The Curious Engineer

Michael Tsai

2024

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December 2024

  1. Apple to Defend Google Revenue Sharing Agreement
  2. Vlad Prelovac on Kagi Search and Orion
  3. Adobe Raises Monthly Photography Plan Prices
  4. Deleting Unused Photos From Apple Photos
  5. Meta’s iOS Interoperability Requests
  6. WhatsApp v. NSO Group
  7. Donald Bitzer, RIP
  8. Why Disney Stopped Subscriptions on the App Store
  9. Provenance Rejected From the App Store
  10. Apple Sued for Not Searching iCloud for CSAM
  11. Swift Concurrency in Real Apps
  12. Swift Prospective Vision: Accessors
  13. Delta Adds External Purchase Link in US
  14. SwiftUWhy
  15. Cascable Studio Rejected From the App Store
  16. Acorn 8
  17. Sequoia Fixes App Store Update Notifications
  18. Magic Mouse Rumors
  19. The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
  20. Issues Adopting Swift Testing
  21. Take Control of Apple Media Apps
  22. Forked
  23. Gemini 2.0
  24. macOS 15.2 Breaks Bootable Backups
  25. Xcode 16.2
  26. iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2
  27. tvOS 18.2
  28. watchOS 11.2
  29. visionOS 2.2
  30. audioOS 18.2
  31. macOS 15.2
  32. macOS 14.7.2 and macOS 13.7.2
  33. OmniFocus 4.5
  34. Instagram Shuts Down Basic Display API
  35. Firefox Removes “Do Not Track”
  36. Festivitas
  37. Suspicious Package Keeps on Tickin’
  38. Apple’s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 18
  39. Skype Credit Is No Longer Available
  40. Storing Times for Human Events
  41. Selling Outside of the Mac App Store
  42. NetNewsWire 6.1.6
  43. FTC and CFPB Reining in Data Brokers
  44. Tim Cook Interview About AI and AVP
  45. Key Repeat in Sequoia
  46. Microsoft Discontinues Surface Studio 2+
  47. UK App Store Commission Lawsuit
  48. RCS in iOS 18
  49. MIST (macOS Installer Super Tool)
  50. US Officials Recommend Encrypted Messaging Apps
  51. Swift Proposal: Precise Control Flags Over Compiler Warnings
  52. Microsoft Still Unhappy With iOS Cloud Gaming Rules
  53. Google Page Annotation Links
  54. ReadKit 3.3
  55. CoreData Studio 1.5
  56. UK CMA vs. Apple’s Browser Rules
  57. PPSSPP Emulator Stuck in App Review
  58. Losing “Podcast”
  59. Pat Gelsinger Out at Intel
  60. Modern CSV 2.1
  61. Microsoft-Trusted ICP-Brasil Certificate for google.com
  62. Microsoft at 50
  63. FTC Opens Microsoft Antitrust Investigation
  64. Microsoft Donates the Mono Project to Wine

November 2024

  1. Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
  2. Unlisted MindNode Classic
  3. Brazil Rules Against Apple’s Anti-Steering Rules
  4. Watch Out for Counterintuitive Implicit Actor-Isolation
  5. Mini vMac for iOS Rejected via Notarization
  6. App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices
  7. Apple’s Movie Theater Beef With Hollywood
  8. Swift Vision: Improving the Approachability of Data-Race Safety
  9. Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires
  10. The End of Delicious Library
  11. Black Friday 2024
  12. The App Store Era Must End
  13. Apple Directly Selling Apple News Ads
  14. Unreal on Internet Archive
  15. Type to Siri
  16. EagleFiler 1.9.16
  17. Privileges 2.0
  18. Slopes Interactive Maps
  19. Let’s Encrypt Is 10
  20. SpamSieve 3.1
  21. Overcast 2024.11.1
  22. Why Can’t iOS Have Smart Folders?
  23. Pinwheel 1.0
  24. DOJ Wants Google to Sell Chrome and De-Google Android
  25. News Explorer 2.0
  26. macOS 15.1.1
  27. iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1
  28. visionOS 2.1.1
  29. Swift Concurrency Proposal Index
  30. Why Is Lightroom Always Generating Thumbnails?
  31. Does Apple Smell Blood in the Water?
  32. Retrofitting Spatial Safety to Hundreds of Millions of Lines of C++
  33. M4 Macs Can’t Virtualize Older macOS
  34. Lawsuit to Reveal Wikipedia Editors
  35. Firefox at 20
  36. The State of Mozilla
  37. Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac
  38. Sequoia Network Extension Memory Leak
  39. Thomas Kurtz, RIP
  40. Google Drive Blackout in Italy
  41. App Store Connect 2.0
  42. macOS 15.1 Firewall Breaks Third-Party Firewalls
  43. Questioning EU Geo-Blocking Restrictions
  44. OneDrive and Sequoia
  45. Claiming Time Machine Backups
  46. Misguided Apple Intelligence Ads
  47. Bodyreader v. Apple
  48. John Geleynse Retires From Apple
  49. No Refund for Undelivered MacBooks
  50. Sega Delisting Classic Games From Steam
  51. The Ongoing Battle for Vestibular Accessibility
  52. Why % CPU in Activity Monitor Isn’t What You Think
  53. iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves
  54. Lost iCloud Notes
  55. High Power Mode for M4 Pro Macs
  56. iPhone 18 Pro Variable Camera Aperture Rumor
  57. CloudKit Reference and Index Issues
  58. Problematic Swift Concurrency Patterns
  59. iOS 18: Health App Medications
  60. iOS 18: Screen Sharing With Remote Control
  61. Swift Format in Xcode 16
  62. Data Tracking and Notifications in Core Data and SwiftData
  63. Swift Proposal: Integer Generic Parameters
  64. Hypertextual Writing and Social Media
  65. Sequoia No Longer Supports QuickLook Generator Plug-ins
  66. How to Highlight Text Fragments When Linking
  67. Exporting Kindle Highlights for Personal Documents
  68. Paddle’s Single-Click Apple Pay
  69. How to Use Cursor for iOS Development
  70. Why Alexa Hasn’t Yet Become the Real Computer of the Future
  71. Playing Purchased Music on HomePod
  72. Reddit Is Finally Profitable
  73. Apple Acquires Pixelmator
  74. Fantastical 4 and Windows Version
  75. Apple’s Q4 2024 Results
  76. CoverSutra Is Back

October 2024

  1. GitHub Copilot for Xcode
  2. Xcode 16.1
  3. iOS Apple Intelligence in EU in April 2025
  4. MacBook Pro 2024
  5. Apple M4 Pro and M4 Max
  6. Use a Cloned Drive to Recover From Mac Failures
  7. Mac mini 2024
  8. iMac 2024
  9. USB-C Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad
  10. macOS 15.1
  11. macOS 14.7.1 and macOS 13.7.1
  12. iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1
  13. watchOS 11.1
  14. tvOS 18.1
  15. visionOS 2.1
  16. audioOS 18.1
  17. Security Research on Private Cloud Compute
  18. Testing EU iOS Features in iOS 18.2
  19. Disney+ and Hulu Drop IAP
  20. Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.2 and iOS 18.2
  21. Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.1 and iOS 18.1
  22. Postbox Discontinued
  23. TouchArcade Is Shutting Down
  24. The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting
  25. Qbix Calendar Apps and the Mac App Store
  26. iPhone 16 Adds JPEG XL
  27. Lightroom Classic 14
  28. Time Machine in Sequoia
  29. Leaky macOS VPN After System Update
  30. TCC and Gatekeeper Bypasses
  31. Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die
  32. exit(173) Receipt Fetching Deprecated on Sequoia
  33. Click-to-Cancel
  34. Netscape at 30
  35. ToothFairy 2.8.5
  36. Kindle Colorsoft and 2024 Updates
  37. Digital River Not Paying Developers
  38. Returning to Core Data
  39. Traveling With Apple Vision Pro
  40. Passkeys Credential Exchange
  41. Disk Images in Sequoia
  42. iPad mini (7th Generation)
  43. Ward Christensen, RIP
  44. Apple’s Stale Mac Displays
  45. Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
  46. PolyCapture 1.5
  47. Fake Safari Link Sharing Text
  48. Swift Foundation Unification
  49. Greppability Is an Underrated Code Metric
  50. A Brief History of Defragging
  51. Using NSDockTilePlugIn
  52. Sorting Burst Shots in Apple Photos
  53. Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon
  54. Apple TV+ in Amazon Prime Video
  55. Internet Archive Hacked
  56. Apple Passwords’ Generated Strong Password Format
  57. Sequoia Security Scoped Bookmarks Bug
  58. Panic Drops Google Drive Access
  59. Musi for YouTube Removed From the App Store
  60. China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
  61. Google App Store Monopoly Remedy
  62. Scripting News at 30
  63. Jettison 1.8.9
  64. Photoshop Elements Switches to Subscriptions
  65. Networking Issues in Sequoia
  66. Launching Before UserDefaults Is Available
  67. Dealing With Objective-C Protocol Types in Swift
  68. Xcode 16 Folders and Groups
  69. Meta Fined for Logging Passwords
  70. “Damaged” Mac App Store Apps
  71. Setting Up an iOS VPN Without an App
  72. macOS 15.0.1
  73. iOS 18.0.1
  74. iPadOS 18.0.1
  75. watchOS 11.0.1
  76. visionOS 2.0.1
  77. PDFpen/Nitro and Cleverbridge
  78. Finder Sync Extensions Removed From System Settings in Sequoia
  79. IDA Pro 9 Switches to Subscriptions
  80. Restoring Shift-Key Slow-Motion Minimizing to Dock
  81. Juno for YouTube Removed From the App Store
  82. Pinning iCloud Drive in Sequoia
  83. Migrating the TelemetryDeck SDK to Swift 6 Mode
  84. Local Network Privacy on Sequoia
  85. Hurricane Helene and Messages via Satellite
  86. Swift Concurrency and Objective-C
  87. Epic’s Document Request and Apple’s Injunction Challenge
  88. Sequoia’s Warning When Turning Off Bluetooth

September 2024

  1. SwiftData Expressions
  2. iPhone Action Button Uptake
  3. An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers
  4. European Commission Specification Proceedings
  5. iA Writer’s Google Drive Access
  6. NSManagedObjectID and PersistentIdentifier
  7. X/Twitter Censorship
  8. No More iMore
  9. DropDMG 3.6.8
  10. Meta’s Orion AR Glasses
  11. OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company
  12. iPhone 80% Charging Limit
  13. Halide Rejected From the App Store
  14. Automattic vs. WP Engine
  15. OpenAI and Ive
  16. What Is a Photo?
  17. Sequoia’s spctl and csrutil
  18. ISO8601DateFormatter and Fractional Seconds
  19. Intel Foundry
  20. Cohost to Shut Down
  21. Gaining Access to Anyone’s Arc Browser
  22. Unwanted Swift Concurrency Checking
  23. Rewriting Tumblr
  24. The End of Pinboard?
  25. iPhone 16 Pro Camera
  26. Swift 6
  27. Google Search Adds Links to Internet Archive
  28. Lost Internet Archive Accounts
  29. Feedback Feedback
  30. macOS Firewall Regressions in Sequoia
  31. Apple Drops Lawsuit Against NSO Group
  32. Canva Hikes Prices
  33. Little Snitch 6 and DNS Encryption
  34. Does Google Chrome Still Devastate Mac Battery Life?
  35. The Accuracy of “Find My” AirPods
  36. Glowtime Ennui
  37. macOS 15 Sequoia
  38. macOS 14.7 and macOS 13.7
  39. iPadOS 18
  40. iOS 18
  41. watchOS 11
  42. tvOS 18
  43. audioOS 18
  44. visionOS 2
  45. Alternative Distribution for iPad Apps in EU
  46. Inferring Typing From Sounds and Eyes
  47. Canceling the Unity Runtime Fee
  48. StopTheMadness Pro 9
  49. Xcode 16
  50. Age Verification and the App Store
  51. CodeEdit 0.3.1
  52. Swift Build Times and Module Verification
  53. iOS 18 AirPods Pro 2 Firmware
  54. Group Container Names in Sequoia
  55. Apple Loses Ireland Tax Case
  56. No Alternative Payments in Louisiana
  57. Apple Denies Evidence of Hiding Browser Choice Setting
  58. EU iOS Envy
  59. Apple’s DMA Compliance, Summer 2024
  60. What to Do With Unwanted Political Spam Texts
  61. iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
  62. iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus
  63. AirPods 4
  64. Apple Watch Series 10
  65. Default Folder X 6.1
  66. Spotify Connect Can No Longer Use iPhone Volume Buttons
  67. Google Drive Blocks Unverified Apps
  68. Founder Mode
  69. Git Tower 12
  70. Snow Leopard at 15
  71. Snapchat for iPad
  72. Apple’s Magic Sound File Renaming
  73. AnandTech Farewell
  74. Kevan Parekh Replaces Luca Maestri
  75. Apple Books Layoffs
  76. AppleVis Will Continue Under Be My Eyes
  77. Retcon 1.0
  78. FreemiumKit and RevenueCat
  79. The End of Finale
  80. The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth

August 2024

  1. Marathon Games on Steam
  2. Cancellable withObservationTracking in Swift
  3. SwiftUI Breaks Continuity Camera
  4. macOS Firewall Slows DNS Queries
  5. EditorConfig Files in Xcode
  6. Find Any File 2.5
  7. Calling async Code Synchronously in Swift
  8. Mobile Deployment Pipelines for $0
  9. Updating Apple Developer Credit Card on File
  10. Google Delayed Removing Yobit Pro Scam App
  11. Making Shortcuts’ Action Editor Easier to Browse
  12. Skip 1.0
  13. Migrating KeyboardKit to Swift 6 Language Mode
  14. Marlinspike on Agile and Security
  15. The NeXT IPO That Never Happened
  16. The Insane Engineering of the Game Boy
  17. Telegram Founder Arrested
  18. CarPlay Spinning Its Wheels
  19. Using Codable and Enums in SwiftData Models
  20. Chrome’s Manifest V3 and uBlock Origin
  21. Receiving RSS Feeds in E-mail
  22. Takeaways From the Vision Pro After 6 Months
  23. Apple Podcasts on the Web
  24. Apple’s Hidden AI Prompts
  25. iOS 18: Browser Choice and Default App Controls in EU
  26. App Store Business Reorg
  27. iOS 17 Search String Crash
  28. Pair Networks Sold to Your.Online
  29. Monument Valley 3 in Netflix Games
  30. Moom 4
  31. Swift Imposter Syndrome Meme
  32. Self-Hosted VPN App Rejected Due to IAP
  33. EagleFiler 1.9.15
  34. tvOS 17.6.1
  35. watchOS 10.6.1
  36. Apple Maps on the Web
  37. Apple Maps in Sequoia and iOS 18
  38. Roblox: the Biggest Game in the World
  39. VPN Apps in Brazilian App Store
  40. Brazil vs. Twitter
  41. Digital Services Act and Thierry Breton vs. Twitter
  42. Epic Games Store for iOS in the EU
  43. Epic Games Pays AltStore PAL’s CTF
  44. iPhone NFC Access Outside EU
  45. FastSpring Store Unexpectedly Offline
  46. Halide 2.15: Process Zero
  47. Managing the Home Screen Using iPhone Mirroring
  48. Flickr Improves Album Management
  49. EU Pricing Information in Spotify App
  50. Creator Platforms and the App Store
  51. iDOS 3 in the App Store
  52. Wrong About the App Store
  53. Apple Going After Patreon
  54. The Mac Is a Power Tool
  55. Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models
  56. Susan Wojcicki, RIP
  57. Collect Cards Bypassing App Review via CodePush
  58. Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews
  59. Apple Pressures ByteDance and Tencent Over IAP
  60. Allowing iOS PC Emulator Apps to Download Games
  61. DMA Compliance: Initial Acquisition and Store Services Fees
  62. Sequoia Screen Recording Prompts and the Persistent Content Capture Entitlement
  63. macOS 14.6.1
  64. macOS 13.6.9
  65. iOS 17.6.1 and iPadOS 17.6.1
  66. Safari Distraction Control
  67. Inside Apple Arcade
  68. Twitter for Mac Dead Again
  69. Discontinuing Spotify’s Car Thing
  70. Google Search and Ads Monopoly
  71. NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
  72. Google Chromecast to Google TV Streamer
  73. SuperDrive Sunset
  74. Beta for Apple Intelligence in Apple Mail
  75. Apple Intelligence Privacy Dark Patterns
  76. Apple’s Q3 2024 Results
  77. “Find My” Privacy
  78. Securing Virtual Machines on Apple Silicon
  79. Unread RSS Reader for Mac
  80. The Switch From File Paths to URLs
  81. Snapshots Aren’t Backups
  82. iStat Menus 7
  83. ContextMenu 1.4.3
  84. FileUtils 1.0.1
  85. Kaleidoscope 5.0.3

July 2024

  1. macOS 14.6
  2. macOS 13.6.8 and macOS 12.7.6
  3. iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6
  4. watchOS 10.6
  5. tvOS 17.6
  6. visionOS 1.3
  7. BitTorrent Apps in AltStore PAL
  8. Spain Investigates App Store
  9. Social Media AI Training
  10. The First Apple Intelligence Beta
  11. Magic Lasso Redesigned
  12. Actor Reentrancy in Swift
  13. Stripe Acquires Lemon Squeezy
  14. Sonos Apologizes for App Redesign
  15. HP Discontinues Online-Only LaserJet Printers
  16. SwiftData and Core Data at WWDC24
  17. SearchGPT
  18. Only Google Can Crawl Reddit
  19. Apple Commits to Opening NFC in EU
  20. Swift’s AnyObject
  21. Books for iPad Gets the Photos Treatment
  22. Steve Jobs: Objects of Our Life
  23. Safari Profiles and Extension Permissions Madness
  24. SwiftUI at WWDC24
  25. Google Breaking URL Shortener Links
  26. Scaling Back Apple TV+ Content
  27. India Calls Out App Store
  28. Taboola + Apple News
  29. CrowdStrike Update Causes BSOD
  30. Swift 6 Announced
  31. Google Docs Can Import and Export Markdown
  32. iDOS 3 Still Rejected From the App Store, Despite UTM
  33. Apple Passwords App in Sequoia and iOS 18
  34. System Settings in Sequoia
  35. Overcast’s New Foundation
  36. Safari Private Click Measurement and Firefox Privacy-Preserving Attribution
  37. Safari Private Browsing 2.0
  38. Safari 18 Announced
  39. XCTest in Xcode 16
  40. Swift Testing in Xcode 16
  41. Xcode 16 Announced
  42. Mac Marketshare in Q2 2024
  43. macOS 15 Sequoia Public Beta
  44. An Ode to the Volume Swipe
  45. NSCopyObject, the Griefer That Keeps on Griefing
  46. Chromium Browsers Preferencing *.google.com Domains
  47. UTM SE Now in the App Store
  48. Stack Overflow Changes Data Dump Process
  49. Midnight HomePod mini
  50. NSCopying in a Swift World
  51. Sequoia Beta 3 VMs Don’t Support Mac App Store
  52. Sequoia Finally Addresses Notification Center Privacy
  53. Transferring Google Photos
  54. Delta 1.6 Rejected From the App Store
  55. HTTP Status Codes As Area Codes
  56. Huge AT&T Data Breach
  57. Affinity Six-Month Trial
  58. Ricoh ScanSnap iX1600
  59. Mac UPS Software
  60. App Intents Dogfooding
  61. USPS Metadata Surveillance Program
  62. The Unofficial Apple AI Weblog
  63. Calling AI a Bubble
  64. Google Maps Is Killing Timeline for Web
  65. iOS 18: Vehicle Motion Cues
  66. CarPlay at WWDC24
  67. Mac App Impersonation
  68. Stack Overflow Links Pushing Malware
  69. Apple Intelligence for Siri in Spring 2025
  70. Ivory 2.0
  71. Signal for Mac’s “Encrypted” Database
  72. Epic Games Store Temporarily Allowed
  73. Dynamic Type on the Web
  74. Sequoia Removes Gatekeeper Contextual Menu Override
  75. Epic Games Store Blocked via Notarization
  76. Apple Removes VPN Apps From Russian App Store
  77. DOJ Investigating Apple-Google Default Search Engine Deal
  78. Bruce Bastian, RIP
  79. ChatGPT Privacy and Mac Sandbox Containers
  80. Longstanding CocoaPods Vulnerabilities
  81. AirPods Fast Connect Vulnerability
  82. Chrome’s Entrust Certificate Distrust
  83. Translation API in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia
  84. Deleting Messages Attachments Everywhere
  85. Feature Requests for Death
  86. On the Origins of .DS_Store
  87. Figma AI
  88. “Filter Unknown Senders” in Messages.app
  89. SpamSieve 3.0.5
  90. Keyboard Shortcut for Contextual Menus in Sequoia
  91. Stainless Steel Battery Case in iPhone 16
  92. Microsoft’s Suleyman on AI Scraping

June 2024

  1. RCS in iOS 18 Beta
  2. Removing Archives of Comedy Central and MTV News
  3. Longevity, by Design
  4. Porting Google Sheets Calculations to WasmGC
  5. Python Apps Rejected From App Store
  6. Rounded Quick Look Corners
  7. Mac Marketshare in Q1 2024
  8. Moaan InkPalm Plus
  9. Starlink Mini
  10. EU Charges Microsoft for Bundling Teams and Office
  11. Slack to Delete Old Messages in Free Accounts
  12. Apple News Publisher Sign-in Required
  13. Half-Life’s Canceled Mac Port
  14. llama.ttf
  15. visionOS Throttles CPU Based on Microphones
  16. Lightroom Classic 13.3 and 13.4
  17. MarsEdit 5.2.1
  18. Apple Found in Breach of DMA
  19. SwiftData vs. Realm Performance Comparison
  20. Always Allow Safari Bookmarklets
  21. iCloud Drive, Dropbox, and Proton Drive
  22. AI Companies Ignoring Robots.txt
  23. Pirate Ship
  24. No Apple Intelligence or iPhone Mirroring in EU at Launch
  25. Safe Superintelligence Inc.
  26. SuperDuper 3.9 Beta
  27. MicroMac: a Macintosh for Under £5
  28. OmniFocus 4.3
  29. Apple Intelligence Training
  30. Customizable Control Center and Lock Screen Buttons in iOS 18
  31. Tab Bar and Sidebar in iPadOS 18
  32. Arvind, RIP
  33. iDOS 3 Rejected From the App Store
  34. Former Head of NSA Joins OpenAI Board
  35. Rumored Thinner Apple Devices
  36. U.S. Sues Adobe Over Subscriptions
  37. EU to Charge Apple for Violating DMA
  38. Japan Passes Law to Allow App Marketplaces
  39. WWDC 2024 Links
  40. Private Cloud Compute
  41. UTM Blocked Outside App Store via Notarization
  42. iPhone Mirroring
  43. Dark Mode iOS 18 App Icons and Home Screen Personalization
  44. Redesigned Photos App in iOS 18
  45. Catalyst (Not) at WWDC24
  46. Using Apple Accounts With macOS Virtual Machines
  47. Apple Account
  48. Thank You, Big Nerd Ranch
  49. iOS RCS Support Delayed
  50. Window Tiling and Snapping in Sequoia
  51. Apple Intelligence Announced
  52. macOS 15 Sequoia Announced
  53. iPadOS 18 Announced
  54. watchOS 11 Announced
  55. tvOS 18 Announced
  56. iOS 18 Announced
  57. visionOS 2 Announced
  58. WWDC 2024 Preview
  59. Apple Mail’s Broken “Block All Remote Content”
  60. Import and Export From Apple Notes
  61. No Bounty for Kaspersky
  62. WWDC 2024 Wish Lists
  63. Updated Adobe Terms of Use
  64. MarketplaceKit License Renewal Problems
  65. Windows 11 Requires Microsoft Account
  66. Bartender Acquired by Applause Group
  67. Screen Time Bugs
  68. macOS Installer’s “Failed to Personalize” Error
  69. Proposed EU Chat Control
  70. Swift at 10
  71. SwiftData Issues in macOS 14 and iOS 17
  72. Privacy of Windows Copilot+ Recall
  73. “Lightning” Headphones That Require Bluetooth
  74. The End of ICQ
  75. AirTag Anti-Theft Successes

May 2024

  1. Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles As an AirTag
  2. Unwanted Tracking Alerts in iOS and Android
  3. Apple Silicon MacBook Pro Battery Replacement
  4. YouTube Playables
  5. iOS Retro Console Game Emulators
  6. App Store Apps Can Be Translocated
  7. CloudKit Throttles and Debugging
  8. Can Anyone But a Tech Giant Build the Next Big Thing?
  9. iPhones Pause Charging During Continuity Camera
  10. Dynamic Swift Predicates in macOS 14 and iOS 17
  11. Google’s AI Search and “Web” View
  12. Redesigned Apple Developer Forums
  13. The Dark Age of Authentication
  14. tvOS 17.5.1
  15. Mac App Rejected for Web Site Link
  16. The Man Who Killed Google Search
  17. Windows Copilot+ AI Features
  18. Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs
  19. Apple Updates Silently Enable iCloud Keychain
  20. Slack AI Privacy
  21. iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1
  22. Safari Hover Link Preview Keyboard Shortcut
  23. Swift FormatStyle Issues
  24. Sutskever and Leike Out at OpenAI
  25. iOS 17.5 Resurfacing Deleted Photos
  26. SpamSieve 3.0.4
  27. BBEdit 15.1
  28. Git Tower 11.0 and 11.1
  29. Carbon Copy Cloner 7
  30. Problems With App Store Bundles
  31. Web-Only Apple Music Features
  32. Emoji History: The Missing Years
  33. Delta’s 10-Year Journey to the Top of the App Store
  34. Shutting Down Facebook Workplace
  35. iOS 17.5 “Fixes” client_id But Breaks App Marketplaces
  36. Google Cloud Accidentally Deletes Customer’s Account
  37. VMware Fusion Pro 13 Free for Personal Use
  38. The State of iPadOS in 2024
  39. No Bounty for Kernel Vulnerability
  40. Criticism of Signal
  41. Revamping Siri With iOS 18
  42. watchOS 10.5
  43. Xcode 15.4
  44. macOS 14.5
  45. macOS 13.6.7 and macOS 12.7.5
  46. iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5
  47. tvOS 17.5
  48. audioOS 17.5
  49. Black Camera.app Screen and Broken Shutter Button
  50. Swift Proposal: Objective-C Implementations in Swift
  51. FDA Recalls Defective Insulin Pump App
  52. Apple Apologizes for iPad “Crush” Ad
  53. Apple Platform Security Guide (May 2024)
  54. Cuckoo Malware
  55. Root Privilege Escalation via diskutil
  56. Why In-App Purchases Don’t Work for the Enterprise
  57. Turning Off iOS 17 Contact Posters
  58. The Alternative Implementation Problem
  59. Shiny MacBook Keys
  60. Online Messaging Systems of Yesteryear
  61. Apple M4
  62. Final Cut Pro 2 and Logic Pro 2 for iPad
  63. Apple Pencil Pro
  64. iPad Pro (M4, 7th Generation)
  65. iPad Air (6th Generation)
  66. SteerMouse 5.7
  67. iOS 17 Calendar Search Failures
  68. Apple’s Third-Party SDK List for Privacy Manifests
  69. Swift’s Native Clocks Are Very Inefficient
  70. Error -609 Launching App From the Mac App Store
  71. Apple’s Q2 2024 Results
  72. Beats Solo Buds
  73. Tracking Through MarketplaceKit
  74. Core Technology Fee Exemptions
  75. EagleFiler 1.9.14
  76. Delta Emulator in the App Store
  77. AltStore PAL
  78. Photos Syncing With iCloud Paused
  79. The Joy of Shortcuts
  80. Qi2 Battery Packs and Chargers
  81. Compelled to Unlock With Fingerprint

April 2024

  1. Ive Drives Icons
  2. iPadOS Also a Digital Gatekeeper in EU
  3. Swift Proposal: Synchronous Mutual Exclusion Lock
  4. Losing Screen Time Settings
  5. Hearing for Apple Violating Epic’s Injunction
  6. Google Lays Off Python Team
  7. Janky Apple ID Security
  8. FTC Bans Noncompetes
  9. FCC Reinstates Network Neutrality
  10. Alexa Copyright Violations
  11. TikTok Ban
  12. Extending Section 702 of FISA
  13. Elegant Concurrency Operations in Core Data
  14. Charles Edge, RIP
  15. Fairphone Fairbuds
  16. How to Use Experimental Swift Versions and Features in Xcode
  17. Apple Maps in Tokyo
  18. Hackintosh Is Almost Dead
  19. The Apple Jonathan
  20. Apple Removes Messaging Apps From Chinese App Store
  21. VLC vs. the App Stores
  22. Color Kobo E-readers
  23. Optimizing WebKit & Safari for Speedometer 3.0
  24. Daniel C. Lynch, RIP
  25. Legibility and San Francisco
  26. Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?
  27. Cryptocurrency Apple Antitrust Lawsuit
  28. It’s Time for a New AirPort
  29. macOS 14 Sonoma vs. exFAT
  30. Jpegli
  31. Rediscovering CardDAV
  32. Twitter’s Pivot to x.com Is a Gift to Phishers
  33. The Apple curl Security Incident
  34. The Race to Replace Redis
  35. Mojo Is Open Source
  36. The Demise of Email Forwarding Is Getting Closer
  37. NSTableView With SwiftUI
  38. Keeping Your Data From Apple Is Harder Than Expected
  39. GM Stops Sharing Driver Data With Brokers
  40. Swift for C++ Practitioners
  41. Effects of the DMA’s Browser Choice Requirement
  42. “Don’t Let Me Go” and iCloud Storage Tiers
  43. Grindr’s Plan to Squeeze Its Users
  44. Used Genuine Apple Parts and Parts Pairing
  45. Apple Alerts Users to Mercenary Spyware Attacks
  46. Humane Ai Pin Reviews
  47. Automattic Acquires Beeper
  48. Run-time Polymorphism in Swift
  49. Universal macappstore: Links
  50. Facebook Blocking Links to Kansas Reflector
  51. Google Search Changes Hurt Independent Sites
  52. OmniFocus 4.2
  53. Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones
  54. AirTag Firmware Rollout Date
  55. Daylight Saving Time UI Design Test
  56. Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC)
  57. Voice Dream Reader Switches to Subscriptions
  58. Music App Links in EU
  59. Allowing iOS Game Emulators and Mini Apps
  60. Embedding a Privacy Manifest Into an XCFramework
  61. Macs Targeted by Infostealer Malware
  62. Recalling Apple v. Qualcomm
  63. Trying to Bring Apple Watch to Android
  64. Google Podcasts Is Gone
  65. AV1 Integer Overflow
  66. New FileVault Recovery Keys and GoFetch
  67. GoFetch
  68. Seven Years of APFS
  69. A Disk So Full, It Couldn’t Be Restored
  70. Checking Bootable Systems Using bputil
  71. Apple’s Problem With Lina Khan
  72. Switching From Xcode to Neovim
  73. Where iPad Fits In
  74. Oregon Passes Right-to-Repair Law
  75. AI and the Web Developer Job Market
  76. XPC Resources
  77. App Store Subscriptions and Family Sharing
  78. Apple’s Immersive Video Problem
  79. xz Backdoor

March 2024

  1. The Journal App’s “Discoverable by Others” Setting
  2. Those Obnoxious “Sign in With Google” Prompts
  3. StopTheMadness Pro
  4. Facebook’s Project Ghostbusters
  5. Giving Up on Siri and HomePod
  6. Siri Regressions in iOS 17
  7. “MFA Bombing” Attacks Targeting Apple Users
  8. 1Password.co Tracking Links
  9. Noncopyable Generics Walkthrough
  10. Canva Acquires Affinity/Serif
  11. DMA Non-Compliance Investigations
  12. Movie Piracy App Tops App Store Charts
  13. How to Recover macOS Recovery
  14. Digital Wallets and the “Only Apple Pay Does This” Mythology
  15. iPulse for iOS
  16. macOS 13.6.6
  17. macOS 14.4.1
  18. _eventFirstResponderChainDescription
  19. Apple Manuals, Specs, and Downloads
  20. Epic Challenges External Link Rules and Commission
  21. iOS 17.4.1 and iPadOS 17.4.1
  22. U.S. Sues Apple Over iPhone Monopoly
  23. PopClip Leaving the Mac App Store
  24. How to Bypass SwiftUI App Launch During Unit Testing
  25. Glassdoor No Longer Anonymous
  26. A Taxonomy of Prompt Injection Attacks
  27. Visual Studio App Center Retirement
  28. Monopoly Go Hits $2B in 10 Months
  29. DMA Compliance Workshop: Notarization and Core Technology Fee
  30. Clearing Space on Your Mac
  31. Joel Page, RIP
  32. MsgFiler 4
  33. Walmart Selling M1 MacBook Air for $699
  34. iOS Notarization’s Human Review
  35. Default Handler 1.0
  36. Spotify Anti-Steering Stonewalling
  37. Fake Bitcoin Wallet in the App Store
  38. Xcode 15: “no platform load command found”
  39. Nitro 2024.1
  40. DealMachine Subscription Cancellations
  41. Digital Services Act Compliance: App Store
  42. DMA Compliance: Google
  43. DMA Compliance: Custom External Link Designs
  44. DMA Compliance: Web Distribution of iOS Apps in EU
  45. Downie’s Anti-Piracy Scare Tactic
  46. Most Subscriptions Apps Do Not Make Money
  47. Mac Stuck in Recovery After Login
  48. Microsoft Ending Windows Subsystem for Android
  49. Features Lost Across Versions of macOS
  50. PopChar 10
  51. How AirPort Changed Everything
  52. Amazon Buy Box May Not Offer the Best Deal
  53. Mac Dialog in Auto Layout vs. SwiftUI
  54. App Marketplaces Will Stop Working If You Travel Outside the EU
  55. Apple Tweaks New EU App Store Business Terms
  56. DropDMG 3.6.7
  57. audioOS 17.4
  58. tvOS 17.4
  59. macOS 14.4
  60. macOS 13.6.5 and macOS 12.7.4
  61. EagleFiler 1.9.13
  62. iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4
  63. Apple Terminates Epic Games’ Developer Account Again
  64. ToothFairy 2.8.4
  65. HP All-In Plan
  66. Swift 5.10
  67. Xcode 15.3
  68. MacPad: Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet
  69. Keyboard Control of Messages.app
  70. Emulation on iPhone
  71. Nintendo v. Yuzu
  72. M3 MacBook Pro Multi-Display Support via Software Update
  73. MacBook Air 2024
  74. EU Fines Apple $2 Billion Over Anti-Steering Rules
  75. Thoughts on Apple’s DMA Compliance
  76. Should Game Porting Toolkit Be Built-In?
  77. Leap Year Bugs
  78. Time 1.0.0 Swift Package
  79. How the Swift Compiler Knows That DispatchQueue.main Implies @MainActor
  80. Where View.task Gets Its Main-actor Isolation From

February 2024

  1. FineWoven iPhone Cases and Watch Bands
  2. Why Quora Isn’t Useful Anymore
  3. Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
  4. Making Friends With AttributeGraph
  5. Apple Cancels Car Project
  6. FastScripts 3.3
  7. The “everything” NPM Package
  8. Reddit AI Training Data and IPO
  9. Slow Swift Macro Compilation
  10. Avast Fined for Selling Browsing Data
  11. Apple Arcade’s Uncertain Future
  12. Might Have Been
  13. A Complete Guide to Bluesky
  14. Vice and Engadget “Content”
  15. Apple Sports
  16. IAP Required for Insight Timer Tips
  17. Swift Scripts Importing Cocoa Frameworks Broken on macOS 14
  18. MacSymbolicator 2.6
  19. Muse Retrospective
  20. 2023 Six Colors Apple Report Card
  21. 2023 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card
  22. iMessage With PQ3
  23. Signal Usernames
  24. Kaleidoscope 4.3.1
  25. VirnetX v. Apple Over Because VPN Patents Invalidated
  26. 1Password Acquires Kolide
  27. Epic Gets New Developer Account
  28. Sonar 1.1.2
  29. EU to Fine Apple Over Anti-Steering Rules
  30. Fraudulent Rabby Wallet App
  31. Hidden Messages Features in iOS 17
  32. iOS RCS Support Due to China
  33. Reporting a Full Disk Access Bug to Apple
  34. The SwiftUI Field Guide
  35. Meta to Pass Along Fee for Boosted Posts
  36. iOS 17: Assistive Access
  37. U.S. Internet Leaked Years of E-mails
  38. On the Insecurity of Software Bloat
  39. Slack at 10
  40. Mac App Launches Slowed by Malware Scan
  41. Activation Behavior of a Global Command Palette
  42. CGContextHighlight2xScaledImages
  43. Apple News You Can’t Use
  44. Swift Collections 1.1
  45. Mail and Preview Working Together
  46. The iMessage Halo Effect
  47. Fraudulent Kimi App
  48. JuxtaCode 1.0.2
  49. Split View Proactive Peek and Reveal on Edge Hover
  50. Bumping macOS’s Major Version Number
  51. Dragging From a List With SwiftUI
  52. OmniFocus 4
  53. Apple Lobbying Against Right to Repair
  54. Fraudulent LassPass App
  55. iOS 17.4 Changes PWAs to Shortcuts in EU
  56. macOS 14.3.1
  57. watchOS 10.3.1
  58. iOS 17.3.1 and iPadOS 17.3.1
  59. MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE)
  60. How to Stop macOS Upgrade Notifications
  61. CGPDFService
  62. Inside Code Signing: Certificates
  63. Bluesky Opens to the Public
  64. Flickr and Facebook at 20
  65. Swift Tricks
  66. Pkl Programming Language
  67. Teatotaller Cafe v. Instagram
  68. Ruling in Vizio Lawsuit May Strengthen the GPL
  69. T? and Optional<T> Are Not the Same in Swift
  70. Tom Dowdy and SimpleText
  71. The Origin of Comic Sans
  72. Joe Rogan No Longer Exclusive to Spotify
  73. Launch Day Apple Vision Pro Apps
  74. Google Removes Cache Link From Search Results
  75. Tapestry Kickstarter
  76. Apple’s Q1 2024 Results
  77. Amazon Charging for IPv4 Addresses
  78. The End of Adobe XD?
  79. How to Mount HFS Classic Drives
  80. How to Choose and Customize a Mechanical Keyboard

January 2024

  1. Apple Vision Pro Reviews
  2. Castro Sold Again
  3. NSA Buying Logs From Data Brokers
  4. IFTTT Killing Legacy Pro Plan
  5. In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
  6. Portable EPUBs
  7. Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches
  8. App Marketplaces: AltStore and Epic Games Store
  9. Apple Podcasts Transcripts
  10. Platform Tilt
  11. Sign in With Apple No Longer Required
  12. Streaming Games in a Single App
  13. DMA Compliance: Default App Controls and NFC
  14. DMA Compliance: Alternative Browser Engines
  15. DMA Compliance: Interoperability Requests
  16. DMA Compliance: App Analytics and User Data Portability
  17. DMA Compliance: Alternative Payments
  18. DMA Compliance: Alternative App Stores But No Sideloading
  19. Not Owning Ubisoft+ Games
  20. The Mac at 40
  21. In Praise of Buttons
  22. Git Tower 10.3
  23. QuickTime As a Tape Archival Format
  24. Charging for “Remarkable Alexa”
  25. SwiftUI Main Thread Hang Detector
  26. PostScript’s Sudden Death in Sonoma
  27. Campfire Is ONCE #1
  28. Runestone Rejected From the App Store
  29. Best Mac Monitors and Displays 2024
  30. Classical Music and CarPlay
  31. macOS 14.3
  32. macOS 13.6.4 and macOS 12.7.3
  33. iOS 17.3 and iPadOS 17.3
  34. watchOS 10.3
  35. tvOS 17.3
  36. audioOS 17.3
  37. Prompt 3
  38. MouthPad^
  39. Google Removing Support for “Less Secure Apps”
  40. Netflix and the Initial Apple Vision Pro Apps
  41. StoreKit Purchase Link Entitlement for United States
  42. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple v. Epic Case
  43. Swift Protocol Requirement Quirks
  44. ScreenFloat 2
  45. Game Mode in Sonoma
  46. Bluesky Adds RSS
  47. Resolving Trusted Execution Problems
  48. Meetup and IAC Apps Acquired
  49. Unity Store Bans VLC
  50. Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?
  51. Easier Wallet Pass Sharing in iOS 17.2
  52. The Timer in watchOS 10
  53. Upgrading From an iPhone 12 mini to an iPhone 15 Pro
  54. BBEdit 15
  55. AirDrop Log Dehashing
  56. Displaying Progress Is Hard
  57. Easier Mac Audio App Installs
  58. Fixing Continuity Camera
  59. Mac App Sandboxing Interferes With Drag & Drop
  60. Apple’s Five App Stores
  61. Google Settles Incognito Lawsuit
  62. Mac Liquid Detection
  63. SwiftData Fetching Pending Changes
  64. The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
  65. Is Objective-C BOOL a Boolean Type?
  66. Apple Vision Pro Available February 2
  67. Xcode 15.2
  68. Clicks Hardware Keyboard for iPhone
  69. Automatic Grammar Agreement
  70. HEY Calendar Rejected From the App Store
  71. Taxatio Rejected From the App Store
  72. Niklaus Wirth, RIP
  73. How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now
  74. Doom at 30
  75. Apple’s Mac Gaming Push
  76. David Feldman, RIP
  77. Devices That Are Not USB C in My Life
  78. 3-in-1 Charging Stations
  79. Gitea Cloud
  80. Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs
  81. Sketch Returns to the Mac App Store

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