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bitsplitting.org

Chasing the impossible with Daniel Jalkut

Software / engineering practiceTech news / industryEssays / personal

’15’20’25
Posts
160 from 6 Jul 2012 to 17 Aug 2026
Posting
now and then (5 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 5

  1. AI Can’t Adulterate its Own Writing
  2. Multinational Apple Accounts
  3. Thirty Years
  4. The Beginning of Programming as We’ll Know It
  5. Comfort Zone

2025 1

  1. Whither Help Scout?

2023 3

  1. Apple Intelligence
  2. 52 Floppy Pickup
  3. Spelunking Apple’s Open Source

2022 4

  1. Disciplined Innovation
  2. Dump FogBugz
  3. Purgeable Mac Apps
  4. NetNewsWire 6.1 for Mac: Subscribe to Feed

2021 1

  1. The Talk Show 327: Giddy with Mac-ness

2020 2

  1. Three Podcasts and a Blog
  2. Apple News Encourages Frequent Blogging

2019 5

  1. Catalina’s Custom Keyboard Viewers
  2. A Real Gatekeeper
  3. Unloved Patches
  4. Blog a Little
  5. The Mac Open Web

2018 10

  1. Mac Sandboxing: Privileged File Operations
  2. Terminal Security Profiles
  3. Saying Goodbye to NetNewsWire 3
  4. More on Mojave’s Automation Sandbox
  5. Reauthorizing Automation in Mojave
  6. Ersatz Free Trials
  7. Late to the Mac
  8. Change Infinite Loop’s Name to Apple Playground
  9. The Nosiest Assistant
  10. Unified Swift Playgrounds

2017 13

  1. Gus Mueller on Extra Intuition
  2. Core Intuition Membership
  3. Sandbox Transparency
  4. The Watch is a Phone
  5. Apple Watch Series 3
  6. Multilingual Completion
  7. $40 Box Lunch
  8. S is for Sandboxed
  9. Social Networks are a Feature
  10. Paper Airplane Icons
  11. Accessible Resistance
  12. Progressive Disclosure In Swift
  13. Bitter iCloud Truth

2016 21

  1. Touch Bar Everywhere
  2. The Price Of GPL
  3. Log Littering
  4. Twitter Optimism
  5. App Store Maturity
  6. The Apple
  7. Named Watch Faces
  8. Labeled Siri Alarms
  9. Not Perfected Here
  10. Twenty Years
  11. When Worse Is Better
  12. Paid App Store Search
  13. Distance Based Reminders
  14. Bad Preference Gatekeeper
  15. iPhone SE: No Room For Doubt
  16. Make Wooden Toys
  17. Selectively Smart Typography
  18. Call To Action
  19. iGotYourBack
  20. Lazy Password Storage
  21. Living Room Engagement

2015 23

  1. Medium Permalinks
  2. Hey Siri, Don’t Trivialize My Timer
  3. Siri’s Headphone Tax
  4. If It Ain’t Fixed, Break It
  5. Familiar Spell Checking
  6. Everything But The Web
  7. SiriScript
  8. Surviving The Work Week At Home
  9. Microsoft WinObjC
  10. Six In One
  11. Full Time Indie
  12. Mobile Is A Fad
  13. Apple News And The Open Web
  14. OS X El Capitan
  15. WWDC Video Downloader
  16. Keeping Up With WWDC
  17. Whose Phone Is This?
  18. Off By One Half
  19. Nineteen Years
  20. The Risks And Rewards Of Criticism
  21. Crazy Apple Car Rumors
  22. The Siri Standard
  23. The Functional High Ground

2014 24

  1. Blockpass For Dummies
  2. Push Notification Traps
  3. Insecure Keyboard Entry
  4. Manton’s Twitter Apps
  5. How Many Blogs Do You Have?
  6. The 2014 Retina Web
  7. Brent Goes To Omni
  8. 15 Lessons From Anil
  9. iPhone 5: A Form Factor Worth Keeping
  10. Hotshots
  11. Breach Of Trust
  12. First Impressions
  13. Apple Watch Pricing
  14. File A Bug
  15. What Have You Been Working On?
  16. Core Intuition Jobs
  17. Threes Scoring
  18. Addicted To Threes
  19. Can’t Take That Away
  20. A Billion Dollars Worth Of Work
  21. Restart Your Day Job
  22. Quit Your Day Job
  23. Apple’s Nest
  24. Letterpress Rules

2013 39

  1. Choices And Consequences
  2. Instant Gratification
  3. The Integrity Prize
  4. Stagnation Or Stability?
  5. Fingerprints As Access Tokens
  6. A Mockery Of Whom?
  7. The Imperfect Craft
  8. Assembled In USA
  9. Mercurial Plugin For Xcode
  10. Bitsplitting Podcast Hiatus
  11. Bitsplitting With Jason Snell
  12. Bitsplitting With Jean MacDonald
  13. Bitsplitting With Marco Arment
  14. Bitsplitting With Buzz Andersen
  15. What’s That Color?
  16. Bitsplitting With Amanda Wixted
  17. Respect The Crowd
  18. Bitsplitting With Brent Simmons
  19. You Can Check Out Anytime You Like
  20. I’m Feeling Useless
  21. The Medium Compromise
  22. Bitsplitting With John Siracusa
  23. End WWDC
  24. Bitsplitting With Jacqui Cheng
  25. Check Your Libel
  26. Why Mention Android
  27. Google’s Next Great Thing
  28. Bitsplitting With Erika Hall
  29. The Bitsplitting Podcast
  30. NetNewsWire Cloud
  31. An Indie State Of Mind
  32. Coming Soon: The Bitsplitting Podcast
  33. Virtual ROM
  34. Out Of The Bag
  35. Reminder Plumbing
  36. AAPL Stops On A Dime
  37. Dell’s Downfall
  38. Aaron Swartz
  39. Screenshot Lightning

2012 9

  1. Shame Projection
  2. Hacking My AOL Account
  3. The Anti-Apple Market
  4. Fairly Priced
  5. Color Inside The Lines
  6. OpenSSL On Mac OS X
  7. Twitter’s Token Rush
  8. Cachet
  9. Target The Forward Fringe