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Michael Tsai - Blog - SimBuddy 1.0
Monday, December 26 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] SimBuddy 1.0 Craig Hockenberry : The locations show above, and many others, are available from Xcode using the xcrun simctl command. Every application on every device on every platform can be queried. But these lookups ar
Michael Tsai - Blog - Gatekeeper’s Achilles Heel
Monday, December 26 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Gatekeeper’s Achilles Heel Jonathan Bar Or : Considering symbolic links are preserved in archives and aren’t assigned with quarantine attributes—we looked for a mechanism that could persist different kinds of metadata ove
Michael Tsai - Blog - Gitea Actions Preview
Monday, December 26 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Gitea Actions Preview xinyu : The aim of Gitea actions is to bring closer integration between Gitea and existing CI/CD systems. Another goal is to expose a unified management inteface for standalone runners to reduce the ad
Michael Tsai - Blog - Tesla Wireless Charging Platform
Monday, December 26 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Tesla Wireless Charging Platform Juli Clover : Tesla today announced the launch of the Tesla Wireless Charging Platform , a $300 wireless charger that is able to charge up to three Qi devices at one time. The concept i
Michael Tsai - Blog - Fixing the “Failed to Enable Personal Hotspot” Error
Thursday, December 22 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Fixing the “Failed to Enable Personal Hotspot” Error Thomas Tempelmann : Some of my older Macs running High Sierra or Mojave were unable to join the Personal Hotspot of one or even two of my iPhones. […] There is a file c
Michael Tsai - Blog - French Court Fines Apple Over Abusive App Store Practices
Thursday, December 22 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] French Court Fines Apple Over Abusive App Store Practices Reuters (via MacRumors ): The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros ($1.06 million) for imposing abusive commercial
Michael Tsai - Blog - Google Moves Maps to google.com
Thursday, December 22 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Google Moves Maps to google.com Garrit Franke : I opened Google Maps again, and noticed that maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps . This implies that the permissions I give to Google Maps now apply to all
Michael Tsai - Blog - Activating Automatic Backtrack in watchOS 9
Friday, December 23 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Activating Automatic Backtrack in watchOS 9 David Smith : The trick was knowing that you have to press that bottom right button in order to discover if an automatic route is being tracked. I imagine this ambiguity is co
Michael Tsai - Blog - 30 Years of PCalc
Friday, December 23 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] 30 Years of PCalc James Thomson ( Mastodon ): At around the same time, we’d started coding using THINK Pascal, and I had begun to explore the Macintosh programming APIs in my own time. […] The Pascal core mathematics code
Michael Tsai - Blog - Belkin iPhone Mount With MagSafe for Mac Desktops and Displays
Friday, December 23 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Belkin iPhone Mount With MagSafe for Mac Desktops and Displays Jason Snell : Now there’s the Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Desktops and Displays, a $40 adapter for other displays. […] I have very few res
Michael Tsai - Blog - Problems With Instagram and Flickr Sites on iPad
Thursday, December 22 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Problems With Instagram and Flickr Sites on iPad Juli Clover : As of iPadOS 16, some Instagram users who access the iPhone version of the app on their iPad have noticed that it’s not working properly on the iPad’s di
Michael Tsai - Blog - LastPass Breach
Friday, December 23 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] LastPass Breach Dan Goodin : LastPass, one of the leading password managers, said that hackers obtained a wealth of personal information belonging to its customers as well as encrypted and cryptographically hashed passwords
Michael Tsai - Blog - Ivory
Monday, December 19 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Ivory Tapbots : Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory, is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. T
Michael Tsai - Blog - Disabling AWDL to Work Around Ventura Wi-Fi Issues
Monday, December 19 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Disabling AWDL to Work Around Ventura Wi-Fi Issues Hamza Malik (via Felix Krause , Hacker News ): Meter is currently tracking an issue that is affecting devices on macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura with M1/M2 Macbooks a
Michael Tsai - Blog - Epic Settles With FTC Over COPPA Complaint
Monday, December 19 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Epic Settles With FTC Over COPPA Complaint FTC ( complaint PDF , Hacker News ): The Federal Trade Commission has secured agreements requiring Epic Games, Inc., creator of the popular video game Fortnite, to pay a total of
Michael Tsai - Blog - John Carmack Is Leaving Meta
Monday, December 19 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] John Carmack Is Leaving Meta John Carmack ( Hacker News ): Quest 2 is almost exactly what I wanted to see from the beginning – mobile hardware, inside out tracking, optional PC streaming, 4k (ish) screen, cost effective.
Michael Tsai - Blog - SuperDuper 3.7.1
Friday, December 16 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] SuperDuper 3.7.1 Dave Nanian : In Ventura, on some systems, we’ve seen some cases where, post-replication (“Erase, then copy” in Big Sur and later), the destination volumes wouldn’t always re-mount. Sometimes an error would
Michael Tsai - Blog - Publishing an RSS Feed to Mastodon
Friday, December 16 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Publishing an RSS Feed to Mastodon Jesse Squires : If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve likely noticed that my blog posts are automatically tweeted for me. There are multiple services you can use to do this, like Zapier
Michael Tsai - Blog - UNAlertStyle Restricted
Friday, December 16 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] UNAlertStyle Restricted Patrick Wardle : If a tool notifies the user via macOS’s notification center the style can no longer be programmatically set to alert …only banner . Banners are automatically dismissed which break
Michael Tsai - Blog - Sunsetting AppCode
Friday, December 16 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Sunsetting AppCode Anastasia Kazakova ( Hacker News ): Since the release of AppCode 1.0 11 years ago, we’ve been applying our expertise to make coding for iOS/macOS more enjoyable. We’ve had many accomplishments, includi
Michael Tsai - Blog - C xor C++ Programming
Friday, December 16 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] C xor C++ Programming Aaron Ballman (PDF via John Regehr , Steve Canon ): It is not uncommon to hear about C/C++ programming as a shorthand for “C and C++” programming. This implies that C and C++ are similar, but distin
Michael Tsai - Blog - Swift Pitch: Observation
Friday, December 16 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Swift Pitch: Observation Philippe Hausler : There are already a few mechanisms for observation in Swift. Some of these include Key Value Observing (KVO), or ObservableObject ; but those are relegated to in the case of KVO
Michael Tsai - Blog - Proton Drive
Friday, December 16 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Proton Drive Andy Yen : Proton Drive’s mobile apps give you the freedom to access your files and folders from anywhere, anytime. You can upload your files and photos to Proton Drive using your mobile app and access them e
Michael Tsai - Blog - Blog Updates (Late 2022)
Monday, December 12 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Blog Updates (Late 2022) Over the last month or two I’ve made several improvements to this blog: The CSS now adapts the colors for Dark Mode. I’ve adjusted the WordPress caching so that pages should load much faster. No
Michael Tsai - Blog - Xcode 14.2
Wednesday, December 14 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Xcode 14.2 Apple ( download , command-line tools , additional tools ): Xcode 14.2 includes Swift 5.7 and SDKs for iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.1, watchOS 9.1, and macOS Ventura 13.1. The Xcode 14.2 release support
Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Considering Dropping WebKit Requirement
Wednesday, December 14 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Apple Considering Dropping WebKit Requirement Joe Rossignol ( Hacker News , Reddit ): As part of a larger story about Apple’s plans to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone and iPad in EU countries, Bloomberg ’
Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Working on Sideloading for Europe
Wednesday, December 14 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Apple Working on Sideloading for Europe Juli Clover ( Hacker News , Ars Technica , Slashdot ): Apple is planning to allow for alternate app stores on iPhones and iPads ahead of European legislation that will require
Michael Tsai - Blog - Reddit Photo Album Overflows Int32
Wednesday, December 14 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Reddit Photo Album Overflows Int32 wejustcallitfood (via Hacker News ): Congratulations to our -2,147,483,648 post! Bug Integer Overflow Reddit Web Comments Stay up-to-date by subscribing to th
Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2
Tuesday, December 13 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 Juli Clover ( security , developer ): Today’s iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 updates bring several notable features to iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, including the Freeform app, which is a sort of digital whi
Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Pay Expiration Dates
Tuesday, December 13 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Apple Pay Expiration Dates Adam Engst : Apple Pay’s tokenization process prevents Stripe, our payment processor, from knowing the expiration date for the actual card. Instead, Stripe—and the Paid Memberships Pro plug-in
Michael Tsai - Blog - FTC Sues Microsoft to Block Activision Blizzard Purchase
Monday, December 12 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] FTC Sues Microsoft to Block Activision Blizzard Purchase Federal Trade Commission (via Hacker News ): The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block technology giant Microsoft Corp. from acquiring leading video game dev
Michael Tsai - Blog - CleanShot X 4.5
Monday, December 12 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] CleanShot X 4.5 MTW (via Ryan Jones ): ✨ Introducing Background Tool in Annotate - easily create beautiful social media posts that stand out from others 🎨 Crop Tool will now recognize background color - automaticall
Michael Tsai - Blog - Swift Pitch: Predicates
Tuesday, December 13 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Swift Pitch: Predicates Jeremy Schonfeld : We propose creating a new value type, Predicate , as part of the FoundationEssentials package, that addresses these problems. These new constructions of predicates will be expr
Michael Tsai - Blog - The Swifty Future of Foundation
Monday, December 12 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] The Swifty Future of Foundation Tony Parker ( tweet ): The swift-corelibs-foundation project helped launch the open source Swift version of Foundation in 2016, wrapping a Swift layer around the preexisting, open source
Michael Tsai - Blog - The Verse Programming Language
Tuesday, December 13 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] The Verse Programming Language Simon Peyton Jones (via Ian Kettlewell , Hacker News , slides ): Since joining Epic Games in late 2021, I have been involved in the design and development of Verse, a new, declarative pro
Michael Tsai - Blog - Capture One Encourages Subscriptions
Tuesday, December 6 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Capture One Encourages Subscriptions Jack Williams : After 1st February 2023, new perpetual license purchases will not receive any feature updates (16.x) This means that any updates containing new features and functiona
Michael Tsai - Blog - MarsEdit 5
Wednesday, December 7 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] MarsEdit 5 Daniel Jalkut ( tweet ): MarsEdit 5 features a beautiful new icon, a “Microposting” feature for streamlined short-form blogging, enhanced plain-text editing with built-in Markdown syntax highlighting, a comp
Michael Tsai - Blog - Get Rid of the Apple Pay Setup Badge
Tuesday, December 6 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Get Rid of the Apple Pay Setup Badge Adam Engst : However, if you’re like me and haven’t set up Apple Pay on your iPad, you might be bothered by the way iPadOS badges the Settings app and constantly reminds you to finish
Michael Tsai - Blog - Security Keys for Apple ID
Wednesday, December 7 , 2022 [ Tweets ] [ Favorites ] Security Keys for Apple ID Apple ( MacRumors ): Apple introduced two-factor authentication for Apple ID in 2015. Today, with more than 95 percent of active iCloud accounts using this protection, it is the most widely u