{"id":52533,"date":"2026-07-06T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52533"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:45:04","slug":"whatcable-1-1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/06\/whatcable-1-1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatCable 1.1.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatcable.uk\/\">Darryl Morley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.whatcable.uk\/\">\n<p>WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. Name a cable and it tracks how the cable actually performs over time, so you can spot the one that has started misbehaving. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neofinder.de\/forum\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?t=363\">Norbert M. Doerner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.neofinder.de\/forum\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?t=363\">\n<p>It is open source, free, and definitely a tool to look into, if you have external drives on your Mac!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/12\/script-to-detect-slow-usb-c-cables\/\">Script to Detect Slow USB-C Cables<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/18\/usb-c-cables-comparison\/\">USB-C Cables Comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Morley: WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. Name a cable and it tracks how the cable actually performs over time, so you can spot the one that has started misbehaving. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display. Via Norbert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-06T18:45:08Z","apple_news_api_id":"4a91c9d6-e3e6-4dfe-b054-9f8b7f91d004","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-06T18:45:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASpHJ1uPmTf6wVJ-Lf5HQBA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90,30,32,2742,74,175,1154,2941],"class_list":["post-52533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cable","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-opensource","tag-usb","tag-usb-c","tag-whatcable"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52534,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52533\/revisions\/52534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}