Another day, another support email from someone who can't find the feature in my app that was hallucinated by ChatGPT. 🤦‍♂️

My daughter and her friend built a fort on our back deck over the weekend using our patio furniture with a bunch of chair pads on the floor, and a car cover draped over the entire thing so they could hang out and read underneath. We're expecting rain, so we disassembled the fort this morning to […]

Encountered a new record today, had a customer whose PowerPhotos merge was taking forever, and it turned out their library has over 200,000 albums. Not photos, albums. (they *only* have like 110,000 photos) 🤯🤯🤯

I FUCKING CALLED IT https://boingboing.net/2025/11/10/trump-stiffs-east-wing-demolition-crew.html #uspol https://mastodon.social/@bwebster/115410062763344955

One thing I find myself doing more as a result of using AI coding tools is leaving more comments in my code as a way of explaining code’s purpose to the agent when it comes across a particular piece of code. But of course this benefits future-me too, so it seems like a win-win!

I thought the new "pinned" playlist feature in Apple Music would be useful, except that for some bizarre reason, they decided that once you pin a playlist, you can't add new tracks to it. You have to unpin it, add tracks, then repin it again. You can still delete tracks from it when it's pinned […]

OMG everyone update to macOS 26.1 then press command-j in column mode in the Finder RIGHT NOW

I've just published the 4th edition of macOS Apps Step by Step formerly titled macOS by Tutorials. Read the details and check out a sample chapter at https://troz.net/books/macos_apps_step_by_step/ #macos #swift #swiftui #appkit #techbooks

*yawn* Wake me up when Halo comes to the Mac, as God intended. https://www.theverge.com/news/805174/halo-campaign-evolved-remake-xbox-ps5-release-date

You just know whenever Trump is finished knocking down the White House and building his fucking ballroom or whatever that he's going to stiff the contractors who did the job. #uspol

It was picture day at my daughter’s school today. We just got a text from the school saying picture day has been postponed due to the Amazon Web Services outage. 😂🤦‍♂️🫠

One term I really like from Objective-C is "receiver”, i.e. the object which is receiving a message, or in other words, the object upon which a method is being called. Is there a common term that other languages use for this?

About syntax highlighting https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

But why stop there? I say go all the way for the Vision Pro Beer Helmet. https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/115380307394576570

Haha, Claude Code just discovered a typo in one of my database table names that's been there for a couple years (instead of “reportMetadata" it's “reportMedatata”). I can't fix it because it would break backward compatibility, but at least I can put a comment there in case I come across it again […]

Bring back the Pippin you cowards! https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115367951162052580

Thank goodness, this clears up all the confusion. Now I can watch Apple TV on my Apple TV using Apple TV. Now if only they would make the Apple TV… https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/13/apple-tv-rebranded-as-just-apple-tv/

Welp, woke up this morning and my iPhone's screen won't turn on. Looks like I get to go to the Apple store! 🤦‍♂️

Maybe Tim Apple can make another gold trophy labeled “Nobell Prize” to make poor Donny feel better. #uspol

Read this blog post by @lapcatsoftware about fake GitHub repos imitating real apps. Did a search for PowerPhotos and sure enough, found a couple hits. Good news is I reported it to GitHub and they took it down within a day. Could be an uphill battle if the scammers keep up the pace though […]

Fat Cat Software recently asked for our help updating the PowerPhotos icon for Liquid Glass. We had a blast revisiting the charming little bot! Let us know if you need help with your app’s icon. #icondesign #liquidglass #dev #mac

Loving Tahoe's minigame of "At a glance, which window is actually the active one?” Challenging!

Just got my flu and COVID vaccinations! 💪

OK I saw multiple posts mentioning a matador cross my timeline so I searched “matador” in the news and I regret my life choices right now.

I've got my new iPhone 17 setup (yay!) but trying to connect from my Mac via iPhone Mirroring, it seems to only want to try to connect to my old phone. The interwebs say there's supposed to be a menu in System Settings >Dock & Desktop > Widgets (😵‍💫) where you can choose which iPhone you want to […]

Yo dawg, I heard you like tracking…

OK UPS driver, you've got 25 minutes to deliver my iPhone, OR ELSE… I'm going to have to wait longer. 😭

Two iPhones 17 Pro ordered! Blue for me, silver for my wife, both 256 GB. I initially selected for mine to replace my current phone on my carrier, but that pushed out the ship date by a week, so “connect to carrier later” it is! Replacing iPhones 11 and 12, so should be quite the difference.

Oh boy, new iCloud Terms and Conditions day! 🎉 Uhhhhh hmmmmm

Folks who buy iPhones for their families: is there any downside to me purchasing both our phones using my own Apple Account? Is it worth the trouble to order mine using my account and my wife's using her account, or does it really not matter where the purchase happens in terms of associating […]

macOS Tahoe will be released on 9/15.

iPhone: Oops, All Bump #AppleEvent

I’ll never not be bugged by Apple refusing to use “the” when referring to one of their products. It’s like the inverse of people in L.A. referring to freeway numbers. #AppleEvent

Hey, my Apple Watch told me my blood pressure went up while watching the video telling me I need to buy an Apple Watch or I’M GOING TO FUCKING DIE #AppleEvent

Does live translation support Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra? #AppleEvent

Hey Swift compiler nerds, found a crasher for you! https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/84106

Who the hell are these people who reply to an email 30 seconds after I send it? It's unnatural.

TIL the version of the Jaws theme on Apple Music has live lyrics. 😂

Hey, I’m on a podcast! Had a fun time chatting with with Stephen and David about PowerPhotos, iPhoto Library Manager, the early OS X days, AI coding, and a bunch of other Apple nerdery. https://relayfm.social/@mpu/115044706557425022

OK I'm trying to put icons in my menu items to be all Tahoe-y and it seems like adding them in a xib file just… doesn't work, at least for SF Symbols? I input the SF symbol name in the "Image" field, check the “Action Image (macOS 26+)" checkbox, the image […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

OK Apple folks, got a fun feedback item, FB19647204 If you compile a macOS app using Xcode 26 beta (I've tried both 4 and 5) which loads an NSScrollView in a .xib file, when you try to launch the built app on macOS 15 or earlier, it crashes with an exception complaining about not finding the […]

Dramatic little kitten!

I just threw up a little in my mouth. Then I threw up a lot outside of my mouth. https://mastodon.social/@verge/114984042984192605

I've never found anyone else who remembers this moment so I feel it's my duty to resurface this quote, but I think about it any time someone tells me we should listen to Eric Schmidt about anything whatever dumb idea he's currently trying to sell […] [Original post on macaw.social]

Diagonal cat FTW https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/114891626550644961

I found that I prefer blocks for one time use things (e.g. completion handlers), but for repeated messages, I still use delegates quite extensively. If something has to hold a block as an ivar, it’s usually a pain in the ass to figure out what that actually refers to. With delegates everything […]

Hey, go get your icons done by these awesome designers at @iconfactory! Look at this little robot dude they did for me. LOOK AT HIM! He's adorable. Worth every penny. https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/114835065685492567