” Hot Tub Porn App (17)February 5, 2025
Spotify Profitable February 5, 2025
Apple Invites (5)February 4, 2025
Instapaper 9.1 and Send to Kindle Extension February 4, 2025
Swift Concurrency Glossary February 4, 2025
AppleCare+ Only As a Subscription (6)February 3, 2025
2024 Six Colors Apple Report Card (4)February 3, 2025
Swift Build (1)February 3, 2025
What to Do When macOS Won’t Let You Unmount a Volume (7)February 3, 2025
Apple’s Q1 2025 Results January 31, 2025
Preventing a Mac Laptop From Turning on When Opening Its Lid (4)January 31, 2025
A Few Words About Indie App Business (1)January 31, 2025
SLAP and FLOP Side-Channel Attacks (2)January 30, 2025
Gulf of America (5)January 30, 2025
Repeating Calculator Operations January 30, 2025
Malimite 1.1 (7)January 29, 2025
Google Open Sources PebbleOS (1)January 29, 2025
Releasing Core Intuition January 29, 2025
DeepSeek (12)January 28, 2025
Siri Super Bowl Regression (1)January 28, 2025
iPad at 15 (3)January 28, 2025
GRDB 7 January 28, 2025
Apple Intelligence Enabled Automatically (8)January 27, 2025
macOS 15.3 (5)January 27, 2025
macOS 14.7.3 and macOS 13.7.3 January 27, 2025
iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 January 27, 2025
watchOS 11.3 January 27, 2025
visionOS 2.3 January 27, 2025
tvOS 18.3 January 27, 2025
audioOS 18.3 (1)January 27, 2025
Edits and Clips (3)January 24, 2025
Debug Descriptions on the Wrong Thread (6)January 24, 2025
Phishing Texts Trick Users Into Disabling Protection January 24, 2025
Google Search Now Requires JavaScript (10)January 24, 2025
Stargate Project (5)January 23, 2025
iOS and iCloud Keychain Are Hostile to Backups (9)January 23, 2025
Swift Concurrency: Waiting for Async Work January 23, 2025
App Store Profit Margin (4)January 23, 2025
Swift Proposal: Opt-in Strict Memory Safety Checking January 22, 2025
Opting Out of Visual Look Up and iCloud Photos (6)January 22, 2025
App Store Trader Status Deadline (7)January 22, 2025
ViewSonic VP2788-5K Display (2)January 22, 2025
TikTok Takedown (6)January 21, 2025
TikTok In-App Purchases (8)January 21, 2025
How to Obtain View Dimensions in SwiftUI (1)January 17, 2025
Trouble Updating the Wisdom of Quinn (16)January 17, 2025
Apple’s DMA Compliance Criticized (4)January 17, 2025
Opting Out of Microsoft 365’s Copilot AI (12)January 17, 2025
Let the User Help Solve Their Own Problem (6)January 16, 2025
M4 Mac mini USB-C Issues (3)January 16, 2025
Putnam-AXIOM Variation (4)January 16, 2025
macOS 15.2 Changes XProtect Update Mechanism (3)January 16, 2025
AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 Pushed Into Transparency Mode (3)January 15, 2025
AirPods Pro Case Chime Sound (5)January 15, 2025
Tony Fadell Wanted Apple to Buy Sonos (10)January 15, 2025
PyObjC 11 (1)January 15, 2025
Bezel 2.5.1 (1)January 14, 2025
Gravy Analytics Hacked (1)January 14, 2025
Brazil Fines Apple Over FaceApp January 14, 2025
Treasury Department Hacked January 14, 2025
This Remote Has Me Questioning Everything (10)January 13, 2025
Mac Toolbar Guidelines (5)January 13, 2025
What Happened to APFS Fast Directory Sizing? January 13, 2025
Accessibility That Fits (1)January 13, 2025
SteamOS Expands Past the Steam Deck (4)January 10, 2025
Luigi Mangione’s Account Renamed on Stack Overflow (7)January 10, 2025
Passkey Usability (4)January 10, 2025
Network Neutrality Not Reinstated January 10, 2025
Making Apple S9 and A16 in Arizona (3)January 9, 2025
Bing Tricking People Into Thinking They’re on Google (4)January 9, 2025
Microsoft Edge Slurps Tabs From Chrome Without Permission (1)January 9, 2025
Xerox to Acquire Lexmark January 9, 2025
Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search” (7)January 8, 2025
RSS Cache Control (3)January 8, 2025
SysBumps Attack January 8, 2025
LG UltraFine 6K January 8, 2025
Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries (7)January 7, 2025
Coding Font Selection Tournament (12)January 7, 2025
iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1 (2)January 6, 2025
Swift Parameterized Testing January 6, 2025
Sonuby 1.7.1 January 6, 2025
25 Years of the Dock and Aqua (10)January 6, 2025
OpenAI Failed to Deliver Opt-out Tool (1)January 3, 2025
Apple Settles Siri Spying Lawsuit (5)January 3, 2025
Autodesk Deletes Old Forum Posts (5)January 3, 2025
M4 Mac Issues With Ultrawide Monitors (4)January 3, 2025
op run (1)January 2, 2025
The HFS Pixel (1)January 2, 2025
Two Foreground Windows (7)January 2, 2025
Bench Shut Down, Then Acquired January 2, 2025
Retiring Script Debugger (5)January 1, 2025
Scott Knaster Occasionally Misses Expectations (1)January 1, 2025
Privacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search (30)January 1, 2025
Honey Extension Scam (6)January 1, 2025