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If you compile an AppKit app with the macOS 14 SDK in Xcode 15, the default font size of several NSControl subclasses increases from 12 to 13 when the app runs on macOS 14 Sonoma.

What happens when you update a Safari extension in the App Store while Safari is open?

I wasted at least an hour debugging what I incorrectly assumed was a Mac app sandboxing issue, because I believed what the NSFileManager error told me.

The myth of Snow Leopard was started by Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Bertrand Serlet at WWDC 2009.

Michael Tsai's encyclopedic blog has discussed issues with Mac App Store receipt validation in 2019 and again in 2022.

Following up on yesterday's announcement of an Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant, I've now created an official web page for the boycott, an email address, an RSS feed, and a Mastodon account.

I'm organizing a boycott of Apple's Feedback Assistant, starting immediately, and I encourage all Apple developers to join me.

This blog post is a follow-up to How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console, which was itself a follow-up to Xcode 15 logs nil as an empty string, not (null).

Last year I wrote about why the macOS Ventura share menu is bad, but that was from a user interface perspective.

Advanced tracking and fingerprinting protection is a new feature of Safari 17 that's enabled by default in private browsing on iOS and macOS.

Safari 17 has a new hidden feature that I wasn't even aware of until a customer brought it to my attention.

This is a follow-up to my recent blog post Xcode 15 logs nil as an empty string, not (null).

A few days ago, Howard Oakley wrote an article LaunchServices problems in Sonoma 14.0, I wrote a comment on the article, and today Howard wrote a follow-up article LaunchServices problems and Ventura.