The Desolation of Blog

I wasn’t going to blog about the Return To X fad.

This blog post is not about passkey attestation.

Many people have suggested that macOS 27 Golden Gate is a “Snow Leopard” release.

Almost everyone misunderstands Chrome extension manifest version 3, the successor to Chrome extension manifest version 2, MV3 and MV2 for short.

I wrote macOS Tahoe silently sabotaged the login keychain on September 10 and macOS 26.4 silently enabled login keychain data protection on September 21.

Below I’ve embedded via youtube-nocookie.com a screen recording of a macOS Virtual Machine showing the first run experience of the Meta Muse app.

Reddit announced yesterday the end of RSS support: Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through suppo…

On macOS, the most popular web browsers, and the ones I use most frequently, are Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

My blog post yesterday, App Store review allowed a Meta Muse copycat, highlighted not just one but three obvious scams currently in the App Store.

Muse from Meta in the App Store: Muse AI in the App Store: Compare the two app icons: Muse from Meta has the app subtitle “Your personal AI agent,” Muse AI “Your professional AI Agent.”

I’m boycotting the feedback-hostile Apple Feedback Assistant, so this blog post is my bug report.

TL;DR Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary, written by Geoffrey Cain, published in 2026 by Penguin Random House, recounts the life and career of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs between his stints at Apple, sta…

This is a follow-up to my September 10 blog post macOS Tahoe silently sabotaged the login keychain A subsequent addendum to the blog post noted that the change was introduced in a specific version of macOS Tahoe, 26.4, released by Apple on March 24.

With great dismay I read the blog post by Rich Trouton, Manually copying login keychain files from one Mac to another no longer works on Secure Enclave-equipped Macs running macOS Tahoe.

On Monday, Apple will release iOS 27 and macOS 27 (among other operating systems).

This blog post may be coming a year late, but I’m still running macOS Sequoia on my main Mac, macOS Tahoe only on a secondary Mac, so there are subtle Liquid Glass changes that take a long time for me to notice.

Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, The Verge, and Gizmodo, among others.

Last year I wrote a blog post Apple in China, Ripoff in Amazon about a copycat book in Amazon search results.

Occasionally my blog posts become news stories.

Although my business is to “stop the madness” on the web, I can’t seem to stop myself from the quixotic madness of posting articles on the web criticizing Apple’s curation of the App Store.

I was reading Apple’s August 13 court filing in the Epic trial, helpfully hosted by 9to5Mac, and I was surprised by a statement Apple made about its developer program: Unlike cost-only based commissions, Apple’s revenue-based commissions incentivize conti…

The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images.

In response to my article App Store allows developers to spam the submission and review process, MacStories published an article Raising the Gates Is Not the Way to Improve the App Store.

Yesterday I published a spicy tale of an App Store fraud perpetrated by a developer deep into AI slop.

Despite my history of uncovering App Store frauds, I rarely go looking for these things intentionally!

Ten years and one day ago, on August 9, 2016, I abruptly quit my job.

I use iCloud only for testing the iCloud sync feature of my App Store apps.

In 2023 I published a blog post The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard that included links to the release notes of some Mac OS X updates.

I’ve written very little on my blog about so-called Artificial Intelligence, an old term applied to a relatively new technology, Large Language Models (LLM).

I could have terminated the title of this blog post with “App Store” but wanted to talk about something specific that came up for me today: App Store user ratings and reviews.

A week ago I blogged about an app named Chrome Browser Default in the Mac App Store.

I use an M1 Mac mini for testing different major macOS versions.

Three years ago, I disclosed an unfixed vulnerability in the macOS App Management feature, which you can see in the Privacy & Security section of System Settings.

This is a loosely-based sequel to my May 16 blog post Mac App Store: What’s in a name?

This is a follow-up to my July 10 blog post, Apple Hide My Email bug, possibly related to disclosure vulnerability.

If I think about what I like and dislike about the internet, contrasting what I find pleasant or productive with what I find unpleasant or unproductive, I can’t escape the conclusion that debating strangers stands out as the principal activity that makes…

Yesterday I published the blog post Apple again black-holed my App Store Connect bug report, which complained that Apple has twice given up on investigating my bug report without requesting additional information from me.

I had filed a bug report with Apple Feedback Assistant: FB22952887 “App Store Connect page redirects to /login after already logged in.”

For five years I’ve used the free random password generator app PSWD from the Mac App Store, and I’ve been happy with it.

When you press the volume keys on macOS Sequoia and earlier, a nice big user interface appears as feedback, registering the volume change and displaying the new system volume.

As a software developer for Apple platforms, I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the years attempting to understand Apple financial statements, though I’m admittedly not an expert in corporate finances.

Last week a disclosure vulnerability in Apple’s Hide My Email feature was publicly announced and verified by a news media outlet, though the technical details of the vulnerability were not publicized.

Safari was inactive, in the background, with no windows open, when out of the blue I got a Little Snitch alert: Safari wanted to connect to the URL http://192.168.0.1/favicon.ico for some reason.

This may sound far-fetched, but I already found that iCloud remotely triggers iMessage sign-in and sync (as well as FaceTime sign-in).

WebKit, to quote its website, “is the web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux.”

Despite the fact that I never filed a report with Feedback Assistant, the bug that I discussed in my March 26 blog post App Store Connect analytics missing platform versions appears to be fixed now.

For years, I’ve followed Reddit via RSS.

Safari has traditionally supported the latest three major macOS versions.

Back in September, I blogged about a bug that I discovered: URL/NSURL double-encodes characters unnecessarily.

The web browser vendors continually add JavaScript API that prioritize the needs of web developers over web users.