December 2020

Tiny Open and Save Dialogs in Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

NSURL/SMB Precomposed Character Bug: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Tiny Open and Save Dialogs in Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

NSURL/SMB Precomposed Character Bug: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Tiny Open and Save Dialogs in Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

NSURL/SMB Precomposed Character Bug: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Tiny Open and Save Dialogs in Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

NSURL/SMB Precomposed Character Bug: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Google Authenticator 3.1: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

The Case of the Extra 40 ms: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Gazelle Ending Used Device Trade-ins: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

20 Macs for 2020: #1 – iMac G3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

20 Macs for 2020: #1 – iMac G3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

20 Macs for 2020: #1 – iMac G3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

20 Macs for 2020: #1 – iMac G3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Bait-and-Switch Amazon Reviews: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Multiple Active Rust Teams: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

No More Big Sur Internet Recovery: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

Mojave Security Update Removes Support for Automatic Snapshots: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/3… #mjtsaiblog

9:34 AM, Dec 30th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jcenters

@jcenters Congrats!

Apple Loses Copyright Claims Against Corellium: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Mac App Store Updates Failing on Mojave: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Essential and Accidental Complexity in Programming: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

11:48 AM, Dec 28th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@lapcatsoftware That’s definitely helpful, although I often want to begin the selection within the link and select… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@lapcatsoftware I wish I could select text within a clickable link in Safari by holding down a modifier key. I thin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

11:35 AM, Dec 28th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to mjtsai

@lapcatsoftware Great idea!

11:32 AM, Dec 28th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

Posts updated today:

Swift Proposal for async/await
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0…

Apple M1 Benchmarks… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

1:32 PM, Dec 24th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Posts updated today:

Facebook Protests App Tracking Transparency
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1…

App Store Small Busines… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

1:31 PM, Dec 24th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

SwiftUI Layout Explained: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Apple Removes Unlicensed Games From China App Store: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Apple’s “Privacy Nutrition Labels” Are a Blessing and a Curse: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

How to Favicon in 2021: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

ProRAW: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

11:02 PM, Dec 23rd, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to z31r4m

@z31r4m I don’t know.

@alexisgallagher I must have missed the resolution. Do you have a link?

5:02 PM, Dec 23rd, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to alexisgallagher

self in a Swift Self-executing Anonymous Closure: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Cellebrite and Signal: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

How Amazon Wins: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

The Big Sur Sneeze: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

groups.io Pricing Changes: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

10:23 AM, Dec 23rd, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to deanpierce

@deanpierce @BrendanEich No, the point is that we don’t want Apple to be able to derive anything. They use the term e2e in the same way.

@deanpierce @BrendanEich The two ends are your device being backed up from and your device being restored to. Apple… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

7:27 AM, Dec 23rd, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to deanpierce

Booting an M1 Mac From an External Disk: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

4:54 PM, Dec 22nd, 2020 via IFTTT

Undocumented NSShadow Change on Catalina: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

4:54 PM, Dec 22nd, 2020 via IFTTT

dropdmg DropDMG 3.6.1 runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs, integrates with App Wrapper and SD Notary, improves the document… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

1:33 PM, Dec 22nd, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 1:34 PM, Dec 22nd, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

LG 27UK850-W: An Acceptable 27-inch Display: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Zoom Executive Charged With Suppressing Calls: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

FFmpeg Is 20 Years Old: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

Ruby 3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

PHP 8: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

S3 Strong Consistency: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/2… #mjtsaiblog

8:51 PM, Dec 17th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jaywalkn

eaglefiler EagleFiler 1.9.2 improves searching, tags, importing from Twitter and Evernote, and more: c-command.com/blog/2020/12/2…

11:07 AM, Dec 21st, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 11:08 AM, Dec 21st, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

Stripe’s Payments APIs: the First Ten Years: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

5:19 PM, Dec 18th, 2020 via IFTTT

Apple Silicon Mac mini for Continuous Integration: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

5:19 PM, Dec 18th, 2020 via IFTTT

Web Search Indexes and Ecosia in Safari: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

5:19 PM, Dec 18th, 2020 via IFTTT

Apple TV App for Google Chromecast: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

5:09 PM, Dec 18th, 2020 via IFTTT

Apple’s New Map: Canada: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

5:04 PM, Dec 18th, 2020 via IFTTT

@jaywalkn It’s not a very satisfying explanation because all anonymous sources, Apple wouldn’t comment, and apparen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@jaywalkn Apparently. My post on that is linked at the bottom.

8:44 PM, Dec 17th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to jaywalkn

@gruber Can we get an update on this piece since the court filings show that Epic was telling the truth? daringfireball.net/linked/2020/09…

8:24 PM, Dec 17th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

No More Downloadable macOS Updates: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Where Is End-to-End Encryption for iCloud?: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Where Is End-to-End Encryption for iCloud?: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Little Snitch 5.1 Beta: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Pruning GitHub’s Code Search Index: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

iOS Autocorrect and the Delete Key: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Texas vs. Google: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

3:08 PM, Dec 17th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to betalogue

@betalogue @lapcatsoftware At least with a browser you can bookmark pages, make multiple windows/tabs, find within the page, etc.

@ClassicII_MrMac So I should save a copy of the 12 GB installer?

11:52 AM, Dec 17th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to ClassicII_MrMac

Still no downloadable macOS 11.1 update?

11:02 AM, Dec 17th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Preview in Big Sur Destroying PDFs Again: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Podcasts in Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Facebook Protests App Tracking Transparency: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

SolarWinds Breach: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

3:24 PM, Dec 16th, 2020 via Twitter Web App in reply to mmunz

Posts updated today:

macOS 11.1
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1…

Chrome Updater May Cause Mac Slowness… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4:53 PM, Dec 16th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Posts updated today:

Cydia Sues Apple
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1…

Remote Work and Apple
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/10/0…

Swi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4:53 PM, Dec 16th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Posts updated today:

The Apple Silicon M1
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/11/1…

Apple M1 Benchmarks
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/11/1…

F… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4:52 PM, Dec 16th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

@mmunz I haven’t heard back, either, except to say they would have a decision by December 30.

@FossilizedDev @tapbot_paul I use that one, too.

11:05 AM, Dec 16th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to FossilizedDev

@_AngeloidBeta Perhaps, although I wouldn’t expect that to show up in WindowServer. Have you tried it with Keystone… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

8:32 PM, Dec 14th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to _AngeloidBeta

Chrome Updater May Cause Mac Slowness: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

3:54 PM, Dec 14th, 2020 via IFTTT

Gmail Click-time Link Protections: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

“Damaged” Apps That Can’t Be Opened: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Xcode 12.3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

macOS 11.1: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Microsoft Productivity Score: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

9:02 PM, Dec 13th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to tempelorg

@tempelorg My customers have been getting that error, too, but when using .dmgs (which passed checksumming). Seems… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Swift Concurrency Interoperability With Objective-C: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Path Finder 10: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Lightroom Classic 10 Slowness: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Cydia Sues Apple: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

Apple Retiring Music Memos App: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

10:43 AM, Dec 11th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to DamienPetrilli

spamsieve SpamSieve 2.9.41 adds support for macOS 11.1, improves compaibility with Apple Silicon Macs and Small Cubed MailSui… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

1:26 PM, Dec 11th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 1:27 PM, Dec 11th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

@DamienPetrilli I’m still seeing editor issues. Not many compiler crashes lately. How can you really avoid generics… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@DamienPetrilli Are you referring to compiler crashes? Or the editor breaking down?

10:23 AM, Dec 11th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to DamienPetrilli

@NSExceptional @DamienPetrilli This came up because I rewrote some old MRC code in Swift.

9:40 PM, Dec 10th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NSExceptional

Posts updated today:

Reviving or Restoring a Mac With Apple Silicon
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0…

AirPods Max… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4:41 PM, Dec 10th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Upgrading From an iPhone XR to an iPhone 12 mini: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

4:34 PM, Dec 10th, 2020 via IFTTT

Making TextEdit Create an Untitled Document at Launch: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

4:34 PM, Dec 10th, 2020 via IFTTT

Rewriting the Uber App in Swift: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/1… #mjtsaiblog

4:34 PM, Dec 10th, 2020 via IFTTT

@DamienPetrilli I’m finding that iterating and sorting arrays of objects is slower than in Objective-C (MRC) becaus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

1:59 PM, Dec 10th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to DamienPetrilli

@lapcatsoftware None of my Radars ever got a reply. I did recently hear from a Mail user inside Apple who can repro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

11:36 AM, Dec 10th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to lapcatsoftware

@tjluoma In this case, I thought if you *had* turned it off that would explain why the iOS app didn’t launch.

8:34 PM, Dec 9th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to tjluoma

@tjluoma I think it’s not very common. I usually hear about people turning SIP off because granting a permission fa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

8:33 PM, Dec 9th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to tjluoma

Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

HoudahSpot 6.0: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

Cloudflare Web Analytics for Everyone: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

iOS App Privacy Labels: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

10:26 AM, Dec 9th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rudyrichter

Posts updated today:

Hazel 5
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/11/2…

Big Sur’s Narrow Alerts
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/0…

#mjtsaiblog

4:59 PM, Dec 9th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

@rudyrichter @peternlewis Not in the logs I’ve seen so far.

@rudyrichter @peternlewis Name and objects are both static strings. Observer is registering for object:nil.

9:37 AM, Dec 9th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rudyrichter

@rudyrichter @peternlewis Not sure. There’s no info dictionary, and some notifications with this poster and observe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

8:55 AM, Dec 9th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rudyrichter

@rudyrichter @peternlewis Sandboxed sender.

8:02 AM, Dec 9th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to rudyrichter

@tjluoma Did you turn off SIP?

10:05 PM, Dec 8th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to tjluoma

@peternlewis Thanks. I haven’t been able to reproduce it myself yet, but I have enough similar reports that I know something’s going on.

8:49 PM, Dec 8th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to peternlewis

AirPods Max: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

5:04 PM, Dec 8th, 2020 via IFTTT

Reviving or Restoring a Mac With Apple Silicon: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

5:04 PM, Dec 8th, 2020 via IFTTT

Posts updated today:

Resources for Learning Objective-C and AppKit
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/04/1…

Safari 14.0.1 Is Miss… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4:56 PM, Dec 8th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Posts updated today:

Rosetta 2 Not Preinstalled
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/11/1…

The Apple Silicon M1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4:56 PM, Dec 8th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Anyone else having intermittent problems with NSDistributedNotificationCenter on M1 Macs? The same notification wor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

11:58 AM, Dec 8th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Swift Proposal for async/await: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

App Store Best of 2020: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

Making a Self-Quoting Tweet: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

TCC Doesn’t Prevent Protected Folders From Being Listed: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

An iOS Zero-click Radio Proximity Exploit Odyssey: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

Family Sharing for Subscriptions and IAPs: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

Beman Dawes, RIP: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

BlueMail Antitrust Case Against Apple Dismissed: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

iOS Apps on Mac Require System Integrity Protection: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

2:30 PM, Dec 4th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to NSExceptional

Posts updated today:

Enrolling in the App Store Small Business Program
mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0…

Potential… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4:40 PM, Dec 4th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

@NSExceptional You can run whatever code you want on your Mac, just not at the same time. :(

If I’m reading this right, since eligibility depends on the sales net of Apple’s commission, the line will *move* (… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

9:37 AM, Dec 4th, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

Enrolling in the App Store Small Business Program: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

4:19 PM, Dec 3rd, 2020 via IFTTT

Salesforce Buys Slack: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

4:19 PM, Dec 3rd, 2020 via IFTTT

Official macOS Hosting and Amazon EC2: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

4:19 PM, Dec 3rd, 2020 via IFTTT

Great to see that @RogueAmoeba and @panic are hiring.

twitter.com/Fahrni/status/…

twitter.com/panic/status/1…

2:18 PM, Dec 3rd, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac

@macguitar Congrats! One of my favorite apps.

8:18 PM, Dec 2nd, 2020 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to macguitar

Sketch’s Big Sur App Icon: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

OmniFocus 3.11 for Mac: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog

Is Big Sur’s System Volume Sealed?: mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/0… #mjtsaiblog