Actionable, a. A veiled proxy for the speaker’s laziness. Used as in “this isn’t actionable” to mean one or more of: Cannot Reproduce, n. A versatile term, often found as a formal state in bug / ticket tracking systems, which can mean various things: Crowdsourcing, n. The practice of making other people do your work… Read more
Perhaps in karmic balance of my previous post critical of one of Apple’s APIs, I want to highlight an Apple OS feature that I use every day, that ironically is so simple, obvious, and reliable that I almost never stop to appreciate it. Universal Clipboard basically just means you can copy something on one device… Read more
This is an elaboration of a post I made in a Swift Forums thread, SE-0419: Swift Backtracing API. The question was raised whether an official Swift backtracer should try to support code that doesn’t use frame pointers. Which immediately raised the question – in my mind – of if anyone is still using the “optimisation”… Read more
I’ve been getting this notification every morning, on both my Macs, for several days now. System Settings says Private Relay is active like normal, even so. Yet Mail refuses to load any images in emails. Yet Safari works fine. So it’s not at all apparent if Private Relay actually is working or not. Sometime during… Read more
Tonight I decided to give Kagi a try, after hearing John Gruber mention it a few times on Daring Fireball. I’ve used a mix of DuckDuckGo and Bing for over a decade now, and occasionally will still try Google in desperation. What I’ve noticed is a decade-long trend – accelerating in the last year or… Read more
I just read up a bit on io_uring, prompted by a Swift Forums thread relating to it, and it made me laugh. To a lot of people it’s an amazing new[ish] high-performance I/O system for Linux. Which it is (albeit with some serious security concerns, apparently). A lot of people are very excited by it.… Read more
macOS Sonoma is in so many ways a dumpster fire. It’s the worst Apple OS update I can remember (although admittedly there’s been some real stinkers over the years, so maybe I’m overlooking some repressed memories). There was of course the bug whereby encrypted external drives no longer mounted automatically. That was pretty special, because… Read more