I read up to book 11…hm, could up to two decades ago. Then lost track as Robert Jordan passed, Brandon Sanderson took over to finish the story, which understandably took a fair amount of time. Finally encountered these two (last one was out of stock) at the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In one of the updates between macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 whatever, confirming Apple Pay purchases on mac with iPhone stopped working. Restarted both devices, nothing changes. Logged-in into same account on both. I have no idea what to do here apart from signing out of iCloud on both devices...which […]

Finished “A Discovery of Witches”. Just perfectly fits my kind of fantasy show: great actor performances that elevates inevitably naive premise of wildly powerful creatures hiding and being somehow diminished by stupid humans. Wonderful series with basically no filler episodes.

This usage-per-platform graph in App Store connect is borderline useless. Who in their right mind cares about specific minor iOS version platform spread? I need to know how many customers I have on *major* versions so I can decide when to up my minimum deployment target.

Attempting to Get an app from macOS App Store. I am logged-in, Tahoe 26.4.1. No buttons to act on, just empty box. I can't fathom how is something like this even possible to happen.

Anyone knows what has changed in iOS 17 with NSCollectionLayoutSection' s `visibleItemsInvalidationHandler` so that transform or alpha changes to items are not applied on orthogonal scroll..? I am trying to create carousel-like view. It works as expected in iOS 16, nothing in later iOS versions.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116426544300181364 Apple has done this same thing with indie developers. I don’t know a single person any more that is genuinely enthusiastic to code on Apple platforms. It’s just a job that could be replaced with something else in a year.

Learning concurrency through crash reports, one at the time. https://aplus.rs/2026/concurrency-unowned-crash/

Sorry Studio Display, you can't get anywhere near this. ROG Strix XG27JCG, for ~€825 Variable refresh rate from 48 to 165Hz, 27in with proper 5K res, matte display.

Proxygen v5.0 is now available for Mac and iOS. It is the biggest update yet, including: - New Test tool with scripting, test assertions and variable extraction. - Environment variables that are extracted from responses and inserted using {{var}} syntax. - […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Modeled and printed out a shower drain grate for our very unusually sized drain. Given how small A1 mini’s plate is, I needed 6 pieces that interconnect this well see how it holds up over time. #3dprinting

Spectacular final of Age of Empires II and IV tournament organized and produced by RedBull. Finals now starting in Royal Albert Hall. https://www.youtube.com/live/-yTNOd4bAQk?si=WOY04lHCSMi7mnL0

Thanks @gruber for this excerpt: > But Forstall didn’t see the harm of developers spending their efforts making the iPhone better. “If they add something malicious, we’ll ship an update tomorrow to protect against that. But if all they’re doing is adding apps that are useful, there’s no reason […]

Every time I re-open Xcode 26.4, Claude Agent loses OAuth token. I always get this despite Settings showing it as logged-in. This happens only inside Xcode, in command-line Claude continues to work just fine, for days and weeks thus something is broken in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Simulators in Xcode 26.4 have broken sync of pasteboard with macOS. Paste does not work. Just 🤬 glorious.

🧐🤷🏻‍♂️ https://captainswiftui.substack.com/p/talking-liquid-glass-with-apple

I don't know if I have setup Claude to use some rather bad/outdated MCP (need to re-check that) or its training sources are bad. Whatever the case but I have at least one or two of these each day. 👨🏻‍💻 Claude uses entirely wrong assumptions, in this case […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Oh...good morning to you to, Swift 6.3 Thanks for that.

Yikes. 😳 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/21/apple-wanted-to-buy-halide-to-boost-iphone-18-pro/

My first Hackintosh machine from 2020 has served-out its purpose as hMac and it’s now a rather powerful gaming PC. Changed the motherboard to ROG Strix B550-I which has enough connectors so that all of that front I/O can actually work (a rare thing for that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This morning got a need to test an app in bad network conditions and this tool (found via @iosdevweekly) worked great: https://macos-network-throttler.com/

True, this. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR8EL9TASJA/?igsh=NTF0MHF1ZWphOGMw

Mac mini M5 Pro...when?

Has anyone found a reliable way to teach Claude Agent in Xcode 26.3 that it should never start 100s of XcodeUpdate tasks to edit one call site among many? That does not work at all since it trigger rate-limiting on Claude API and then I have 100s of tasks which should be working for 20ms but […]

Huh, there's now 5K 27in monitors for €500 from various never-heard-before brands. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0FGX8H9VN/

First IKEA Alex drawer modified for full extension. First pic shows the difference. Cut a groove to allow the slides to glide a bit using 3D printed groove cover. The retaining screw is placed inside small insert so it glides nicely and prevents the trash […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Unlike regular Apple Studio Display which is a joke in 2026, XDR version is quite something: 2304 mini-LED dimming zones, 120Hz 5K, 2000 nits etc — it's quite something albeit for serious money amount. Thus I went around looking for alternatives from other companies and encountered just a […]

This is undeniably amazing. One cable for 3 5K monitors running 10bit color apparently. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVd63TeCE8c/?igsh=YWU0b2tsbjYyMG8w

Lindsey Vonn has such an unbreakable spirit. Truly an inspiration for anyone to do better. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVg_ZO8Emjk/?igsh=MWllc2ZmOXdxbnV5Yg==

Years later and new Apple Studio Display seems a re-release of the same display tech with some port improvements. Such panels in the same chassis are less than 500 in China. Gating 5K 120Mhz at 3000+ price is utter nonsense.

Now that I am on 26.3 I started heavily testing how Claude Agent works inside it. For the most part is quite nice and I have not seen any particular issues in general use. UI to read Claude’s plan and reasoning is quite nice looking and readable. Ongoing code changes are nicely highlighted.

Almost all of my work is still UIKit and heavy use of storyboards and xib files which means heavy use of Interface Builder. That apparently is not the case at Apple since for at least 3rd straight major release I can feel that opening anything in IB becomes noticeably slower. Xcode 26 has at […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@groue/116080415960473488 This is pretty wild. Sounds like Apple proactively *modifies* postings by forum members. Let that sink in.

It's a new thing they just launched 2 days ago. If someone replies to you who is also bridged, then you get the reply on Mastodon from their Mastodon "mirror". But if they are not bridged, you can only get a DM from Bridgy w/ a link. Now they added a way to reply to those, a bit awkwardly, but still

I got notification from Bridgy Fed about two replies to a recent post coming from Bluesky. Not sure if I am doing something wrong here or that's just how it works but I only get a link to read this on Bluesky, with rather crude web UI which I am not sure did it even send the reply. I sort-of […]

This makes me so happy: I modded IKEA Nordli drawers to full extension using 11€ replacement slides. I’ve see people do this with Blum 560H slides but those are 29€ while I found equivalent model from GTV for ~10€. 400mm model fits into original cabinet screw […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Am I the only one who does not like using beta tools for primary work? I see a lot of people using Xcode 26.3 RC without public issues leading me question myself am I being too conservative. I am still on Xcode 16.4 as I got burned few times in the past switching to .0 versions and avoid them […]

I loved reading this. https://www.prndlcars.com/p/what-they-copied-ferrari-luce-jony-ive Some day I hope to be able to even try this out for a bit.

Last two episodes of Dunk & Egg are so good. I love it.

I realized in recent years that USA political system is something entirely unique: a 4-year revolving absolutist monarchy. It was masquerading as democracy with rule of law while most players pretended to play by the rules. Once someone who does not give a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Community expectations from @sdw joining Apple Design team are pretty high. It must be equally encouraging and frightening for one person. Good luck to him, I hope the work environment he finds is good.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Moltz/115953823742359296 But hey — he puts MLK quotes and photos on Apple homepage each year. Because he deeply believes in and stands by those worlds. And abides by his teachings. Applies them in everything he does. Yeah.

Am I being too old or there’s really no search inside Shared Albums in Photos?

For several days now, I am trying to hack around my ISP provisioned modem for fiber internet, attempting to use SFP ONU stick running open community firmware. It is a wiiiiiild thing how complex all this "plug the cable and it works" internet networking is. I have flashbacks to building […]

LG’s TVs have Ethernet ports but their mobile app devs apparently never used it. It seems I can’t add it to ThinQ app at all. What nonsense this is.

Stranger Things finale was the first time I have seen Netflix stream very pixelated. I truly wonder what was the number of concurrent watching.

This is just great...it seems most USB-C to Gigabit ethernet adapters do not work in macOS 15.x (likely also in 26) Pretty much anything using Realtek family of chips which is Anker, Belkin, UGREEN etc. Just glorious

I am not joking about rescuing projects. I have an 8yrs old project that never transitioned to UIScenes. App works perfectly. But it still application lifecycle. And now Xcode is throwing “…this will become an assert in future versions”. Ka-boom!