The Curious Engineer

Michael Tsai

2021

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December 2021

  1. The Surprising Cost of Checking Protocol Conformances in Swift
  2. The Mac Observer, Acquired
  3. The Confusing World of HDMI
  4. Spreadsheet Games
  5. Signing Out of iCloud or Apple ID
  6. iOS 16 Wishes
  7. Sparkle 2.0
  8. rcmd vs. the Mac App Store
  9. Disabling Exception Breakpoint When Running Unit Tests
  10. Ubisoft Account Deleted for Inactivity
  11. Tumblr vs. the App Store
  12. Design Evolution of the Windows Control Panel
  13. Dutch Anti-Steering Ruling for Dating Apps
  14. Firefox 95’s RLBox
  15. iOS Development Tips
  16. iOS 15 Autocorrect
  17. Favicon Analysis
  18. FLoC and Manifest V3
  19. Roadmap for Improving Swift Performance Predictability
  20. (mac)OStalgia
  21. NeXTSpirit Icons
  22. Bait-and-Switch Amazon Reviews, Continued
  23. Bypass TCC via Privileged Helpers
  24. FBI Guide to Getting Messaging Data
  25. 25 Years of Apple + NeXT
  26. Grammarly Disables Spell Checking Globally
  27. Four Years Without Net Neutrality
  28. Ribosome Inverts PhotoDNA
  29. SectorLISP: Lisp With GC in 436 Bytes
  30. Infinite Recursion in Log4j 2.16
  31. How to Find Why a SwiftUI View Is Updating
  32. Monterey Shows Orange Microphone Dot on Video Projectors
  33. Apple’s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
  34. USBefuddled
  35. How Apple Could Improve Shortcuts
  36. Apple Music Feedback Made It to Cook
  37. Apple Removes References to Controversial CSAM Scanning Feature
  38. FORCEDENTRY iMessage Zero-click Remote Code Execution
  39. Expectations When Opting Out of Tracking
  40. Privacy and Repairs
  41. Music.app and TV.app Use JET in macOS 12.2 Beta
  42. Swift Playgrounds 4
  43. How Recovery Works on M1 Series Macs
  44. Log4j Fix Also Has RCE
  45. Proposed Foundation URL Improvements
  46. Saving PNG Files From Photoshop
  47. Browse the Web from Your Wrist with µBrowser
  48. Xcode 13.2
  49. CT Scans of AirPods
  50. Detecting the Mac TestFlight Environment
  51. iPad Needs a Better Oleophobic Coating
  52. Opacity Precision
  53. Retiring Alexa.com
  54. Tim Cook’s Secret $275 Billion Deal With China
  55. Apple Wins Delay on Anti-Steering Injuction
  56. macOS 12.1
  57. iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2
  58. Tracker Detect Android App for AirTag
  59. Alternate App Store Product Pages and URLs
  60. Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Quill
  61. Microsoft xCloud App Store Negotiations
  62. Abrahams on the Design of Swift
  63. Log4Shell: Log4j Remote Code Execution
  64. Inside Apple’s Design Team
  65. OSLogStore on Monterey
  66. The State of External Retina Displays
  67. Life360 Sells Precise User Location Data
  68. Apple Accounts “Permanently” Blocked
  69. Apple Opposes Mentions of External Payment Options in Russia
  70. DOJ Investigates Apple’s Treatment of Roblox
  71. Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking
  72. Cocoa Culture
  73. Car Thieves Using AirTags
  74. Microsoft Directing Users Away From Chrome
  75. Triple Tap to Capture From OmniFocus
  76. M1 Mac Mini EC2 Preview
  77. Apple Wants Fee for Alternate Billing Systems
  78. Twitter’s New Photo-Removing, Anti-Doxxing Privacy Policy
  79. Inside Apple’s Chat Support
  80. Luau Programming Language
  81. William Cook, RIP
  82. Firefox’s Optimized Zip Format
  83. Thunderbolt 4 Docks
  84. Batch Converting Shortcuts to Scripts and Applets

November 2021

  1. Little Annoyances in macOS 12.0.1
  2. Safari Background Tabs Reactivate
  3. Requesting Your Personal Data From Amazon
  4. Are Mac Malware Defenses Changing Again?
  5. Snowflake Weather 1.3 for iOS
  6. Mac Upgrade Program
  7. Tech Giants
  8. Mac/iOS Safari Extension: Vinegar
  9. Xcode’s Environmental Pollution
  10. New Rowhammer Techniques
  11. Metal-cpp
  12. 2021 E-reader Roundup
  13. Apple Sues NSO Group
  14. The MacBook Pro Notch
  15. MacBook Pro 2021 Reviews
  16. GitHub’s Commitment to npm Ecosystem Security
  17. Black Friday 2021
  18. Dropbox and Maestral
  19. Booting an M1 Mac From an External Disk With Monterey
  20. Chromium’s URL Blocklist Can Now Prevent Viewing Page Source
  21. Reviewing Content Instead of the App
  22. Safari Forgets Your History
  23. The Unexpected Return of JavaScript for Automation
  24. The Reincarnation of the Touch Bar
  25. Click to Subscribe, Call to Cancel
  26. AOL Exploits Bug in Own Software
  27. Unicode and Copying and Pasting Code
  28. First MacPaint and MacWrite Public Demo
  29. Forgotten Image Formats
  30. XCRemoteCache
  31. WebKit E-mail Formatting Bug
  32. Pacifist 4.0.1
  33. How to Use Apple’s Legacy Contact Feature
  34. Apple Self Service Repair
  35. Why Won’t That Help Book Open?
  36. Surface Laptop SE
  37. Picture This Clothing and App Tracking Transparency
  38. Twitter Improves API and Restrictions
  39. GitHub Notifications and Mail Privacy Protection
  40. Tim Sweeney Calls for Single, Universal App Store
  41. Monterey Network Quality Tool
  42. Apple Buys Google Ads for Subscription Apps
  43. Mouse Pointer Memory Leak
  44. Microsoft Blocks EdgeDeflector to Force Windows Users Into Edge
  45. Apple Software Quality in 2021
  46. Offline Translation in Monterey
  47. Revised Messages Communication Safety Feature in iOS 15.2
  48. Notability’s Subscription Transition
  49. Apple’s 2021 Fiscal Year in Review
  50. FastScripts 3
  51. Unity Buys Weta Digital
  52. Apple Business Essentials
  53. Firefox Is the 45th Result When Searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store
  54. On “On Background”
  55. Apple Denied Anti-Steering Stay
  56. Disk Utility in Monterey
  57. Accessibility Exemption for E-book DRM
  58. Federighi and Cook on Sideloading
  59. Peloton Blames App Tracking Transparency
  60. Facebook, But Not Meta, Ends Face Recognition
  61. TestFlight for Mac Officially Launches
  62. A Year of Platformer on Substack
  63. IAP Fees for Event Services
  64. Google Wants Fee for Alternate Billing Systems
  65. diskspace Tool to Report APFS Free Space
  66. ThinkTank Review From 1983
  67. High Power Mode for Mac
  68. Netflix Games for iOS
  69. Please Shrink the Trackpad
  70. Lightroom Classic 11
  71. Keyboard Maestro 10
  72. Dangerous NSLog() Calls in Swift
  73. AppleScript Much Faster in Monterey
  74. Default macOS Wallpapers
  75. Spotify Now #1 Podcasts Platform
  76. macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies

October 2021

  1. Apple’s Q4 2021 Results
  2. Larger Files and Smaller Packages on Monterey
  3. Tesla’s Configurable Floating Point Formats
  4. What’s New on the Monterey Command Line
  5. Denis Tokarev’s Four Zero-Days
  6. Swift Concurrency for Older OS Versions
  7. Photoshop for the Web Public Beta
  8. Texas vs. Google Second Amended Complaint
  9. The Facebook Papers
  10. Acquiring Kaleidoscope
  11. iPhone 13 Pro Max vs. Pixel 6 Pro
  12. Russia Investigates App Store
  13. iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1
  14. Final Safari 15 Fixes Favorites Bar and Tabs
  15. Photos in iOS 15 and Monterey
  16. macOS 12.0 Monterey Released
  17. iPod at 20
  18. Apple Updates Guidelines for Cameron Settlement
  19. Google Play Store Drops Fees on Subscriptions and Content
  20. Yahoo Finance App Removed From Chinese App Store
  21. On The Much Improved State of Macintosh Hardware
  22. Yoink for iOS Uses Picture-in-Picture
  23. The Impossible Move
  24. The Best Mac External Displays
  25. Apple Music Voice Plan
  26. App Tracking Transparency Helps Apple’s Ads
  27. Amazon Knockoffs and Search Placement
  28. MacBook Pro 2021
  29. Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max
  30. AirPods 3
  31. SuperDuper 3.5 Beta 4 for Monterey and Apple Silicon
  32. Apple Refuses App Store Changes for South Korea
  33. The Risks of Client-Side Scanning
  34. Apple’s Threat Analysis of Sideloading
  35. Old Apple Human Interface Guidelines
  36. PrivacyTests.org
  37. XPC Service’s Methods Not Necessarily Run on Main Thread
  38. XcodeNueve: Running the Xcode 9 Tools
  39. Keyb 1.3
  40. Swift-DocC Is Now Open Source
  41. Visual Studio and Teams Get More Native
  42. Download Progress With Awaited Network Tasks
  43. Boox Nova Air Review
  44. Redesigning iOS Alarm and Timer Notifications
  45. TextExpander 7
  46. Firefox Can Now Fill Out PDF Forms
  47. Simplifying Backwards Compatibility in Swift
  48. Google Winds Down Material Design for iOS
  49. Apple Appeals Anti-Steering Ruling in Epic Case
  50. Orion 0.99
  51. Firefox Suggest and Contextual Suggestions
  52. Dutch Antitrust Watchdog Wants IAP Changes
  53. Halide 2.5: Macro Mode
  54. The Business of VPNs
  55. Paddle In-App Purchase for iOS
  56. Kaleidoscope 3
  57. iOS 15 Tips and Tricks
  58. Reproducible Code Signing on Apple Silicon
  59. Mac Safari Extension: ActiveTab
  60. iOS Safari Extension: StopTheScript
  61. “date -d” vs. “date -s”
  62. Celebrating Steve Jobs
  63. iPadOS 15 Multitasking
  64. Streaming Cropped Video
  65. Facebook BGP Outage
  66. Safari Bookmarks [Not Actually] End-To-End Encrypted
  67. App Store’s “Report a Problem” Is Back
  68. Stuck When Upgrading Directly From macOS Mojave to Big Sur
  69. Siri’s 10-Year Anniversary
  70. Swift Declarative String Processing Pitch
  71. PSPDFKit Takes Venture Capital
  72. iCloudCoreDataStarter and Temporary IDs Bug
  73. iOS 15 Messages Bug Deletes Saved Photos
  74. iOS 15 Shortcuts and SwiftUI

September 2021

  1. Dragging Multiple Images Out of Safari
  2. The Disappointment of On-Device Siri
  3. Manual Full Justification
  4. Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation)
  5. Retro Dither 1.0.1
  6. App Tracking Transparency Doesn’t Stop Trackers
  7. Safari 15 for Mac
  8. The End of AMP?
  9. Microsoft Store Supports Alternate App Stores
  10. AirTag Bug Enables “Good Samaritan” Attack
  11. Imgur Acquired
  12. IPLeak and DNS Leak Test
  13. App Tracking Transparency Affecting Facebook
  14. Accessible Hangman Bug Fix Rejected From App Store
  15. Mac OS X 10.1 Puma Revisited
  16. Indie Apps Catalog
  17. Opting in to 120Hz Animations on iPhone 13 Pro
  18. Smart Voting App Removed From App Store
  19. iOS Safari Extension: Achoo
  20. iOS Safari Extension: Amplosion
  21. iOS Safari Extension: StopTheMadness
  22. iOS Safari Extension: 1Password
  23. iOS Safari Extension: Vidimote
  24. European Union USB-C Mandate
  25. iOS Vulnerabilities Either Unfixed or Uncredited
  26. Upgrading Your iOS Device
  27. Some Web Sites Will Stop Working With El Capitan and Older
  28. Apple Lies About Epic Again
  29. iPhone 13 Reviews
  30. iPad mini (6th Generation) Reviews
  31. iPad (9th Generation) Reviews
  32. Swift 5.5 Released
  33. iOS 15 and iPadOS 15
  34. Hide My Email
  35. iCloud Private Relay
  36. DuckDuckGo Email Protection
  37. Mail Privacy Protection
  38. Record App Activity
  39. Rejected for Mentioning iOS 15 Compatibility
  40. Shortcuts Outage Caused By Researcher
  41. Performance of the A15
  42. Global Chip Shortage
  43. FlickType Sherlock+’d
  44. The Future of the App Store
  45. Magic Lasso Adblock 3.0
  46. Creating Compile-Time Reminders in Xcode
  47. Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp
  48. Xcode 13 RC
  49. iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro
  50. Apple Watch Series 7
  51. iPad mini (6th Generation)
  52. iPad (9th Generation)
  53. The Epic Anti-Steering Injunction Is Narrow
  54. Why Apple Should Compromise With Antitrust Regulators
  55. macOS 11.6
  56. Zero-click iMessage Attacks
  57. MarsEdit 4.5.2
  58. History of App Store Policy Changes
  59. Epic Wants Its Developer Account Back
  60. Anti-Steering Ruling in Epic v. Apple
  61. Universal Control
  62. Fire TV Omni and 4-Series
  63. Security Researchers Unhappy With Apple’s Bug Bounty Program
  64. QuickBooks Desktop Subscriptions
  65. 21 Years of Apple Home Page Tabs
  66. Why Is There No iPad or Mac Weather App?
  67. How to Hard-Lock Your iPhone
  68. Super Follows and IAP
  69. ProtonMail Turned on IP Logging for User
  70. Fission Exits the Mac App Store
  71. Apple Delays Child Safety Features
  72. Tweetbot 6.3 for iOS
  73. Powering Your Mac: Power Filters and UPS
  74. Callin 1.0
  75. The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform
  76. Why Xcode Tools Are Slow After Reboot
  77. Relaxing Anti-Steering Rules for Reader Apps
  78. South Korea App Store Bill
  79. On the Shift From Imperative to Declarative UI
  80. Shortcut for Tapback in Messages
  81. Catalyst Sample Code Roundup
  82. Apple Acquires Primephonic

August 2021

  1. Swift Atomics 1.0
  2. UTIs.cc
  3. Privacy for Apple Employees
  4. Apple Store vs. Repair Shop
  5. Cameron v. Apple Settlement
  6. Hopscotch Going Through App Store Review
  7. Jsc
  8. Apple News Partner Program
  9. Why Apple Asks for Your Other Device’s Password
  10. Additional Banking Information in App Store Connect
  11. New Club MacStories
  12. The Story of Playdate
  13. Open App Markets Act
  14. Managing Family Sharing Subscriptions
  15. Google Voice Drops SMS Forwarding
  16. FlickType Discontinued
  17. High CPU Use From trustd
  18. QuickTime Player Creates .mov Files
  19. Apple Settles With Corellium, Then Appeals
  20. Reddit Raises Even More
  21. Court Documents About Epic v. Google and App Store
  22. App Store Fee Reductions and Apple Strategy Tax
  23. Apple Engraving Censorship
  24. NeuralHash Implementation and Collision
  25. Touché 1.1.5
  26. Safari 15 Changes in Beta 6
  27. Switching Xcode Versions Without a Password
  28. Working on Internet Explorer 3 and Google Chrome
  29. Twitter’s Chirp Font
  30. iOS Dev Jobs
  31. Cheap MagSafe-Like Adapters for USB-C
  32. macOS 11.5.2
  33. 1Password 8 for Mac Early Access
  34. Safari 15 vs. Vivaldi When Matching the Web’s Colors
  35. After Dark Screensavers Recreated in CSS
  36. Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
  37. Google Considered Buying Epic
  38. Scanning iCloud Photos for Child Sexual Abuse
  39. App Store Feature Promotes Rip-Off Apps
  40. Apple Brings Back the Dedicated Store Web Page
  41. Zoom Settlement for Misleading Encryption Claims
  42. Scanning Your iPhone for Pegasus
  43. dyld-shared-cache-extractor
  44. Lists of Swift Attributes
  45. Swift “guard” Capture Specifier Pitch
  46. Brief Reviews of (Nearly) Every Mac Keyboard
  47. iOS 15 Find My
  48. Automating Test Retries
  49. Older Kindles Will Lose Cellular Access
  50. MuseScore Requests Downloader Takedown
  51. Suspicious Package Power User Features
  52. App Tracking Transparency’s Honor System

July 2021

  1. Playdate Pre-Orders
  2. Safari Extension Rejected Because Developer Not “Reputable”
  3. Avalanche Can Import Google Photos Libraries
  4. Implementing a Focusable Text Field in SwiftUI
  5. Compelled to Unlock With Face
  6. GitHub Token Authentication Requirements for Git Operations
  7. Biden and FTC on Right to Repair
  8. Apple Subpoenas Coalition for App Fairness
  9. 1Password Takes Second Round of Venture Capital
  10. Apple’s Q3 2021 Results
  11. XLoader Malware
  12. Hydromac Malware
  13. Inside Apple’s CSAT Solutions Repair Depot
  14. Safari Frustrations
  15. Safari 15 Changes in Beta 4
  16. Developer Account Terminated After Reporting Security Issue
  17. macOS 11.5.1
  18. Rumors About the Next Pro Macs
  19. Apple Business Model: A Naive Nostalgic Look
  20. Smaller Preferences Tab Icons in Big Sur
  21. iDOS Emulator to Be Removed From the App Store
  22. macOS 11.5
  23. iOS 14.7
  24. Through the Blast Door
  25. Git Tower 7
  26. Hopper 4.8
  27. Windows 11: Android Apps
  28. Windows 11: Windows Store Changes
  29. Windows 11: ARM64EC
  30. Windows 11 Announced
  31. BBEdit 14
  32. Owner Accounts on M1 Macs
  33. The Print Shop Club
  34. New Apple Podcasts App Still Unreliable
  35. SwiftUI Examples for macOS
  36. Pocket Casts Acquired by Automattic
  37. Unclack 1.1.1
  38. Reddit’s Disrespectful Design
  39. iOS Zero-day to Steal Authentication Cookies
  40. Xcodes.app
  41. Distributing Unnotarized Mac Apps in an RTFD File
  42. Leaking Files With TextEdit
  43. Safari 15 Changes in Beta 3
  44. Weather Strip 1.1
  45. Privacy War in the W3C
  46. Twitter Changes Fleets and Replies
  47. Time Capsule Thermal Flaw
  48. More Trouble With the Apple Security Bounty
  49. Overview of TCC Bypasses by Accident and Design
  50. Bypassing TCC By Changing the Environment
  51. Gatekeeper LaunchAgents Bypass
  52. TeamViewer Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
  53. Gatekeeper and File Quarantine Bypass
  54. Dynamic Libraries Bypass Gatekeeper
  55. Apple’s Camera Design Choices
  56. States v. Google Play Store
  57. Pulse Network Logger Goes Open Source
  58. Open-sourcing the Micro.blog Apps
  59. Apple Music Lobotomizes Siri
  60. Woz on Right to Repair
  61. Migrating 2FA Codes From Authy to iCloud Keychain
  62. Another Western Digital 0-Day
  63. Generic Test Classes in Xcode 12.5
  64. Panic’s 2016 App Store Feedback
  65. Microsoft’s April 1998 Meeting With Steve Jobs
  66. WWDC 2014 Video With Larry David
  67. Backblaze Computer Backup 8.0
  68. iOS: Closing of the Frontier
  69. GitHub Copilot and Copyright
  70. GitHub Copilot and API Keys
  71. Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
  72. Apple to Decentralize From Silicon Valley
  73. Audacity’s New Privacy Policy
  74. Boop 1.3.1
  75. Didi Chuxing Removed From Chinese App Store
  76. Brickit
  77. Brave Search Public Beta
  78. PDFpen Acquired for $6 Million
  79. Gaia GPS Acquired
  80. EU Competition Chief on iOS Sideloading
  81. Link Rot
  82. Custom Fonts in iOS and macOS apps
  83. APFS Volume Names Are Still a Unicode Mess
  84. macOS 12 Monterey Public Beta
  85. iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 Public Beta
  86. Google Sunsets the APK Format for New Android Apps

June 2021

  1. DocC Is Unusable for Open Source Projects
  2. Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is “Sacrilegious”
  3. Oregon Trail for iOS Is Back
  4. Faster App Launching in iOS 15 and Monterey
  5. Why You Can’t Roll Back Big Sur’s System Volume
  6. Lightroom Classic 10.3
  7. GitHub Copilot
  8. Remote Wiping of WD My Book Live Drives
  9. Allowing iOS Security Updates Without Upgrading
  10. Download Full Installer
  11. More iCloud Calendar Spam
  12. Apple Attacks Sideloading
  13. Ring and the App Store Strategy Tax
  14. Xcode 13 Column Breakpoints
  15. Password Reset iCloud Account Vulnerability
  16. Mail App Extensions
  17. Privacy Implications of Live Photos
  18. Matter’s Smart Home
  19. OldOS: iOS 4 Built in SwiftUI
  20. Testing the Apollo Spacecraft
  21. Google Messages Adds End-to-End Encryption
  22. Amazon Appstore Lowers Fees
  23. altool Update and notarytool
  24. Reimplementing Security Code AutoFill
  25. How to “Select All” in Mobile Safari
  26. Chuq on the Apple Ecosystem
  27. Why Doesn’t iCloud Warn Before Deleting Backups?
  28. Playing Lossless Audio on Macs
  29. AppShopper Shutting Down
  30. macOS 12: Localized Keyboard Shortcuts
  31. Safari 15 Announced
  32. Five Antitrust Bills
  33. Tightening the Mac App Store Screws Again
  34. macOS 12 Removes PHP
  35. Stripe Tax
  36. iMessage State Not Syncing
  37. Automattic Acquires Day One
  38. Safari IndexedDB Bug
  39. Modifying NSTextLists in Code
  40. Sony v. Cox
  41. iOS 15: On-Device Siri
  42. Concurrency in Swift 5 and 6: Data Races
  43. Swift Overloads That Differ Only in Async
  44. Reporting App Store Scams
  45. Amazon Ships $7,000 Empty Camera Box
  46. Removing the Manual Boost
  47. Fanhouse vs. Apple
  48. Settlement for AppleCare Privacy Invasion
  49. iOS 15 Weather App
  50. Live Text
  51. Digital Legacy and Account Recovery Contacts
  52. How to Test Swift async/await Code With XCTest
  53. iOS 15 Cursor Placement and Text Selection
  54. Low Power Mode for Mac
  55. Constant Literals in Objective-C
  56. FaceTime in iOS 15 and Monterey
  57. StoreKit 2
  58. Shortcuts for Mac
  59. TestFlight Finally Coming to the Mac
  60. iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 Announced
  61. macOS 12 Monterey Announced
  62. Emerge (Sponsor)
  63. WWDC 2021 Links
  64. On Walled Gardens
  65. Old Apple Conceptual Documentation
  66. Kernel Assisting the Objective-C Runtime
  67. Downgrading BridgeOS
  68. M1racles: M1ssing Register Access Controls Leak EL0 State
  69. Halide Mark II Launch Postmortem
  70. TCC Bypass in XCSSET Malware
  71. Apple Developer Relations
  72. More Documents From Epic vs. Apple
  73. Web Apps in Epic v. Apple
  74. Stack Overflow Acquired by Prosus
  75. A Global Perspective on the Apple App Store Ecosystem
  76. Amazon Sidewalk
  77. Slow Testing With Xcode 12.5 and Big Sur
  78. 2021 Apple Design Award Finalists
  79. macOS 11.4 Breaks Full Disk Access for Helper Tools
  80. WWDC 2021 Preview
  81. WWDC 2021 Wish Lists
  82. The Difficulty of Accessing Old iMessages
  83. How Uber Deals With Large iOS App Size

May 2021

  1. Starlink Review
  2. Faked Opposition to Net Neutrality
  3. Uber’s Crazy YOLO App Rewrite
  4. Using curl for Telnet Testing
  5. Figma and the Num Lock Quasimode
  6. Apple Developer Forums Now Have RSS
  7. Twitter Blue
  8. Extracting Data From an Old iOS App Broken by iOS 14.5
  9. Forced 5-Star Ratings
  10. iOS Camera App Updates
  11. Unexpectedly 1.0
  12. Firefox Now Uses Native Contextual Menus
  13. Adobe Genuine Service
  14. Epic v. Apple, Day 16
  15. macOS 11.4
  16. Apple Execs on the Mac App Store
  17. Remaining Issues in Big Sur
  18. Epic v. Apple, Day 15
  19. New Many Tricks Upgrade Model
  20. 30 Years of the Web
  21. Epic v. Apple, Day 14
  22. Carbon Copy Cloner 6
  23. Preventing Surprisingly Large Objective-C Type Encodings
  24. Epic v. Apple, Day 13
  25. 20 Years of Apple Retail Stores
  26. screensizes.app
  27. Tweaks for Twitter 1.0
  28. Epic v. Apple, Day 12
  29. A Hard Bargain for Apple in China
  30. QoS and Task Segregation Make M1 Macs Feel Faster
  31. VoiceOver Image Descriptions
  32. Parsing Dates Without Times
  33. Epic v. Apple, Day 11
  34. Apple Music Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
  35. Venmo’s Public Transactions and Friend Lists
  36. Twitter and App Tracking Transparency
  37. Epic v. Apple, Day 10
  38. Epic v. Apple, Day 9
  39. Apple Suppliers Accused of Using Forced Labor
  40. Big Sur Really Needs Real Free Space
  41. Epic v. Apple, Day 8
  42. Adobe Discontinuing PostScript Type 1 Font Support
  43. Google Docs Switching From DOM to Canvas
  44. iCloud Documents and Data Discontinued
  45. An Appreciation of Objective-C
  46. What It Was Like to Sell Apps Online in 2003
  47. Fixing Swift’s “if let” Syntax
  48. Sketch Subscriptions
  49. Diet Coda Discontinued
  50. Epic v. Apple, Day 7
  51. Epic v. Apple, Day 6
  52. Epic v. Apple, Day 5
  53. Inside App Review
  54. Epic v. Apple, Day 4
  55. Does Apple News Track You?
  56. Hello Weather
  57. Private iPad Camera Multitasking Entitlement
  58. Reimagining Apple’s Documentation
  59. Whitelisted Developers
  60. Epic v. Apple, Day 3
  61. Buffet Overflow
  62. Apple Podcasts Not Showing the Latest Podcasts
  63. Visual Studio 2022
  64. Punitive Measures for Netflix IAP Test
  65. Extended Mac AppleCare+ Coverage
  66. Facebook Educates About App Tracking Transparency
  67. Night Shift Sleep Study
  68. Verizon Sells Yahoo and AOL
  69. Epic v. Apple, Day 2
  70. Script Debugger 8
  71. macOS 11.3.1
  72. SuperDuper 3.5 Beta 1
  73. EU and Australia on App Store Antitrust
  74. SeaTurtle (Sponsor)

April 2021

  1. Apple Developer Tools Memory Lane
  2. VMware Fusion on Apple Silicon Later This Year
  3. Catalina Security Update 2021-002 Breaks OpenCL
  4. 30 Years of Linux
  5. Apple’s Q2 2021 Results
  6. Rust at Facebook
  7. Daniel Kaminsky, RIP
  8. Swift Generics 2: Existentials Boogaloo
  9. How Facebook Encodes Videos
  10. Mighty
  11. Swift 5.4 Released
  12. iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5
  13. macOS 11.3
  14. Beware of Signal Recompressing Images and Videos
  15. Mac and iPad Aren’t Meeting in the Middle Yet
  16. Apple Sued for Removing Purchased Content
  17. Revitalizing the Windows App Store
  18. More App Store Search Ads
  19. iTunes Podcast Directory Now Hiding Feed URLs
  20. Spotify Set to Rival Apple Podcasts Subscriptions
  21. Exploiting Vulnerabilities in Cellebrite
  22. Menuwhere 1.0
  23. Kaleidoscope 2.4.1
  24. Examining Competition in App Stores
  25. The App Store Isn’t Catching the Most Egregious Scams
  26. Secure ShellFish (Sponsor)
  27. iPad Pro (M1, 5th Generation)
  28. iMac 24-inch 2021
  29. Apple TV 4K 2021
  30. Airtag
  31. Apple Podcasts Subscriptions
  32. Microsoft xCloud for iOS Launching Soon
  33. Parler Approved for App Store
  34. Bartender 4
  35. Mac App Store Entitlement Folly
  36. Chuck Geschke, RIP
  37. Belkin Car Vent Mount Pro With MagSafe
  38. Kindles Can Finally Display Book Covers on Their Lock Screens
  39. Mac Chimes of Death
  40. RCKit Removed From the App Store
  41. The Mystery of “White Spots” on Apple Trade Ins
  42. Rust Support in the Linux Kernel
  43. Peloton Cuts Back on Apple Watch Support
  44. Collecting concurrentPerform(iterations:) Results in a Swift Array
  45. How a WhatsApp Status Loophole Is Aiding Cyberstalkers
  46. Dynamic Type and In-App Font Scaling
  47. ThinkPad X1 Nano
  48. Blocking Discord Channels Marked NSFW on iOS
  49. Big Sur Has Changed How macOS Formats Time
  50. PyCharm’s Transition to Apple Silicon
  51. NHS COVID-19 App Rejected on Privacy Grounds
  52. Logitech Harmony Remote Discontinued
  53. Microsoft Acquires Nuance
  54. Talon Beta
  55. High Performance Numeric Programming With Swift
  56. Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
  57. Keyboard Shortcuts and non-US Layouts
  58. Why There’s No iMessage for Android
  59. Apple and Epic’s Proposed Findings of Fact
  60. New Outlook’s Dangerous “Discard” Shortcut
  61. Resources for Learning SwiftUI
  62. The Former Netflix DVD Library Is a Lost Treasure
  63. History of Flow vs. Asana
  64. Swift “Collections” Package
  65. Use Emergency Bypass to Circumvent Do Not Disturb
  66. Switching Back to Mac
  67. Copying the Java API Was Fair Use
  68. Facebook Breach
  69. Yahoo Answers Shutting Down
  70. Tim Cook on Sideloading
  71. Apple Music macOS Review
  72. Snapchat’s App Tracking Transparency Workaround
  73. Apple Arcade Adds Classic Games
  74. The Mac Needs Shortcuts
  75. “Foil” UserDefaults Property Wrapper
  76. YouTube Testing Removal of Dislike Count
  77. Aho and Ullman Win Turing Award
  78. Long Term iPhone 12 Camera Review

March 2021

  1. Goodbye, Cortana
  2. Subscribing to Updated Blog Posts
  3. How to Set Up Core Data and CloudKit
  4. Making NSFetchRequest.fetchBatchSize Work With Swift
  5. Replacing vs. Migrating Core Data Stores
  6. More Apple Repair Providers and Lobbying
  7. WWDC 2021 Announced and New Developer App
  8. Sparse Files Are Common in APFS
  9. ExpanDrive and File Provider Framework
  10. How to Stop Mac App Store Notifications
  11. PHP’s Git Server Compromised
  12. c0design Checker
  13. NetNewsWire 6.0 for Mac
  14. Medium Buyouts and Leadership Change
  15. Firefox’s SmartBlock
  16. Multiple Alternative Channels
  17. Mac OS X at 20
  18. Shared Shortcuts URLs Broken
  19. Big Sur’s Sidebar Translucency
  20. Big Sur’s Gray Menu Keyboard Shortcuts
  21. Xcode Tips
  22. ProtonVPN Security Updates Rejected Due to Previously Approved App Description
  23. Substack’s Subscription Form vs. 1Password Autofill
  24. Closing Web Browser Windows Doesn’t Close Connections
  25. Firefox’s New Referrer Policy
  26. Butterfly Keyboard Class Action Lawsuit
  27. How NetNewsWire Handles Threading
  28. Backblaze B2 Leaks Metadata to Facebook
  29. Surprised
  30. Mac Analytics on App Store Connect
  31. Setting macOS Defaults via Script
  32. XcodeSpy Malware
  33. Kensington StudioDock for iPad
  34. FlickType Developer Sues Apple
  35. Intel’s Anti-Mac Ads
  36. iOS to Offer Pre-Installed Apps in Russia
  37. Swift Proposal: Actors
  38. Acorn 7
  39. Photoshop for Apple Silicon
  40. Deleting Tweets and Other Social Media Content
  41. Apple’s Perplexing Home Strategy
  42. Dropbox Passwords
  43. Google Play Store Drops Commission to 15%
  44. DMCA Takedown for Old Acrobat Tweet
  45. Goodbye, Original HomePod
  46. Mac APIs that Require Provisioning Profiles
  47. Underused and Overused GCD Patterns
  48. SMS Rerouting Vulnerability
  49. Mac Software Updates Open Up sshd
  50. Larger and Slower Updates With Big Sur
  51. Amazon Basics Copies Peak Design
  52. Parler Denied Re-entry to the App Store
  53. Roblox in the App Store
  54. Lou Ottens, RIP
  55. Brave Search
  56. Google to Replace Ad Cookies With FLoC
  57. Facebook Gets Location From EXIF
  58. Shortcuts Library, Simplified
  59. Fixing macOS Big Sur Search Bugs
  60. Tt2020
  61. The Role of Bootable Duplicates in a Modern Backup Strategy
  62. Transferring iCloud Photos
  63. Did Schnorr Destroy RSA?
  64. Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server
  65. The State of Deepfakes
  66. Apple Platform Security Guide (February 2021)
  67. Rachel True vs. iCloud
  68. macOS 11.2.3
  69. Apple M1 Microarchitecture Research
  70. Distributing Mac Apps Without Notarization
  71. Goodbye, iMac Pro
  72. Reverse-Engineering Rosetta 2
  73. Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
  74. Accidentally Quadratic Parsing With sscanf
  75. Apple Account Locked Due to Failed Trade-in
  76. Free Trials Aren’t Free Apps
  77. Australia vs. Facebook and Google
  78. Be Careful With Obj-C Bridging in Swift
  79. Apple TV 3 Losing More Content
  80. Origin of macOS Poof Animation
  81. Apple Developer Forums Can Now Monitor Threads
  82. Apple Beige
  83. The Mac Price Crash of 2021
  84. Weather Line Acquired
  85. Downcast 2.9.61

February 2021

  1. Apple Documentation and SwiftUI for Mac
  2. Outdated Software Keeps Inmates Beyond Their Release Dates
  3. Clubhouse Wants to Upload Your Contacts’ Phone Numbers
  4. Excessive Mac SSD Wear
  5. Steve Jobs Stories
  6. Fry’s Electronics Closing
  7. One-to-One IP Targeting
  8. Anker PowerCore Magnetic 5K Wireless Power Bank
  9. macOS 11.2.2
  10. The Context and the Logic
  11. Similar Detritus Not Allowed
  12. Unified Office App for iPad
  13. Arizona Bill on App Store Payments
  14. Epic Counterclaims, Europe, and Valve
  15. Swift Proposal: ConcurrentValue and @concurrent Closures
  16. Chromebooks Outsell Macs
  17. A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  18. Google vs. iOS App Privacy Labels
  19. Apple Store Polices “Irrationally High Prices”
  20. Unhelpful App Store E-mail Receipts
  21. Safari to Support WebM Video Playback
  22. Apple Adds Proxy for Safe Browsing Queries
  23. Citibank’s $500 Million UI Lesson
  24. LastPass Pricing Changes
  25. 2021 State of Mac Malware
  26. Mail Search vs. Big Sur’s Fast User Switching
  27. Code Signing When Building on Apple Silicon
  28. Why Reporting Bugs to Apple May Harm Software Quality
  29. Dash 6
  30. PodSwap
  31. Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?
  32. Swift for TensorFlow Canceled
  33. The Long Hack
  34. Arq 7
  35. FastScripts 3 Beta
  36. The Evolution of “safe” and “unsafe” in Swift
  37. Bad AppleScript: Fake RSS, Real Newsletter
  38. Paul Taylor, RIP
  39. Native Mac APIs for Go
  40. North Dakota Bill on App Stores
  41. Facebook Ads Relied on Deprecated Chrome Feature
  42. Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs?
  43. Student’s Developer Account Mistakenly Terminated
  44. Apple Removes Apps for Pakistani Government
  45. “EDR” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
  46. The Battle Inside Signal
  47. macOS 11.2.1
  48. Apple’s Supply Chain
  49. iOS 14.5: Setting the Default Music Service
  50. Scammy WatchChat Competitors
  51. Remaining Issues New in Catalina
  52. Check Free Space Before Updating to Big Sur
  53. Intel’s M1 Benchmarks
  54. iPhone’s Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything “Asian”
  55. Call Recorder Succumbs to Apple Silicon
  56. Homebrew 3.0.0
  57. AdWords Phrase Match Changes
  58. macOS 11.3 Beta
  59. Yottamaster 4-Bay Hard Drive Enclosure
  60. Apple Wants Developer Transition Kits Back
  61. Deleting DerivedData the Right Way
  62. SwiftDtoa v2
  63. Tim Cook to Be Deposed for Epic Case
  64. Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO
  65. LAMBDA: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function
  66. Scammy KeyWatch and Trezor Apps
  67. Chrome Browser Extension for iCloud Passwords
  68. iOS 14.5: Unlock an iPhone While Wearing a Mask
  69. Xcode 12.5 Beta
  70. macOS 11.2
  71. Old SuperDuper for Big Sur
  72. CDC’s Vaccine Data System
  73. Misleading and Inaccurate iOS Privacy Labels
  74. iMessage’s BlastDoor Sandbox

January 2021

  1. 2020 Six Colors Apple Report Card
  2. Negative Robinhood Reviews Deleted
  3. Google and App Tracking Transparency
  4. ProtonMail Opposes EU Golden Key
  5. Apple’s Q1 2021 Results
  6. Facebook May Sue Over App Tracking Transparency
  7. Data Privacy Day at Apple
  8. Mac Mini Power Consumption and Thermal Output Specs
  9. Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Sudo
  10. Aqueux Dynamic Wallpapers
  11. Xcode 12.4
  12. Corellium iOS VMs for Individuals
  13. It’s Over Between Us, AVAudioEngine
  14. Tweetbot 6 for iOS
  15. The Business of MKBHD
  16. SwiftUI Unit Testing
  17. Displaying the State or the Action
  18. Hazel Codesigning and Notarization Woes
  19. Codye 1.1.3
  20. Hush Content Blocker for Safari
  21. Big Sur Document Icons Are Illegible
  22. Brad Cox, RIP
  23. Sketch Library for Big Sur
  24. Retiring Tucows Downloads
  25. Reversing Malicious Run-Only AppleScripts
  26. OWC Thunderbolt 4 Hub
  27. Beeper Brings iMessage to Android and Windows
  28. Notes on Activation Lock: Apple Silicon Management Challenges
  29. Intel Problems
  30. Why Webcams Aren’t Good Enough
  31. Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
  32. Swift AsyncSequence
  33. Data Security on Mobile Devices
  34. Charger Nerdery
  35. Network Neutrality Follow-up
  36. ReadKit for iOS
  37. NSSavePanel Crashes on Big Sur
  38. How to Reserve Time Machine Space on an APFS Drive
  39. Signal Review
  40. Switching to Windows and Linux
  41. Jacob Ziv Honored
  42. Is the Finder Wobbly in Big Sur?
  43. Storing the Time Zone With a Date
  44. User-defined Order in SQL
  45. Where Are the Safari Web Extensions?
  46. CleanShot X
  47. Steve Jobs at All Things Digital
  48. The Best Mac Rumors in a Long Time
  49. Tabfs
  50. macOS 11.2 Beta 2 Adds Full Custom Kernel Support
  51. ContentFilterExclusionList Gone in macOS 11.2 Beta 2
  52. Reminder: iMessage Not Meaningfully E2E
  53. An Otter RSS 1.0
  54. 2021 Backup Strategy
  55. Amazon’s “Brushing” Scam
  56. Growth in Desktops, Mac Marketshare
  57. Lost Persistent AppleScript Properties
  58. Setting Your Default Web Browser on Big Sur
  59. Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins
  60. iTunes at 20
  61. Wikipedia Is 20
  62. WhatsApp Privacy Policy and Encryption Canary
  63. Here Lies Flash
  64. New 4 TB SSDs From SanDisk and WD
  65. Is iOS 14’s App Library for Me?
  66. Swift FilePath Syntactic Operations
  67. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU
  68. SwiftUI Views to Images
  69. Parler Removed From App Stores and AWS
  70. Audion 4.0
  71. 10th Anniversary of the Mac App Store
  72. Samsung T7 Review
  73. Privacy of Apple Podcasts
  74. Twitter Acquires Breaker
  75. Google Workers Announce Plans to Unionize
  76. Project Monarch
  77. Zoom Rooms Weekly Restart
  78. Let’s Make 2021 the Year of Disk Utility
  79. Amphetamine Threatened With App Store Removal
  80. FilmNoir Rejected From the App Store

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