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Pro tip if you have Apple News+ (it's included in Apple One). It has access to a whole bunch of newspapers and other sites that are normally behind paywalls, e.g. Wall Street Journal.
If you come across a paywalled article and you're in Safari, open the "Share" menu and there should be an item […]
18.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
@stroughtonsmith F
16.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another day, another support email from someone who can't find the feature in my app that was hallucinated by ChatGPT. 🤦♂️
13.11.2025 00:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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 […]
12.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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)
🤯🤯🤯
12.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Arrested development banana meme, captioned: “I mean, it’s a piece of cloth, Michael. What could it cost, $229?”
11.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
07.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@mergesort You're absolutely right, buddy!
07.11.2025 19:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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 […]
07.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot showing a new “Resize columns to fit filenames” view option for column mode in the Finder.
OMG everyone update to macOS 26.1 then press command-j in column mode in the Finder RIGHT NOW
06.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
macOS Apps Step by Step book cover
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
06.11.2025 00:05 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Grim reaper at the claw machine: “Dick Cheney! Fuckin a I’m on a roll!”
04.11.2025 13:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@stroughtonsmith "Oh no, I left my Settings app in the backyard!”
02.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
*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
24.10.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@designatednerd It's the thought that counts.
24.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@simon Yeah, I often find it useful if I can say “Do the same thing that code X over here is doing, but change it like Y and Z.”
23.10.2025 05:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
21.10.2025 03:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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. 😂🤦♂️🫠
20.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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I asked this question to Claude, note its usage of the word "cromulent" in the reply. 😂
Practical usage: In everyday discussion, developers often just say "the object" or use whatever keyword their language uses. But "receiver" is a perfectly cromulent term that most programmers would […]
16.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?
16.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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 […]
15.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Got a replacement iPhone at the Apple Store, easy peasy. Apparently the iPhones 17 are so new that they don't even have replacement parts to do repairs yet LOL. The slowest part was that I then had to go over to the AT&T store to have them transfer my eSIM.
11.10.2025 21:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@pasi Yup, several times, no dice unfortunately.
11.10.2025 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Welp, woke up this morning and my iPhone's screen won't turn on. Looks like I get to go to the Apple store! 🤦♂️
11.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
[impacted ear wax]
@aleen Yeah, the drops never seemed to do much for me, but maybe some drops combined with syringe blasting will do the trick!
10.10.2025 20:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
