Reverse Everything

Apple celebrates some of the Mac's most useful utilities.

Keeping local files on an iPhone should not mean constantly deciding what to delete.

I make and test my apps on my own.

Why Finder folder sizes, space on disk, and available storage tell different stories.

Finally, automatic file compression and deduplication that keep your files in place and ready to use.

Facebook deleted my work, ignored a scammer using my old page address, and accused me of impersonating my own project.

I want to trust the apps on my Mac.

Apple now lets existing universal Mac App Store apps requiring macOS 13 or later drop Intel support, encouraging more Apple silicon-only releases.

My 2017 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, BetterTouchTool, Theine, iTerm2, OnyX, and three exclusive interviews with the people who kept these Mac apps alive.

Joël Barrière explains how OnyX grew from four checkboxes into a free Mac utility that he has maintained for more than twenty years.

George Nachman explains why he continued iTerm as iTerm2, the difficult problems inside a terminal emulator, and how he has kept it free and open source.

Martin Lexow explains how Theine became feature complete, why long-lasting design matters, and how he has supported it for more than ten years.

For some one-time-purchase iPhone and Mac apps, adding a free trial can weaken App Store discovery and complicate institutional volume sales.

Why I built App Archiver, how it keeps rarely used Mac apps visible, and how staged compression and restoration reclaim lasting disk space.

How a Fire TV Stick led from unreliable updates and logcat URLs to FTVDB, a community index of public Amazon device update metadata.

Display Menu, PopClip, Sublime Text, and WiFiSpoof, plus three exclusive interviews with the developers who kept these Mac apps alive.

Nick Moore explains how PopClip began, how its core interaction survived years of macOS changes, and why simplicity matters in long-term app development.

Thorsten Karrer explains why Display Menu was created, how Retina support was reverse engineered, and what keeps this focused Mac utility alive.

Russell Gray explains why WiFiSpoof began, the App Sandbox challenge, and what helped this focused Mac utility survive years of platform changes.

Xcode 27 turns old deployment targets into build errors.

A practical approach to using AI for prototyping and development without losing understanding, maintainability, or responsibility for the software we build.

Find Any File, PCalc, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, and iStat Menus, plus exclusive interviews about keeping Mac apps alive for decades.

Thomas Tempelmann explains the file-system knowledge behind Find Any File, the features users requested, and why it remains a one-time purchase.

James Thomson explains how PCalc began in 1992, survived major Apple platform transitions, and remained a one-time purchase.

Bjango explains how iStat Menus grew from Dashboard widgets and what it takes to support changing Mac hardware for nearly two decades.

Returning to Mac with a 2014 MacBook Pro, the apps that made macOS work for me, the utilities that disappeared, and exclusive interviews with long-time Mac developers.

Objective Development explains how Little Snitch changed over two decades and what keeps the team building it through major macOS transitions.

Richard Hult explains why Keyboard Pilot returned, what its modern rewrite required, and how small updates can keep an app alive for years.

Adrián Granados shares how WiFi Explorer and WiFi Signal grew from a research tool into dependable apps for Wi-Fi professionals and Mac users.

The first part of my Mac apps story, starting with my 2008 MacBook, my early switch from Windows to Mac OS X, and why I still use coconutBattery today.

How I traced Dropbox filesystem changes on a clean macOS VM and made a dry run first script to remove Dropbox local state, caches, services, and File Provider leftovers.

A practical macOS security workflow for inspecting an app bundle, looking for network-capable code, and deciding what to allow before you trust an app.

A personal introduction to Reverse Everything, a blog by Ighor July about software, reverse engineering, apps, bugs, and the stories behind the tools I use and build.

How Parall creates native macOS app shortcuts for launching multiple independent app instances, including isolated browser and Dropbox workflows.

A 2025 report on a ChatGPT for macOS freeze, OpenAI support responses, and the localization setting that caused the model selector bug.

A DockLock story about the long-running macOS Dock jumping problem, the first fixes in DockLock Lite and Plus, and the DockLock Pro direction.

A 2024 investigation into a ProtectMyID alert email that linked to a scam domain and how identity protection alerts can become a delivery channel for phishing.

A 2021 GeForce NOW investigation into exposed catalogue metadata, more than 18,000 entries, internal apps, emulators, and unannounced game listings.

A translated 2017 in-flight entertainment security report about an Android kiosk escape and the disclosure effort that followed.

A translated 2012 Windows experiment about recursive shortcut folders, Explorer crashes, and the risks of treating interface glitches as file protection.