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That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI (opens the original)
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The latest macOS is a nice step toward a good-looking Mac UI, but I do wish it had gone farther. I am in particular not a fan of how Mac toolbars look. I don’t like the full-height sidebars and I especially don’t like the Liquid Glass buttons. I looked around at what other Mac apps are doing. I asked on my microblog which gets syndicated to Mastodon and I also looked at replies to Isaiah’s similar question from a few d
After Fixin’ the Bugs (opens the original)
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Fixed ’em. Fixed ’em all. Well, almost all — down to 10 bugs on the NetNewsWire bug tracker. (See the Mac 7.1.3 release notes and iOS for the big list of just-fixed bugs.) This means I’ve gotten the app to the place I’ve wanted to get to for a long time, where the bug count is manageable and close to zero. So it’s 10 bugs at this writing — and 556 f
Tech Choices (opens the original)
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Of course it’s okay to criticize people for their tech choices — for returning to X, for instance, as MacStories recently did. I’m not on X and there’s no way I would return. Fuck that place and fuck Elon Musk. (Yes, there’s a brentsimmons there, but it’s not me. I deleted my account.) But it’s not like my tech choices are free of fascists and collaborators — and yours almost surely aren’t either. Do you have an iPhone? A Mac or iPad? Do you order from Amazon, buy groceries from Whole Foods, or
James Dempsey’s Breakpoints Jam in Seattle Aug. 20 (opens the original)
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One of the highlights of any year for me is when I get to play in a James Dempsey Breakpoints Jam — and we’ve got one coming up in a few days! It’s this Thursday Aug. 20 at Stoup Brewing in Ballard. Start gathering around 6 pm to hang with fellow Apple nerds. The show will start around 7 pm. See the Xcoders post James Dempsey and the Breakpoints Jam — More Details for the full scoop (including details on where at Stoup, the food truck, etc.). This year’s band, the conditional Breakpoints, will b
New NetNewsWire Crash in iOS 27 Beta Has Made Me a Bit Salty (opens the original)
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I returned from a lovely summer vacation (family, beach) to find that iOS 27 beta has fucked up the transition between split view and compact — I’ve got a boatload of crashes, mostly on Pro Max devices and a few on iPad. Here’s a representative crash log. The feedback in TestFlight all talks about rotating the phone. Here’s the thing: iOS app development (and Mac, but to a lesser extent) is just constant churn. I thought I was getting a year off this year! But nope. There’s always something. My
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