I'm now on attempt number four to set up my new iPhone. I got pretty far on the last run! It ended when I accidentally pressed the Camera Control on my old phone, which immediately aborts the setup/transfer process. Of course it does! So sensible. Now waiting for the third erase of the new […]

I was listening to the @atpfm member's special and got hit by this absolute nostalgia blast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQtzd9l2Uvo

AI has advanced enough to suggest file name from its content, but not enough to support whitespaces

:tapestry_app: This is the update you've been waiting for. Coming soon to the App Store. https://tapestry.iconfactory.com #OpenWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #TapestryApp

After being bounced back and forth multiple times between regular Apple support and Apple Developer support, both claiming that this is the other party's problem to solve, I am now looking for anyone at Apple who can put me in touch with the folks that control the system that "locks" Apple […]

Upgrade to OSName 27

Excited to try this update! (Thanks, CDN propagation…?)

I'm starting to add A/UX to Infinite Mac (thanks to the awesome Snow emulator). An early version (with a few releases) is available at https://infinitemac.org/?filter=aux Would appreciate any leads for 1.0 or 1.0.1 install media (or pre-installed images), and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

These DRs are H.

A perllsp process (written in Rust, I think?) went rogue overnight and consumed about 500 GB of RAM, making my Mac very unhappy. (No time to debug it, so I uninstalled it.)

It's almost a blessing that Verizon Fios is putting TiVo out of its misery in November (by discontinuing CableCARD support).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/117196097301277170 I eventually got back in by changing my password from a Mac that was still signed into this Apple ID, but that revoked all my app-specific passwords, which was a giant pain. …and now I'm locked out again.

John Siracusa@siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

I've had to "unlock" my developer Apple ID once every 5 days on average for the past three months, and once per day for the past three days. Each time I do it, I have to perform a delicate dance to navigate what seems to be some kind of request throttling that gives me HTTP 503 responses during […]

I only had to wait 480 days… https://hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/apple-turnover

Apple Turnover

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I've had to "unlock" my developer Apple ID once every 5 days on average for the past three months, and once per day for the past three days. Each time I do it, I have to perform a delicate dance to navigate what seems to be some kind of request throttling that gives me HTTP 503 responses during […]

My terminal app built on SwiftTerm also has a new theme picker, because themes were overwhelming. Looks fun, but the visualization are not quite as useful as I imagined it would be.

With everything having notifications now, I’m waiting for someone to invent a notification that can have its own notifications

New post at Shirt Pocket Watch - Catching Up https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/catching_up_2

New blog post where I discuss SuperDuper 4's "follow-up" runs, file protection classes, and hidden detail work that does the right thing without drawing attention to itself. https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/catching_up_2 #SuperDuper #macOS

It is madness that you can't build, run and debug from one Mac to another Mac from Xcode in 2026. Visual Studio has had that since Windows 8 shipped, at least, a decade and a half ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@atpfm/117162643534245852 (And, yes, I pronounced “patriarchy” the British way multiple times in this episode, for some reason. I blame British TV.)

We’re delighted to have been asked to create the icon for Jeff Halter’s free, open-source macOS Tahoe app, which brings the original classic Mac After Dark screensaver modules back to life. Looking for a hand-crafted icon for your app? Get in touch […] [Original post on iconfactory.world]

New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in five years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal and gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the scorching days, batteries release stored sun through the evening, and wind picks up after dark. The […]

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117134233627329540 This has been killing me as well.

Someone just sent this to me. I remember first seeing it back then in…an official WWDC QuickTime movie from Apple, distributed on optical discs, maybe? Anyway, can you imagine today’s Apple even keeping a moment like this in an “official” video? (Apple did keep @marcoarment’s bell in that one […]

Browsers were made to display walls of text, it’s the one thing they do best. They can literally render the entire War and Peace as a single static HTML page, no problems. So why is your annoying React app removing (“virtualizing”) 8 paragraphs of a tiny 10-paragraph document the moment they go […]

Ever since Xcode 26, SwiftUI previews haven't worked at all unless I disable sandboxing in my app. If I don't do that, I get this error: XOJITError: Could not create code file directory for session: Permission denied I keep hoping a new version of Xcode and/or macOS will fix it, but it's the […]

Up-right, right, right, up-right, down. Fatality!

New post at Shirt Pocket Watch - SupererDuperer https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer