Decreasing iOS Information Density: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/3… #mjtsaiblog
From iOS to Android and Back Again: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/3… #mjtsaiblog
Software as Business: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/3… #mjtsaiblog
Visual Voicemail Implemented via IMAP: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/3… #mjtsaiblog
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Twitter “Hide Replies” and Timeline Swiping
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Apple Watch Series 5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@lapcatsoftware @dropdmg will let you cancel. :-)
@_asfonseca The stated reason is to provide us with sync across devices. But who knows whether they’re doing anything else with it.
Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Is Single-user Mode Dead?: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
BlockBlock 0.9.9.4: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Twitter “Hide Replies” and Timeline Swiping: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Subscribers Are Your True Fans: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
New Stack Overflow CEO: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
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Mac Pro 2019
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Predatory iOS App Subscriptions… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Apple Watch Series 5
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macOS 10.14.6 Update
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Chrome Updater Bug
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Safari and Privacy
mjtsai.com/blog/2018/03/0…
What… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jamiebishop123 @cmsj Chrome logs you in, but you still have to manually turn on syncing. Whereas, simply entering… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jgordonshare Or, I guess the positive spin is that it already happened but didn’t end up like people thought. Look… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jgordonshare I think there are a bunch of problems. Bad business model. Making components is like meta-development… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@cmsj Yes, Apple can read them. But even if they couldn’t I don’t think that’s OK. And this feature is essentially… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jgordonshare That’s been a prediction for as long as I can remember, but I don’t think we’re much closer to it.
Safari is supposed to be the privacy focused browser, yet it can’t sync my bookmarks between devices without also s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jpohhhh @kuba_suder @eric_young_1 @reneritchie @BryanPietrzak @Ghostery Yep. More links here: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2…
@krzyzanowskim @kuba_suder @BryanPietrzak @eric_young_1 @Ghostery @reneritchie Yeah, I get a 5–10 second freeze in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@reneritchie @kuba_suder @BryanPietrzak @eric_young_1 @Ghostery I started listing some of them here: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/03/1…
@reneritchie @kuba_suder @BryanPietrzak @eric_young_1 @Ghostery Yes, but I don’t think that’s the main problem. Eve… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@kuba_suder @BryanPietrzak @eric_young_1 @Ghostery @reneritchie I like Safari, the interface, the speed, the memory… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@BryanPietrzak @eric_young_1 @Ghostery @kuba_suder @reneritchie Not sure that’s true. This page implies that Safari… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Eschatologuy @z31r4m @littlesnitch @AdGuard It’s not just extensions. As I’ve been writing about, an increasing nu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Chrome Updater Bug Prevents Macs From Booting
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iOS 13 and 13.1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Safari 13 and Extensions: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Mail in iOS 13: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
iPhone Drop Tests: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
iPhone 11 Pro Display Tests: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
What Time Machine Doesn’t Back Up: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
After almost 2 hours, it’s finally done processing. Waiting For Review!
@geoffhackworth Never seen anything like that. I’m guessing it’s iOS-only.
More than an hour after “No errors uploading” and the build still isn’t available in App Store Connect.
@martinsteiger @jgordonshare This is worse, though, because it’s skipping the local backup of stuff that’s *not* in the cloud.
@ccgus That’s what someone else said, but all I get is “Prepare for Upload” and “Waiting For Review” (yes, inconsis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@geoffhackworth Really? I don’t think I’ve *ever* gotten an e-mail when it was done processing. (I do get Waiting f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jgordonshare Best guess: they assume it’s backed up, and most people never have to restore. But you’d think someon… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@amirrajan Thanks. I’m writing about that, but it didn’t fit in the first tweet.
There should be a status API or an e-mail like with notarization. (Or just make App Store Connect notice when the b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Unfortunately, there’s still no way to tell when the build has finished processing so that you can add it to your v… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
However, you can now upload using altool, and this looks to be an improvement over Application Loader. I can just add it to my build script.
Xcode 11 removes Application Loader, and so the documentation says to upload to the Mac App Store from Xcode’s Orga… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
eaglefiler EagleFiler 1.8.10 improves importing from Evernote, searching, indexing, iCloud Drive syncing, and more: c-command.com/blog/2019/09/2…
@jgordonshare Stuff like projects are not synced to the cloud, so I don’t there’s anything to recreate it from. :(
@lapcatsoftware Odd statement. Are they saying that the bug is even more widespread and applies in cases where they don’t have root?
@NSExceptional What do you do about security updates?
Chrome Updater Bug Prevents Macs From Booting: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Patent for Even Thinner MacBook Keyboard: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 13 Full Access Keyboard Extensions Bug: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
watchOS 6 Review: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
The Business Side of Apple Arcade: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 13 and 13.1: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
@pmcg @jgordonshare These types of issues go all the way back to using Macs with modems, satellite, and DSL connect… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@pmcg @jgordonshare I don’t need or want to use it much, so I have a plan with a low cap. Also, I am frequently in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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iPhone 11 Reviews
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Netflix vs. Blockbuster Total Access… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@NSExceptional @lapcatsoftware Yup, I just ran into more unusable xibs after updating to Xcode 11.
@jgordonshare iOS should let you opt out of more stuff. For example, I don’t want to be forced to download photos a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Swift 5.1 Released
mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2…
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@dougscripts Glad to hear it!
@rjonesy @FlightyApp How about making the modifier keys consistent with Fantastical?
Swift 5.1 Released: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.3: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Sending E-mail for Sign in With Apple: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.3: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
Sending E-mail for Sign in With Apple: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/2… #mjtsaiblog
@NSExceptional @mxswd @howardnoakley Do we have real stats on that? Anecdotally, most people I know have very littl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@mxswd @NSExceptional @howardnoakley Exactly.
@howardnoakley @NSExceptional @mxswd It could at least back up what’s stored locally.
@NSExceptional @mxswd @howardnoakley So could most of Mail and Safari’s data, yet those are backed up (for good reason).
@NSExceptional @mxswd @howardnoakley Why wouldn’t it keep a local copy of iCloud Drive?
@GeekAndDad @wilshipley @weichsel I don’t really see that as an issue, because it still brings up UI that tells you… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
spamsieve The iCloud server junk filter seems to be moving lots of good messages to Junk lately (whereas SpamSieve moves mess… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@JerryHu92252309 Sure, send me an e-mail.
@DrewsterBenson You’re welcome. Took me a while to figure that out, so I’m glad to hear that people are finding it.
@wilshipley @weichsel Exactly, or in response to a script. I mean, it’s cool that there’s a standard UI across apps… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@McCloudStrife There’s breaking apps, and then there’s also the increasing amount of table stakes stuff that everyo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@wincent That’s one way, but suppose you just want one app to pay for its own maintenance as a side project? There… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
APFS Enumeration Performance on Rotational Hard Drives: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
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iPhone 11 Reviews
mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1…
#mjtsaiblog
Scanbot Goes Freemium: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Pocket Casts Goes Freemium: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
IAP Using Audible Credits: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
IAP Using Audible Credits: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
IAP Using Audible Credits: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
IAP Using Audible Credits: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Serializing Heterogenous Arrays With Codable: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
@agilethumbs Annoying, but I guess it’s supposed to be a feature that you can avoid the file being created if you d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@gpdawson @rosyna So it seems like either there was some *other* reason, or they didn’t think this through, or they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@gpdawson @rosyna And if the goal was to improve debugging output, there is a separate -debugDescription method for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@gpdawson @rosyna If the goal was more compact logs, it seems like this could have been fixed by changing -descript… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rosyna Yes, I understand there are reasons for wanting a truncated description. Perhaps the real mistake was tryin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@sanguish Not in the OS X era, AFAIK. I agree that it’s a bad idea to rely on description in general. But this was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@sanguish So there’s never been an API to create NeXT-style property lists? “Wrong” implies that there was a consci… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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App Store to Copy the Best Ideas
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U1
mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1…
MRT… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
iPhone 11 Reviews: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Tweaks Rules for Children’s Apps and Sign-in: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Breaking the NSData.description Contract: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Google’s Privacy Sandbox: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Recreating Mac Desktop Picture Photos: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Faster Xcode Rename Refactoring: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
TextMate 2.0: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
MRT Updates: Informed Security: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Notarization Provider IDs: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Anyone have information about the Bluetooth security prompts in macOS 10.15 Catalina? Like how to reset them or vie… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@rsebbe @gruber I agree it’s not fair. Lots of things will never be fair given that they write the OS and make the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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iMessage, NSKeyedArchiver, and _NSDataFileBackedFuture
mjtsai.com/blog/2019/08/2…
What Happene… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Apple’s Message to Customers About iPhone Batteries and Performance
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iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1…
Apple Watch Series 5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Billing Grace Period for App Store Subscriptions: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
PLCrashReporter Stewardship Moving to Microsoft: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
User Tracking via Custom Fonts: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
The Apple U1 Chip in iPhone 11: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
AppleCare+ Indefinite Subscriptions: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
How Apple Uses Its App Store to Copy the Best Ideas: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
@jim_ratliff It should be “organize.” Fixed; thanks!
@McCloudStrife Yeah, I’ve seen lots of failed OS updates. Maybe the problem only occurs if it fails while updating… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
How to Restore BridgeOS on Your T2 Mac: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Sunsetting Python 2: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
iCloud Calendar e-mail notifications continue to be broken: many never arrive, duplicates, “added by” field incorrect.
@scottdensmore Thanks.
@galooticus @lapcatsoftware ReadKit, syncing with TT RSS. Hope to eventually switch to NNW 5.
@lapcatsoftware Yep, forgot to set that feed to auto-refresh, so there should be about a week showing up all at once.
@scottdensmore Looks really cool. Is there any Mac/Xcode-specific documentation?
@NSSynapse Thanks! Sorry about that. I think it’s now fixed and should update automatically again, but please let m… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
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Apple Expected to Remove 3D Touch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apple’s Fall Release Schedule: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Removing Amazon Cloud Drive From Transmit: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Clark Goble, RIP: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
How to Flip an App for Profit: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Arcade Pricing Announced: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
@grynspan Yes.
@mattstevens Wow, and it looks like they may have finally fixed indentation of Objective-C dictionary literals.
@gmarnin Thanks!
Apple Watch Series 5: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Longtime Finder Alias Keyboard Shortcuts Now Mutate Photos: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Music on the Web Beta: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
Manipulating the System Policy Database with Configuration Profiles: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/1… #mjtsaiblog
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Apple Apps in App Store Search Results
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What I Want From the 2019 iP… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Seemingly still now MP4 download for the WWDC keynote video, and it’s not in the podcast feed, either. Is Apple not… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@howardnoakley @rosyna Yeah, changing the date for preexisting to the future creates a new category that was specifically prohibited before.
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Notarization Requirements Relaxed
mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0…
iCloud Drive Features Removed/Pos… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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In-Screen Touch ID Coming Back to iPhone
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Storing Your Apple Card Wr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Apple Responds to Project Zero
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A 101-year-old TidBITS Reader… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
What I Want From the 2019 iPhones: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
DOJ Asks Apple to Identify Users of Gun Scope App: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Apps in App Store Search Results: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Twitter Is Finally Working on Search for DMs: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
@stroughtonsmith :( I actually see both of these issues with Xcode 10 sometimes, too.
@numist @jckarter @sanguish Take a look at developer.apple.com/documentation/… The only class listed is NSDerivedAttributeDescr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@iljawascoding @timacfr Seems to bad that PT_DENY_ATTACH blocks debugging *and* sampling. The latter seems much les… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@eternalstorms This is one of the reasons I wrote EagleFiler: c-command.com/eaglefiler/
@iljawascoding I’m not seeing that problem.
@grynspan iMac
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Windmill
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In-Screen Touch ID Coming Back to iPhone… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Responds to Project Zero: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
@diglloyd Regarding macperformanceguide.com/blog/2019/2019…, I don’t think HFS+ stores fractional seconds: developer.apple.com/library/archiv…
@NSExceptional The SE has the original, slow Touch ID chip.
@timohetzel I guess? Caching and not putting (old) updated posts into the feed are the only major issues I can thin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@gingerbeardman Thanks. Currently using WP Super Cache and a cron job using “rm” because the cache doesn’t always u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The cron issue was fixed (I think) by putting the relevant commands in a shell script and invoking that via cron, i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I don’t really understand why WordPress caching doesn’t do the right thing out of the box.
Sorry for the recent days where RSS and Twitter updates were delayed by several hours. I think I’ve finally got cro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Significant iOS Vulnerabilities Used Against Uyghur Muslims in China: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Search Ads for Competing Products: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
In-Screen Touch ID Coming Back to iPhone: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Gmail for iOS Can Now Block Web Bugs: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
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Congratulations
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iCloud Drive Features Removed/Postponed… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Run Commands, the ‘rc’ in ‘.bashrc’: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
What Beta Means: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Notarization Requirements Relaxed: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
How to Manage Audiobooks in a Post-iTunes World: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Red Eye Rejected From The Mac App Store: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
iCloud Drive Features Removed/Postponed: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
@tjluoma Glad that it worked!
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Ending the “npm Install Funding” Experiment
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App Store Editorial Sto… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@danielmunoz There’s no relation.
dropdmg DropDMG 3.5.7 improves setting disk image layouts, converting disk images, works around a bug with custom icons, an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
bbautocomplete BBAutoComplete 1.6.1 improves compatibility with macOS 10.15 and works better with BBEdit: c-command.com/blog/2019/09/0…
Thirty Years of Fetch: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Time Tracking with Timeular: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Google Begins Penalising Domain Leasing: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
Ending the “npm Install Funding” Experiment: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog
PrivilegedHelperTools and Checking XPC Peers: mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/0… #mjtsaiblog