Mathematicians occasionally uses "tack" symbols, ⊥ and ⊤, for various purposes. They're called that because they look like thumb-tacks from the side. But if you need a particular tack, what do you call it? Is "⊥" the "up" tack, because the pointy bit is up? Or is "⊤" the "up" tack, because it's […]

This is the complete list of macOS builds offered when filing a SwiftUI Feedback report. Many builds are missing, including the one I want to submit a report for (macOS 26.1 Beta (25B5042k)). This has been the case for a long time, so I finally filed a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Small SwiftUI popover tip shapes are weird in Tahoe. Sample project: https://github.com/siracusa/PopoverWeirdShape/ Filed as FB20345120.

The sequel to @neven’s Blackbar is much scarier than I thought it would be. https://youtu.be/sGKNhrxfTp8

Anti-Intel prejudice! This link works: https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_26.0.1/Xcode_26.0.1_Universal.xip

Coward

“since when does it matter where I save things to???” My daughter enters college and discovers the file system for the first time.

Another rejection for my app. Reason: “Your app includes content or features from LG TVs, or is marketed to control external hardware from LG TVs, without the necessary authorization” I included a chat with LG explaining I had express permission to control their TVs via their API. I’m […]

Love to work to get all my apps updated for Tahoe only to have Apple to break the Mac App Store so badly in Tahoe that people can't update or install my apps.

Me: why is everything so dusty? People who can adult: you have to dust. Me: what, like annually? Adults: no, more like weekly. Me: that can’t be right.

You know what kinds of images look especially good in the new Photos app design on iOS 26? Screenshots.

It’s becoming apparent that macOS Tahoe has a number of issues that completely break the Mac App Store for installing and updating apps, some of which that can only be fixed by booting to Recovery mode and using the command line 😅 That is an *extraordinary* state to launch an OS in. You may […]

After an hour of waiting, I decided to check how my iOS update is doing. (Yes, it’s attached to a charger and within feet of a Wi-Fi access point.)

I'm having a ton of trouble updating apps using the Mac App Store (on Tahoe) if there was a TestFlight version installed. It's left me in an unrecoverable state for more than one app where it won't install, won't cancel, and won't reinstall, even after a reboot, spitting out: Purchase completed […]

How many times am I going to look into the new “decoy vault” in the Tower? FFS! #destiny #iykyk

All my apps are updated for Tahoe🤞 https://hypercritical.co/apps/ If any of you early adopters find any issues, please let me know before Tahoe is released to the public in four days…

If you’re wondering if the ”moving controls” bug (shown in the linked toot below) still exists in Tahoe RC, the answer is yes. FB19814143 https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/115056778245928139

Hey, I got a response to one of my Feedbacks! Me: “In Xcode 26 beta 4, if a Mac app included a new Tahoe-style .icon file with the same name as its existing app icon in its .appiconset file, the Tahoe-style .icon would show up in Tahoe and the pre-Tahoe icon from the .appiconset would show up […]

Even after using Tahoe for months, I’m still regularly struck by something on my screen that I instinctively interpret as some kind of graphical glitch only to realize that it’s “working as intended” and that someone thought this design was a good idea. For […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An illegible new watch face is an appropriate way to “celebrate” Liquid Glass.

What a quote to start the event with. Yeesh.

There should be a word for the discomfort you feel when watching someone struggle to do something one-handed because their other hand is holding the camera that’s filming the struggle.

US Open: 🙅‍♂️ “Championship point” graphics and animations(!) on the on-court displays. 🙅‍♂️ Pyrotechnics behind the finalists after their speeches. (And the screens are still a shimmery mess on camera.)

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

How many years will we have to wait for a setting in the Instagram iPad app to make it stop showing the Reels view on launch? Probably less than 15, given how long it took Threads to add a similar setting, but it’s still enraging to hear the rationale from the guy in charge with no recognition […]

The Music Screeners series was a short-lived format that offered multimedia content on a 3.5-inch floppy disk. They were launched by Sony in late 1995 with 21 titles - more were planned for 1996 but this doesn't appear to have happened. Each disk was themed […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Are we decentralized yet? https://arewedecentralizedyet.online

"Open Source software is one guy off in the boondocks somewhere https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

Were these poll results upsetting to you? https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/115079399731417664 If so, you probably don’t want to look at these other poll results: https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115077716671007612

It was weird seeing Oscar in Foundation, right? And that voice!

You can still vote! I’m just not sure the percentages will move anymore. https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/115078749501719064

If you have a lot of AWS scars and you haven’t used it in a while, this article may be informative and/or traumatic. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-you-think-you-know-thats-now-wrong/

@siracusa I checked it just to see what devices it would offer, and my work computer showed up (I logged in once for a very limited, permitted reason) with an offer to cancel the company’s warranty plan and give me a $200 gift card. Feels like this product […] [Original post on masto.masto.com]

I finally called Apple Support and resolved my AppleCare One problem. It is as I suspected: AppleCare One does not correctly handle multiple user accounts in macOS. This is a known issue. No ETA for a fix. The solution? Cancel AppleCare One and sign up for individual warranties for the devices […]

Just one more data point in my (now resolved; details in a bit) AppleCare One saga. In addition to being wrong and infuriating, those “you have 24 hours to comply" emails I've been getting are also sent at nonsensical time intervals. Here's when I've received those emails about ONE specific Mac […]

And now thanks to @chaosexanima I can show you how the retractation works: - you get a notification when someone quotes you - on their post, you have a new menu to remove their quote of your post - you confirm, and your quote is removed and shown as having been […] [Original post on oisaur.com]

Every night, I guess.

I filed a Feedback and made sample project for this bug: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/115056778245928139 Apple folks: FB19814143 Sample project: https://github.com/siracusa/MovingFormControls/

❝ The crazy thing is not that garlic isn’t grown from seeds; it’s that, for the most part, it can’t be. Ever since people began cultivating garlic — six millennia ago by some estimates, 10 by others — it’s primarily been done through asexual reproduction. In all those thousands of years […]

Time for my daily AppleCare One threat.

The first of my two college-bound children has been dropped off.

Also consider getting one of these 24-hours-to-comply emails about a device in your home while you’re out of town for a week and then find the device has a hardware problem when you return https://mastodon.social/@ParadisePete/115059037238917768

PSA: In case you haven't heard me yell about this on @atpfm, I do NOT recommend AppleCare One because it simply DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED! If you sign up, be prepare for a 24-hour timer to start at any time on any day for the rest of the life of the AppleCare One plan that will cause one of […]

Screw you, AppleCare One! I am logged into this Mac with my Apple Account RIGHT NOW! As I always am! Screw youuuuuuu! 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

@siracusa That is SF Symbol “macpro.gen3”

@siracusa What a cool feature you found. Works in my app as well. UsingTabView with Forms, but using .frame(…) instead.