Recently Updated

I often add updates to old posts. This page lists posts that I’ve edited after the day when they were originally posted.

• Apple Dropped Plans for End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Backups After FBI Objected posted 2020-01-21, updated 2020-01-22
• Farewell, Carcassonne posted 2020-01-20, updated 2020-01-22
• Who Will Steal Android From Google? posted 2018-07-05, updated 2020-01-22
• App Rejections Are a Lousy Way to Communicate Policy Changes posted 2012-03-26, updated 2020-01-20
• Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs posted 2008-11-20, updated 2020-01-20
• Mac App Store posted 2010-10-22, updated 2020-01-20
• Private API Is the Wrong Question posted 2010-04-08, updated 2020-01-20
• iBooks and Private APIs posted 2010-04-06, updated 2020-01-20
• Broken iOS Cellular Data Switch posted 2019-07-26, updated 2020-01-19
• Composite Mac Desktop Picture posted 2020-01-16, updated 2020-01-17
• Build Your Own Damn HIG posted 2006-10-23, updated 2020-01-13
• Testing the 2019 Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR posted 2020-01-06, updated 2020-01-10
• Mac Pro Available to Order posted 2019-12-10, updated 2020-01-10
• 1Password Takes Accel Investment posted 2019-11-15, updated 2020-01-10
• Chosen-Prefix Collision for SHA-1 posted 2020-01-08, updated 2020-01-10
• Brydge Pro+: iPad Keyboard With Trackpad posted 2020-01-02, updated 2020-01-10
• Twitter Will Add Options to Limit Replies posted 2020-01-08, updated 2020-01-10
• Apple Watch and AirPods Have Overtaken Peak iPod posted 2019-12-12, updated 2020-01-10
• Project Connected Home Over IP posted 2019-12-20, updated 2020-01-10
• Front and Center 1.0.1 posted 2020-01-09, updated 2020-01-10
• Custom Fonts on iOS posted 2017-03-29, updated 2020-01-10
• Third-Party Apple TV Remote posted 2019-12-10, updated 2020-01-08
• ToTok and TikTok posted 2019-12-23, updated 2020-01-07
• 20 Years Ago: Internet Explorer 5 and iTools posted 2020-01-06, updated 2020-01-07
• Why You Can’t Save a logarchive There posted 2020-01-03, updated 2020-01-06
• Windmill for iPhone Rejected From the App Store posted 2019-08-08, updated 2020-01-06
• Persistent History Tracking in Core Data posted 2019-08-21, updated 2020-01-06
• General Magic posted 2004-01-06, updated 2020-01-03
• John Vlissides, RIP posted 2005-11-28, updated 2020-01-03
• App Architecture: iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift posted 2018-05-15, updated 2020-01-03
• Design Patterns Failed. Why? Should We Care? posted 2018-04-06, updated 2020-01-03
• Design Patterns of 1972 posted 2006-09-12, updated 2020-01-03
• Blocks + GCD Design Patterns posted 2011-02-24, updated 2020-01-03
• The Success of Intelligent Tracking Prevention posted 2019-12-11, updated 2020-01-03
• Apps Lost With Catalina posted 2019-10-15, updated 2020-01-03
• Opting Out of Sharing Siri Audio Recordings posted 2019-10-13, updated 2020-01-03
• Apple’s Filing Against Corellium and Jailbreaking posted 2019-12-30, updated 2020-01-03
• A Better Finder Rename 11 posted 2019-10-15, updated 2020-01-02
• Genius Accuses Google of Copying Its Lyrics Data posted 2019-06-17, updated 2020-01-02
• Equifax Breach Settlement posted 2019-07-25, updated 2020-01-02
• .org Top-Level Domain Sold posted 2019-11-25, updated 2020-01-02
• “Erase Mac” Doesn’t? posted 2019-12-30, updated 2020-01-01
• The iPad’s Identity Crisis posted 2019-12-27, updated 2019-12-31
• Apple Shutting Down Developer Mailing Lists posted 2014-01-08, updated 2019-12-30
• Copyright Exhaustion Does Not Apply to E-books posted 2019-12-26, updated 2019-12-30
• Tony Brooker, RIP posted 2019-12-16, updated 2019-12-30
• Where to Get Apple Products Repaired posted 2019-11-20, updated 2019-12-30
• Dropbox No Longer Follows External Symlinks posted 2019-12-27, updated 2019-12-30
• Running Old iOS Versions posted 2018-01-11, updated 2019-12-30
• Apple Files Lawsuit Against Corellium for iOS Virtualization posted 2019-08-16, updated 2019-12-30
• Apple v. Corellium posted 2019-10-29, updated 2019-12-30
• One Year After “The Big Hack” posted 2019-10-09, updated 2019-12-30
• Mac OS X 10.11.4 and iOS 9.3 posted 2016-03-24, updated 2019-12-30
• Activation Lock Status Checker Removed posted 2017-01-31, updated 2019-12-30
• Apple News No Longer Supports RSS posted 2019-12-26, updated 2019-12-28
• Putting the “Author” in “Authoritative” posted 2019-12-26, updated 2019-12-27
• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy posted 2019-12-19, updated 2019-12-27
• App Store to Ban Deprecated UIWebView posted 2019-12-24, updated 2019-12-26
• Catalyst and Cohesion posted 2019-12-16, updated 2019-12-26
• Persistent File Access via com.apple.macl Xattr posted 2019-12-18, updated 2019-12-26
• Chuck Peddle, RIP posted 2019-12-23, updated 2019-12-26
• My December Product Updates posted 2018-12-20, updated 2019-12-24
• Breaking the NSData.description Contract posted 2019-09-17, updated 2019-12-23
• The True and False Security Benefits of Mac App Notarization posted 2019-04-22, updated 2019-12-23
• Catalina System Issues posted 2019-10-15, updated 2019-12-23
• Apple Platform Security Guide (Fall 2019) posted 2019-12-19, updated 2019-12-23
• Apple Stops Staingate Repairs After 4 Years posted 2019-12-20, updated 2019-12-22
• Annoying Catalina Security Features posted 2019-07-23, updated 2019-12-20
• Search Ads for Competing Products posted 2019-09-05, updated 2019-12-20
• Full Steam Ahead, But With Feature Flags posted 2019-11-21, updated 2019-12-20
• Quantum Computing and APFS: Free and Used Space posted 2019-04-11, updated 2019-12-20
• The Influence of Organizational Structure on Software Quality posted 2013-08-14, updated 2019-12-20
• OmniPresence 1.0 posted 2013-05-22, updated 2019-12-19
• Dropbox 1.0 posted 2010-12-17, updated 2019-12-19
• Google Drive and Mac Metadata posted 2012-05-07, updated 2019-12-19
• Apple File System (APFS) posted 2016-06-17, updated 2019-12-19
• Dropbox posted 2008-11-26, updated 2019-12-19
• What Backblaze Doesn’t Back Up posted 2014-05-22, updated 2019-12-19
• Fixing rsync on Tiger posted 2006-01-16, updated 2019-12-19
• Disable and Recover from Mac OS X’s Quarantine posted 2009-12-03, updated 2019-12-19
• CrashPlan 3 posted 2010-12-07, updated 2019-12-19
• BitTorrent Sync 1.0.116 posted 2013-04-26, updated 2019-12-19
• AppleScript and Code Signing in Sierra posted 2016-09-27, updated 2019-12-19
• iCloud Drive Can Strip Metadata From Your Documents posted 2018-01-08, updated 2019-12-19
• Can macOS Tell How Large a File Really Is? posted 2018-02-15, updated 2019-12-19
• Gatekeeper Path Randomization posted 2016-06-16, updated 2019-12-19
• Quarantine: Apps and Documents posted 2019-05-06, updated 2019-12-19
• Sandboxing Makes Quarantine Flags Almost Meaningless posted 2019-04-16, updated 2019-12-19
• xattr Flags and iCloud Drive posted 2019-07-23, updated 2019-12-19
• Apple Park’s Open Work Spaces posted 2017-07-27, updated 2019-12-19
• NIOTransportServices: SwiftNIO and Network.framework posted 2018-07-19, updated 2019-12-19
• SwiftNIO posted 2018-03-01, updated 2019-12-19
• Electron Apps Rejected From the Mac App Store posted 2019-11-04, updated 2019-12-17
• Direct Objective-C Properties posted 2019-11-19, updated 2019-12-17
• Apple’s Technology Transitions posted 2019-12-06, updated 2019-12-17
• Catalina Removes Malware Assurance posted 2019-12-16, updated 2019-12-17
• iPhone 11 Location Data Puzzler posted 2019-12-09, updated 2019-12-17
• Shopping Sucks Now posted 2019-12-16, updated 2019-12-17
• Linea 3 to Switch to Subscriptions posted 2019-12-11, updated 2019-12-16
• AirPods Pro posted 2019-10-29, updated 2019-12-16