Happy #iPadOS 26.5 release day, fellow #SafariExtension devs! It fixes the bug introed in 26.4 causing Safari to ALWAYS crash if users tried to open ANY extension's popup while using Compact Tabs. Imagine this had already shipped in 26.4.1/.2: we'd have missed out on so many unwarranted 1★ reviews!

"Das Gewicht der Welt" runs tomorrow at Cinecitta in Nuremberg, 11 AM - with a subsequent discussion with the director and one of the protagonists as part of their movie tour. Probably not an easy film to watch, but an important one. I'll be there & look forward to the film and the discussion. 1/2

#TimeMachine on #macOS 26.5 still failed trying to back up to my Samba server. The fix was to remove fruit:time machine max size=… from the share's configuration. As an alternative one can use tmutil to enforce a quota: tmutil destinationinfo sudo tmutil setquota [destination uuid] [quota-in-gb]

TIL the S.M.A.R.T. power on hours of the drives in a rented server have now lapsed at least twice (integer overflowing at 65.536 hours), meaning they've run for ~132K hours (~15 years) non-stop. 🤯

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WHAT benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/... cc @fasterthanli.me for cursed Mac shit

benjojo:

This MacOS (APFS?) quirk was mentioned at the pub last night, and I still cannot believe this actually works when I tried it myself

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✅ COVID and flu shots for this season

TIL a new word: workslop. "AI-generated ‘workslop’ is here. It’s killing teamwork and causing a multimillion dollar productivity problem, researchers say" 1/3

Vidimote 1.9 for Safari for #macOS26 #Tahoe is out! What's new: - redesigned PiP extension: now with position slider & Skip button - overlay actions like Skip & PiP now grouped - adopts liquid glass in native UI Web: www.iospirit.com/products/vid... Mac App Store: apps.apple.com/app/vidimote...

When Apple announced Pasteboard Privacy in May, the assumption was that it'll arrive in the next major macOS release. But AFAICS - unless you turn it on explicitly via defaults - it seems absent in the macOS 26. 1/2

Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift

The Group Labs at #WWDC25 were fun and informative, providing information and context not available in the videos and dev docs. If you missed any, DTS has published transcripts on the Developer Forums: developer.apple.com/forums/searc...

Why would I want to ever sign in to ChatGPT then, Xcode?

Just spent hours trying to install macOS 26b2 on an external SSD. After rebooting, it just wouldn't complete but boot back into macOS on the internal SSD eventually. 1/3

I had hoped that the Mac mini M1 with 8GB RAM would be sufficient to explore Xcode 26 and *OS 26 development. But no. 1/2

Xcode 26 adds an option to generate string catalog comments for newly-added strings by analyzing surrounding source code. Will be interesting to see in action. #WWDC25

Looks like you can only use Xcode's AI features when installing Tahoe on the internal SSD of your Apple silicon Mac. I tried all other options: -it's not supported on Sequoia -it's not supported on Intel Macs -it's not supported in VMs -it's not supported when the system is on an external drive 1/2

New in macOS Tahoe: the OS alerts the user if an app continues to run after the user closed it. #WWDC25

Two surprises from the new PaperKit framework session: - it's UIKit-/AppKit-first - the class names have no prefixes Video: developer.apple.com/videos/play/... #WWDC25

LOL, the Touch Bar also got an update 😜 #WWDC25

Containerization looks very impressive - essentially allowing to pull and run Docker images and containers with Apple-provided tools and frameworks. It even appears to allow running x86 images on Apple silicon. 1/2 #WWDC25

Meet Containerization - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer

Meet Containerization, an open source project written in Swift to create and run Linux containers on your Mac. Learn how Containerization...

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Good and bad news after watching "Finish tasks in the background": The good: unlike what I initially believed after watching the keynote, the new background capabilities also come to iOS. 🎉 1/2 #WWDC25

Finish tasks in the background - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer

Discover background execution advancements and understand how the system schedules runtime. We'll discuss how to get the most out of...

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The Finder window in "Meet Liquid Glass" (9:59) looks different than what I see on my Mac in the Dev Preview: - better contrast between elements and content - higher line height - permanently visible disclosure triangles in the sidebar 1/2 #WWDC25

I really hope Apple will improve the contrast of the new UI on macOS before release. Looking at Finder, f.ex., as it is right now, everything looks like it's bleeding together - with barely identifiable boundaries between sidebar and content. 1/2 #WWDC25

macOS 26 Tahoe is the final release for Intel Macs #SOTU #WWDC25

"Adopting Liquid Glass" covering - at first glance - UIKit and SwiftUI: developer.apple.com/documentatio... #WWDC25

Adopting Liquid Glass | Apple Developer Documentation

Find out how to bring the new material to your app.

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FWIW I'm offered the macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta on my Intel MBP, too. #WWDC25

Downloads are up - and include links to Release Notes (which still 404 for me): - Downloads: developer.apple.com/download/ - macOS 26 RN: developer.apple.com/documentatio... - iOS/iPadOS 26 RN: developer.apple.com/documentatio... #WWDC25

Massive WebKit updates in Safari 26 beta: - SVG icons - WebKit in SwiftUI - <model> on visionOS - WebGPU support - CSS updates - … webkit.org/blog/16993/n... #WWDC25

News from WWDC25: WebKit in Safari 26 beta

Welcome to WWDC25!

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It will be interesting to see if or how much of the new visuals will be SwiftUI-exclusive. And for those that are not: how they're also made available to AppKit and UIKit. 1/ #WWDC25