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The psychology of fixing bugs, Part 2: Google

The psychology of fixing bugs

Apple wants a sysdiagnose for a feature request

A critique of philosophical objectivity

iOS simulator Files app broken by symlink

Academic philosophy: my quixotic quest

icloud.com email users can send but not receive malicious links

Tim Cook vs. Steve Jobs

Book review: Apple in China by Patrick McGee

Some third-party Mac apps I use

Liquid Crass

Apple in China, Ripoff in Amazon

App Store search is not a user feature

Safari web app strange connection behavior

macOS Tahoe forces all app icons into iOS squircles

Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?

Insane web design on apple dot com

Stop The Mac App Store minor update

Apple Turntable

Apple is not blocking Epic Games from updating Fortnite in the European Union

A look at a Mac App Store top grosser

Making my app worse because of macOS privacy protections

Free with In-App Purchase is a sham

Why some Mac apps launch slowly: A follow-up

Google Chrome 136 automatically upgrades your accounts to use passkeys

Gatekeeper change in macOS 15.4

The weirdest HTML feature (or bug?): display your head

App Store Curation

UIApplication delegate deprecation coming in iOS 19 SDK

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 3

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2

Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections?

NSURLComponents changed in macOS 15.4

Apple Software Update dark pattern

For sale: 16-inch M1 MacBook Pro with new battery

Why are macOS security updates re-running the Setup Assistant?

iCloud remotely triggers iMessage sign-in and sync

Xcode constantly phones home

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia

Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence

How Safari search engine extensions work

Apple Mail app bugs finally pushed me to MailMate

YouTube problem in macOS Safari

Image Creation Tools Are Here

Little Snitch feature nobody knows about

New secure note on macOS Sequoia

Apple Passwords is hostile to backups

macOS Sequoia iCloud Photos configuration profile bug

Help? Reset AirDrop identity hash

Technology is never a substitute for consent

The internet is full of experts

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

Deep dive into a macOS default web browser bug

How Safari 18.2 https upgrade works

How Safari (insanely) displays app extension icons

Apple continues to dismiss bug reports

Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them

Apple rejected my Vision Pro app update

How Safari can improve extensions: Redux

Mac App Store receipt validation problem on Sequoia

Safari 18 randomly appearing sidebar

More annoying macOS 15 Sequoia prompts: Bluetooth

Stop macOS 15 Sequoia monthly screen recording prompts

Can't change security policy or disable SIP with macOS 15 Sequoia

Passkey privacy issues

Safari missing feature: auto-clear website data

macOS firewall slows DNS queries

How I git push from my laptop to my website

New macOS bug: Updates Available notification with no updates

Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out

Has Apple underpaid App Store developers AGAIN?

Smart App Banners don't appear in private browsing

Fix Safari Private Window Empty Page

Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews

Amazon Web Services dark patterns

Safari bookmarklet permissions

Advanced tracking and fingerprinting protection breaks Safari extensions

Stop iCloud Keychain with a profile

WWDC Boycott of Feedback Assistant

macOS Sonoma Mail bug: spam bypasses Block All Remote Content

Follow-up on developer payments for App Store bundle purchases

Apple silicon MacBook Pro batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third parties

Verify Your Recovery Key?

macOS Sonoma bug: Can't create disk image containing locked file

macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions

Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma silently enables iCloud Keychain

Apple started cheating me out of App Store bundle purchases

YouTube video quality bug in iOS Safari

Show passwords as they're typed in Terminal

Funny story of how I recovered the password of an encrypted Mac disk image

Stop The Mac App Store improved for Sonoma and Ventura

Safari Search Settings spacing

Mac app launches slowed by malware scan

How to stop Upgrade to macOS Sonoma notifications

The HTML dialog element API is a mess

Abandonware featured in iOS App Store

Beware of App Store app bundles

How Safari can improve extensions

StopTheMadness Pro postmortem: crApp Store still crappy

iOS 17 App Store screenshots caveat

iOS 17.2 shows the wrong Safari extension icons

macOS Sonoma increases NSControl font size

Disabled Safari extensions are not fully disabled, and other problems

NSFileManager error messages lie

The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mac App Store receipt validation revisited

Feedback Assistant boycott web page and participants list

Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant

This Feedback will no longer be monitored, and incoming messages will not be reviewed

Safari share menu now violates privacy

Why I disabled advanced tracking and fingerprinting protection in Safari

Safari 17 hidden feature: Always allow this website to open an app

How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console

LaunchServices and Spotlight

Xcode 15 logs nil as an empty string, not (null)

Your Mastodon archive omits DMs sent to you

Mastodon instance admin deleted all of our DMs after 15 days

How did Apple get all of my email addresses?

Mysterious disappearing Apple ID 2FA codes

The most wonderful new hidden feature in iOS 17 and macOS 14

Another Google Search bug in iOS Safari

Safari Un-Intelligent Tracking Prevention: Data loss by design

Threads.net can go to hell

macOS App Management vulnerability illustrated

macOS 0day: App Management

How do I report a Google Search bug?

Follow-up to Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site

Reflections on my 7th Twitter anniversary

Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site

My thoughts on Apple Vision Pro

Little Snitch "denied" connections leak your IP address: Developer response

Safari 17 Link Tracking Protection Details

macOS Sonoma sandbox security

macOS: Attribute Not Found?

Passkeys: A loss of user control?

Follow-up to Little Snitch "denied" connections leak your IP address

Little Snitch "denied" connections leak your IP address

What Apple doesn't get about Feedback

Mac Messages: Can't I show my email address?

Race to the bottom: App Store peer benchmarks

I do want to go back to social media

Ventura or Vista? Cancel or Allow in Mac Preview app

App Store Review continues to delay updates for no reason

Mastodon postmortem

Mastodon instance mstdn.plus with over 4K users suddenly broke

NSURLSession connection leak

Universal Links Revisited

Bing and DuckDuckGo removed my business web site AGAIN

The App Store does not protect consumers

App Store Connect is the worst web site ever made, Part 4: Works as currently designed

I posted my Safari extension issues on GitHub. Post yours too!

How to restore the Preferences menu item to macOS Ventura, Part 2

macOS removes and reinstalls Rosetta after every update

Mac OS X analogue for Node.js?

macOS Monterey still vulnerable to CVE-2022-40303

Hide System Preferences Dock badge

I don't want to go back to social media

App Store Connect is the worst web site ever made, Part 3

App Store Connect just got worse. But I made it better.

I'm starting a company blog and Slack

Blogging without a blogging engine

A list of Apple-related RSS feeds

How to regenerate Xcode managed provisioning profiles

How macOS Ventura App Management works and doesn't work

Mac indie dev alliance

Works as currently designed

Check your App IDs for unused capabilities

Every unsandboxed app has Full Disk Access if Terminal does

iOS 16 text view breakage

How to restore the Preferences menu item to macOS Ventura

Web pages can overwrite your system clipboard without your knowledge

Safari updates reset your Experimental Features preferences

Extensions API broken in Mac Safari

iOS dictation is dickish

Why macOS Ventura Share menu is bad

Twitter crypto spam bots copy real tweets to appear real

Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on purpose

NSURL is relatively bad

More disappearing Safari extensions

Thoughts on Swift and Objective-C

macOS Monterey Dock watches /Users/Shared/

macOS Monterey unannounced security misfeature

Link Unshortener enhancements

Stop Safari from switching your Twitter timeline

Bing and DuckDuckGo removed my business web site

Apple reneged on OCSP privacy

Why Ventura System Settings is bad, Part 2

Why Ventura System Settings is bad

Apple's director of App Review emailed me

My bug fix update is stuck in App Store review

On App Store pricing inflexibility

Safari <img> solving the wrong problem

The App Store Improvements process makes no sense

Google Chrome 101 removed Fill passwords on account selection

How do I backup my new MacBook Pro?

Impressions of the new MacBook Pro

Why is /AppleInternal factory installed on new Macs?

Mac Pro historical perspective

App Store Connect is the worst web site ever made

Do you want me to leave the Apple ecosystem?

Misinformation from… Stephen Fry?

How to make a home page bookmark to Twitter in Mobile Safari

Siri may phone home with Ask Siri disabled

iOS 15.2 broke Safari extension preferences storage

You always had the power to PiP on YouTube and everywhere

Safari bug: background tabs reactivate

Safari forgets your history

DNSServiceNATPortMappingCreate was quietly killed in macOS Monterey

Mass confusion and dislike over Safari extension icon tinting

Apple vandalized my icon in the latest betas

Did iOS 15 kill Google AMP?

StopTheScript

The Safari extension blues

Where are the Safari extensions in the iOS App Store?

Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

Why Xcode tools are slow after reboot

The color purple

Dark menu bar and Dock on Big Sur

Disappearing Safari extensions

Mac OS update failed for the first time in 19 years

Twitter locked my account (again) for an obvious joke

Stop the Medium

Safari extension development: icons

iOS Safari extensions bug

StopTheMadness for iOS

Disable Safari Preload Top Hit

Mac trustd high CPU

Porting your Chrome extension to Safari

StopTheMadness: Hovering near greatness

Mac App Store review folly

NSURL is a bad host

Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file

How to stop Mac App Store notifications

Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections

TRY THE NEW SAFARI

Distributing Mac apps without notarization

New app: Default web browser

How to use multiple search engines in Safari

Mac App Store updates failing on Mojave, Part 2

Xcode code signing madness

Deleting DerivedData the right way

New app: Stop The Mac App Store

How to change your default web browser on Big Sur

Mac App Store updates failing on Mojave

Undocumented NSShadow change on Catalina

Disclosure: Yet another macOS privacy protections bypass

Some BS AppKit notes

Safari bugs me

Apple Developer ID OCSP

Developer ID certificate revocation

Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

Stop animated GIFs in Safari

Can't you just right click? Yes, with a workflow.

macOS Containers and defaults

Safari web extension bug

Stop Facebook click tracking

Your Honor, what about the Mac?

Can't you just right click?

App Store is neither console nor retail but jukebox

News+ privacy on Big Sur

PSA if you ever ran my SafariPrivacyTest sample app

Stop the Swift 2.0

App Store Connect and StopTheMadness

Stop the Swift

macOS Recovery: Bug or Feature?

Introducing the free Safari extension FindTheMadness

Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass

Better disassembly on macOS Big Sur

Objective-C disassembly on macOS Big Sur

Extract the system libraries on macOS Big Sur

Stop DuckDuckGo clickjacking

StopTheMadness can now stop mouse tracking

Logging https requests and responses of Apple system processes

Software Update changes in the latest macOS releases

The Mystery of the Phantom App Updates, Part 2

Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables

Link Unshortener for iOS

__kindof useful?

Stop the Daring Fireball?

Stop 'Open in the Twitter app' in Safari Catalina

Stop Gmail click tracking

Reflections on the Mac sandbox escape

Mac sandbox escape

NSFormatter allows invalid values

Working without a nib, Part 12: NSWindow memory management

Bad Safari extensions bug with context menus

Introducing Link Unshortener

Xcode indexing tip

Resources for learning Objective-C and AppKit

Underpass is back (though it never left)

Safari bug: can't enable extensions on Catalina

Safari no longer runs disabled extensions

Mac App Store in a nutshell

PayPal Me

Resolve rip-relative addresses from otool

The decimation of Safari extensions

StopTheMadness for Mac adds Chrome, Edge, and Brave!

Safari runs disabled extensions

Swift fatalError is a fatal error

Questions about the Apple Security Bounty

The security of Safari extensions

How to stop Safari for Mac disk caching

Revisited: The true and false security benefits of Mac app notarization

Undocumented Catalina file access change

Hardened Runtime and XPC Services

NSAssert considered harmless

Hardened Runtime and Sandboxing Revisited

Disclosure: macOS privacy protections bypass

What happened to the Mac bug bounty program?

The Safari Extensions Gallery is no longer available

Important Information Regarding the Safari Extensions Gallery

A problem worse than Zoom

Stop Safari from autosubmitting login forms

Private browsing in Safari with StopTheMadness

Catalina app compatibility

My Twitter account has been locked for a third time

We believe that what’s in our store says a lot about who we are

Introducing StopTheNews

StopTheMadness First Anniversary

Google Chrome can no longer disable hyperlink auditing

The true and false security benefits of Mac app notarization

More madness stopped: beacons

The madness stopped: anchor ping

Postmortem: iTunes Affiliate for apps

Some thoughts on anchor ping

Safari link tracking can no longer be disabled

NetService NutHouse

My Twitter account has been locked again

Finally credit from Apple Product Security

Spying on Safari in Mojave

Still no credit from Apple Product Security

Stop Google Search Results Tracking

StopTheMadness for Firefox

The Mac App Store Safari Extensions Experience

Text view adventures, Part 4

Text view adventures, Part 3

Mac app notarization and customer privacy

Text view adventures, Part 2

Text view adventures, Part 1

Hardened Runtime and Sandboxing

macOS 10.14.1 Privacy: What's fixed and what's not

Mac App Store Bundles

Rickroll Resurrected

Mac Mail with Google 2-step and Yubico

Another hole in Mojave privacy protection

No cookie for you!

Prevent App Nap Programmatically

Race to Under the Bottom

Stop The Mad Icon

Ode to a MacBook Pro

NSOnState is deprecated

Debugging on Mojave

App Translocation and Safari App Extensions

My Twitter account has been locked

Stop The Madness

A Record 13 Weeks

A holiday gift

Key difference between Dictionary and NSDictionary

The Mystery of the Phantom App Updates

Working without a nib, Part 11: Why?

Local variables are still free, in Swift

Free as in app

NSStringEncoding Considered Harmful

Go all in with xcconfig

NSNotificationCenter is thread-safe NOT NOT

Working without a nib, Part 10: Mac Main Menu

I was on a podcast

Porting Objective-C to Swift

Problems with Objective-C annotations

Not just the Mac Pro

Twitter only mutes 100 keywords

Autoresizing UITextView

Whither Swift?

Follow-up on a Record 14 Weeks

Slow Week?

A Record 14 Weeks

70 Cents Put Me on the Mac App Store Charts

Working without a nib, Part 9: Shipping without a nib

Inaugurating Underpass

Preannouncement

Textured Tabbed Windows

We don't need no stinking badges

Working without a nib, Part 8: The nib awakens

Translocate Relocated

Distributing Outside the Mac App Store

Detect App Translocation Without the 10.12 SDK

What's Wrong With Twitter

SecTransformExecuteAsync Considered Confusing

The OpenSSL Blues

Checking for El Capitan

Validate Project Settings: Never!

Lack of Communication

Breaking the resource rules

NSNotificationCenter is thread-safe NOT

Cancel WWDC

Dispatch Queues and Run Loop Modes

Mark Not All as Read

Winter is Coming

The Definitive Guide to Installing Xcode 3 on Mountain Lion (Without Kernel Panics)

SDK vs. Deployment Target