✅ COVID and flu shots for this season

TIL a new word: workslop. "AI-generated ‘workslop’ is here. It’s killing teamwork and causing a multimillion dollar productivity problem, researchers say" 1/3

Vidimote 1.9 for Safari for #macOS26 #Tahoe is out! What's new: - redesigned PiP extension: now with position slider & Skip button - overlay actions like Skip & PiP now grouped - adopts liquid glass in native UI Web: www.iospirit.com/products/vid... Mac App Store: apps.apple.com/app/vidimote...

When Apple announced Pasteboard Privacy in May, the assumption was that it'll arrive in the next major macOS release. But AFAICS - unless you turn it on explicitly via defaults - it seems absent in the macOS 26. 1/2

Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift

The Group Labs at #WWDC25 were fun and informative, providing information and context not available in the videos and dev docs. If you missed any, DTS has published transcripts on the Developer Forums: developer.apple.com/forums/searc...

Why would I want to ever sign in to ChatGPT then, Xcode?

Just spent hours trying to install macOS 26b2 on an external SSD. After rebooting, it just wouldn't complete but boot back into macOS on the internal SSD eventually. 1/3

I had hoped that the Mac mini M1 with 8GB RAM would be sufficient to explore Xcode 26 and *OS 26 development. But no. 1/2

Xcode 26 adds an option to generate string catalog comments for newly-added strings by analyzing surrounding source code. Will be interesting to see in action. #WWDC25

Looks like you can only use Xcode's AI features when installing Tahoe on the internal SSD of your Apple silicon Mac. I tried all other options: -it's not supported on Sequoia -it's not supported on Intel Macs -it's not supported in VMs -it's not supported when the system is on an external drive 1/2

New in macOS Tahoe: the OS alerts the user if an app continues to run after the user closed it. #WWDC25

Two surprises from the new PaperKit framework session: - it's UIKit-/AppKit-first - the class names have no prefixes Video: developer.apple.com/videos/play/... #WWDC25

LOL, the Touch Bar also got an update 😜 #WWDC25

Containerization looks very impressive - essentially allowing to pull and run Docker images and containers with Apple-provided tools and frameworks. It even appears to allow running x86 images on Apple silicon. 1/2 #WWDC25

Good and bad news after watching "Finish tasks in the background": The good: unlike what I initially believed after watching the keynote, the new background capabilities also come to iOS. 🎉 1/2 #WWDC25

The Finder window in "Meet Liquid Glass" (9:59) looks different than what I see on my Mac in the Dev Preview: - better contrast between elements and content - higher line height - permanently visible disclosure triangles in the sidebar 1/2 #WWDC25

I really hope Apple will improve the contrast of the new UI on macOS before release. Looking at Finder, f.ex., as it is right now, everything looks like it's bleeding together - with barely identifiable boundaries between sidebar and content. 1/2 #WWDC25

macOS 26 Tahoe is the final release for Intel Macs #SOTU #WWDC25

"Adopting Liquid Glass" covering - at first glance - UIKit and SwiftUI: developer.apple.com/documentatio... #WWDC25

FWIW I'm offered the macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta on my Intel MBP, too. #WWDC25

Downloads are up - and include links to Release Notes (which still 404 for me): - Downloads: developer.apple.com/download/ - macOS 26 RN: developer.apple.com/documentatio... - iOS/iPadOS 26 RN: developer.apple.com/documentatio... #WWDC25

Massive WebKit updates in Safari 26 beta: - SVG icons - WebKit in SwiftUI - <model> on visionOS - WebGPU support - CSS updates - … webkit.org/blog/16993/n... #WWDC25

It will be interesting to see if or how much of the new visuals will be SwiftUI-exclusive. And for those that are not: how they're also made available to AppKit and UIKit. 1/ #WWDC25

Maybe it's not so bad when seen on device, but from this screenshot iPadOS' new look really pains my eye: -the radius of sidebar & window don't match -the small traffic light icons just look really off next to the toolbar icon -that icon also looks off next to the free-floating toolbar icons #WWDC25

🚀 Vidimote for Safari 1.8.5 is now available via the App Store! The new version improves support for videos embedded in particularly complex ways and fixes a few bugs. If you don't know Vidimote yet, check it out now: vidimote.app

🆕 Do more with your Satechi R2 Remote! With Remote Buddy 2.7, per-app configuration of most buttons is now possible: www.iospirit.com/blog/2025/03...

I've been sitting on this story for months: The best iPad apps I've used lately are…web apps. Groundbreaking iPad-only apps are now a lost art, and only Apple is to blame. The iPad's "Sweet" Solution www.macstories.net/stories/the-...

This was a hard one. But we, as developers for Apple platforms and as humans, have a responsibility to respond. www.massicotte.org/leverage

Here's a glossary for Swift concurrency. I've been asked about this a few times, and I finally sat down to do it. www.massicotte.org/concurrency-...

The #RaspberryPi USB 3 Hub is - hands-down - the best USB 3 Hub I've had to date (and I've tried _many_ this year). For the last 3 weeks, it has worked absolutely flawlessly with everything I plugged into it. 1/

Putting together a CocoaHeads Nuremberg list: bsky.app/profile/feli... If you're missing, let me know in a reply. 🙂

Currently back to work on one of my golang side projects, I stumbled across this list of 27 #golang gotchas. Some of which I didn't know about before. Recommended read if you're doing anything in golang: yourbasic.org/golang/gotcha/

There‘s not much I miss on Bluesky, but I really miss bookmarks. I don‘t want to have to „like“ everything I may want to come back to or save for later.

It's such a joy to see Mastodon and Bluesky really pick up steam recently! Great to see so many familiar - and new - faces on here! 🙂

This weekend, we released Remote Buddy 2.6.1 with an important fix for macOS Sequoia. For the smoothest experience, please install the update before installing macOS Sequoia. www.iospirit.com/blog/2024/09...

TIL that in #macOS #Sequoia SecPKCS12Import() fails with error errSecAuthFailed ("Authorization/Authentication failed") when trying to import PKCS12 data that's "protected" with an empty password (""). 1/2

Ok, so iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will be released on September 16th. #AppleEvent #iOS #macOS #ReleaseDate

#Protip for anyone watching #WWDC24 videos in Safari on Mac: my extension @vidimote.app can add speed, skip fwd/backward 10 sec and remaining time controls to Safari's PiP window. More info: vidimote.app

#Protip for anyone watching #WWDC24 videos in Safari on Mac: my extension @vidimote.app can add speed, skip fwd/backward 10 sec and remaining time controls to Safari's PiP window. More info: vidimote.app

Barely visible to the naked eye, but spectacularly colorful in the 10s shot with an iPhone 12 around 2 AM. #AuroraBorealis #NorthernBavaria

I was wondering why a civil airplane this size is flying so low above our area, looked it up on FlightRadar24 and it sure seems like a map service is taking aerial shots for 3D maps. I'm sure happy we cleaned up the mess in the garden yesterday.

If true the App Store in China could shrink significantly in 2 days: "Existing apps must provide a valid ICP Filing Number before March 31, 2024, or face removal from app stores in China." (source: www.21cloudbox.com/how-to-get-m...) (1/2)

For a few major versions now (IIRC since the Big Sur redesign), macOS no longer has a sidebar icon for servers identifying as "Xserve" - instead showing a placeholder "document" icon. It's silly, but it saddens my inner geek every time I notice.

Looks like the email addresses that need to be listed on the #AppStore are already being harvested and targeted by spammers and phishers. This is literally the first mail this address - which I created specifically for listing on the #AppStore - has received.

If you're looking for a way to record and send IR commands from your Mac app, look no further:

🚀 Remote Buddy 2.6 is here with: - global custom actions - a new Shell actor to run shell scripts and more - broader IR support to record & send IR commands (also via AppleScript & command line) - support to control @iina_app - many detail improvements www.iospirit.com/blog/2024/03...

Finally got around to open accounts for @iospirit.com, @remotebuddy.app and @vidimote.app here on Bluesky. 🙂

Hello fellow iOS and macOS developers! 👋

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