The Desolation of Blog

The Mythical Man-Month is a book by Fred Brooks about software project management.

Checking the Mac App Store charts for my own apps, I happened to notice an oddly-named app in the top ten list of Safari extensions in the United States: App for YouTube ℠.

Update: Apple has now finally released Safari 26.5 for Sonoma and Sequoia.

“Prevent cross-site tracking” is a Safari privacy setting, enabled by default.

A year ago I wrote a blog post App Store Curation identifying a scam in the iOS App Store: the app Virus Protection for Phone.

Back in February, I installed the Chrome extension Open in Firefox Browser to investigate a compatibility issue reported by a customer of my own extension.

The 50th anniversary of Apple’s founding, on April 1 1976, is this week.

I’m wondering whether other App Store developers can reproduce the issue that I’m seeing, which was occurring before the recent App Store Connect analytics design and continues to occur now.

Why do I file bug reports with Apple Feedback Assistant?

After gathering feedback from fellow App Store developers, I’m going to write a blog post (next week?)

As I mentioned in my recent blog post Safari web browser bugs: A year in review, I frequently browse Reddit and think Apple employees should too.

I started blogging way back in 2006, when I was also starting my career in computer programming, before I even had a job.

68 of my WebKit Bugzilla reports were opened or changed in 2025, which you can see if you click the previous link, though you might see only 67 reports in the list, because one security bug is still not publicly accessible. 66 of those 68 reports were new…

I was introduced to computers by my father, though not intentionally.

This is a follow-up to my recent blog post macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses.

I don’t normally review products that I have not purchased and have never touched.

A week ago I filed a bug report about Safari with Apple’s Feedback Assistant: (FB22057274) Pinned tabs: slow-loading target="_blank" links appear in the wrong tab.

I’m sometimes late to notice new and terrible things about macOS 26 Tahoe, because I use it only for testing, on a secondary Mac.

The next major version of macOS, presumably to be released in fall ’26 and numbered 27, thanks to Apple’s "crack naming team,” who are high on crack, is rumored to be “another Snow Leopard,” inspiring considerable hope and relief among Mac users.

In today’s macOS 26.3 update, Apple implemented a “fix” for an issue I blogged about a month ago, macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view.

Several months ago I blogged about switching from Google to DuckDuckGo for search.

I read Kirk McElhearn’s article I’m in the Epstein Files, which revealed that Jeffrey Epstein was a customer of my former employer Rogue Amoeba Software and a subscriber to their email list, which happened to mention Kirk’s book Take Control of Audio Hija…

According to the Apple support document How to identify the DFU port on Mac, the DFU (device firmware update) port location for MacBook Pro models with Apple silicon is as follows: 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 or M5 chip: The rightmost USB-C port when you’…

Hot on the heels of my previous blog post My collected App Store critiques, I have yet another critique.

I’ve been blogging since 2006—before the App Store existed—albeit with a three year blogging hiatus, 2010-2013.

After John Gruber linked to my article macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view, someone sent me a tip about an addition on macOS 26.2 to the Finder view options window, which you can open with the Show View Options command under the View menu.

This may not be news to some web developers, but it was news to me.

While I’ve been running Tahoe for testing purposes on a secondary Mac since WWDC 2025, my main Mac remains on Sequoia, and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.

I have a few updates since my blog post yesterday, The news media blew it again: iOS 26 adoption measured only third-party browsers.

I was investigating a strange Safari issue on macOS Tahoe, which I may or may not blog about later, when I discovered a nasty Finder bug, due to the nasty Liquid Glass redesign.

Last week I wrote a blog post criticizing news media coverage of a recent issue with Logitech mouse driver software, because the stories included misinformation about how macOS Developer ID code signing works, a subject on which I have significant experti…

Outside of professional Mac developers, few people in the world appear to understand macOS code signing.

While I’m waiting (too long) for Apple to review my App Store app update, I decided to write a blog post.

This is a follow-up to my recent blog post I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater.

This morning 9to5Mac reported, MacSync Stealer variant finds a way to bypass Apple malware protections, based on an investigation by Jamf.

This morning I reluctantly updated my iPhone SE (3rd generation) from iOS 18.7.2 to iOS 26.2.

The other day I released Link Unshortener version 19.8, which migrated its UserDefaults from its app container to a group container, in preparation for future changes.

This is a follow-up to my posts Academic philosophy: my quixotic quest and A critique of philosophical objectivity.

How can an App Store developer reach 10 million users?

I’m posting this as a mystery because I’ve lost much of my motivation to reverse engineer macOS.

If you hover over an https link in Safari, the status bar shows the full URL.

Earlier this month, Apple redesigned https://apps.apple.com, which is essentially a web preview of the App Store.

My business website has a number of “Download on the App Store” links for my App Store apps.

Today I received a shipment notification via text message to my phone number from a company unrelated to Apple.

My free open source app Stop The Mac App Store stops Safari from automatically opening the App Store app.

The behavior I’ll describe is the same with the Swift API URL and the Objective-C API NSURL.

According to the Apple press release announcing iOS 26: Browsing in Safari gets even more private with advanced fingerprinting protection extending to all browsing by default.

First reported a few weeks ago on Reddit and on Michael Tsai’s blog, this scam unfortunately continues unabated.

For your default search engine, the Safari address bar displays your search terms rather than the search engine URL You can specify your default search engine in Safari Settings.

My previous blog post, which I now retrospectively call Part 1, was about the lengths to which some software developers will go to avoid fixing bugs, and how the market fails to incentivize bug fixes.