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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I’ve been experimenting with “Describe an Extension” on macOS 27’s Safari and it’s been pretty good so far. The two I’ve created: 1. An extension that hides the stupid overlays that show up on top of the last 15 seconds or so of a YouTube video. 2. An extension to fix something that broke on […]

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Niléane @mastodon.nileane.fr · 15/09/2026

since yesterday i've been stimming like this with the new macOS window controls

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Me when they release the iPhone Duo: “Silly iPhone developers have to revamp their apps UI in a couple weeks! What a bunch of chumps! Haha, fuck yeah!!! Yes!!” Me when they release the touchscreen Mac: “Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.”

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Siri recap at night: "Your wife repeatedly affirmed you should continue your current activity and reassured you that she would be arriving on time.” #AppleEvent

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Ooh boy, it's time for the "Buy Apple Watch or YOU'RE GONNA DIE!!” segment. #AppleEvent

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/1172… Not to pick on this particular post, but this is one of my biggest “What would Steve Jobs think?" pet peeves. When he was talking about a stylus, he was talking about REQUIRING A STYLUS JUST TO USE THE DAMN PHONE!! The Apple Pencil […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I hate with a passion any kind of reporting that describes problems among teenagers as caused by "screen time". It depicts it as some kind of flaw among young people who deliberately spend too much time on their phones. Call it for what it is: abusive practices by a handful of tech corporations […]

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

So it looks like John Ternus’ big first decision as CEO is whether to rename a fucking lake in Apple Maps.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

So I've been continuing to run 1Password 7 because when 1Password 8 came out, pretty much everyone I read said it was hot garbage, especially on the Mac. Is it any less hot garbage now than when it first came out? What have people's experiences been?

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Democrats: We need to find the left’s Joe Rogan! Hasan Piker: Sup. Democrats: no not like that #uspol

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

That's it, I'm leaving and going to Myspace.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Using Claude to write code to try to guard against prompt injection in my project and got flagged by Claude's safeguards against trying to write prompt injection. 😵‍💫

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Apparently you can actually die from having your nose too far up the president's ass. #uspol www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/1168… My favorite part of this graph is that it doesn't even bother including the Vision Pro price change. 😂

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fatcatsoftware/116… Not often I get to link to a clip from Spinal Tap in a product release blog post.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

My customers still refer to "iPhoto" instead of "Photos" all the time even though iPhoto hasn't existed for over a decade now. It's almost like giving your apps generic, unmemorable, unsearchable names like Photos, Notes, and Mail is… a bad idea? But I'm just an indie dev and not a marketing […]

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Image Playground LOL. I’ll have to run my benchmark of simply typing “shark” and seeing if it generates an Island of Dr. Moreau monstrosity with 17 fins.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Am I the only one wants the macOS California version names to DIAF? They’re confusing as hell, there’s no way to tell what order they come in aside from rote memorization, and they’ve caused me loads of support and documentation headaches over the years. Not to mention the California smug vibe […]

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Apple Developer app sends me a notification to watch a video about WWDC. Click the notification, opens the Developer to the generic "News and Updates" section. Click the newest item (I guess?), opens a one sentence description with a "Learn More" link. Click the link, it opens […]

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Recipe pet peeve: it gives an amount of an ingredient in the list at the top, but then buried in the recipe it says "Use half the garlic” or whatever. I never catch that and always end up dumping in all the garlic, and only realize it when I get to the later step in the recipe that says "Now use […]

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Looking for suggestions for a good macOS markdown viewer/editor. Don't need any fancy cloud sync or anything like that, just solid viewing and editing of local markdown files.

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

I hope the first thing John Ternus says is “now it’s my Tern” and then does finger guns

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

It’s time for our biennial box of Grape Nuts. Nothing quite beats the taste of whole grain wheat and shattered fillings.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

OK so I just discovered (with Claude's help) that apparently I've been running an Intel install of Homebrew since 2018. It happily migrated my install from my old Intel Mac to my first M1 Mac in 2021. It never tells you about this, or warns you, or anything. The only difference between the two […]

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Achievement unlocked: a bug in my code accidentally started something printing out on my printer. 😵‍💫

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

You know what's fun? When you have a unit test that uses PhotoKit, but your test causes photolibraryd to crash in the background. But then after it's crashed too many times, launchd decides that it needs to throttle respawning photolibraryd, so you either have to wait *checks logs* 1083 seconds […]

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

Came across this action description in the Shortcuts app today. 😂

Screenshot. Count: counts the number of items, characters, words, sentences, or lines passed as input. Note: this is just like the Count in Sesame Street, but instead of a vampire, it’s a Shortcuts action.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

I enjoy Claude Code's sycophancy sometimes.

Screenshot from my terminal window, me asking Claude: “Do you agree that SwiftUl List sucks ass?”

Claude’s response:

• Honestly, yes - for anything beyond a basic display list on macos, it's painful. Selection handling is janky, inline editing requires fighting the framework,
drag-to-reorder is fragile, and
vou end up lavering aesture hacks on top of each other just to get behavior that NSTableView gives you for free. The abstraction breaks down fast when you need standard AppKit table interactions.
It's fine on ios where table interactions are simpler, but on macos it feels like SwiftUI's List was designed without much consideration for how Mac users actually interact with lists.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is […]

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Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee.com · 04/03/2026

RE: toot.cat/@ceejbot/116169056742912847 This is a fucking great take on AI and how people involved in making software should think and act in this moment. #AI #LLMs #programming

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Updated to macOS 26.3 and now all my wallpapers from my photo library are sideways. 😕

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

Me finally trying Xcode 26.3 and having the Swift compiler immediately crash.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

New favorite Olympic athlete name: Maia Schwinghammer

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

What has two thumbs and has mono? 👍🤒👍 Took a good couple weeks of low grade fever to figure out what the hell was going on. Not fun, but at least I know what it is now, that makes it easier to deal with.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Seriously? They couldn't manage to code this up, I have to transfer each one manually? Really? Also for extra giggles the links they refer to are embedded within an attached PDF file. So you can't actually click them, you have to double click the PDF to open […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of email from Apple with instructions on moving your iTunes Wish List items over to Apple TV.

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

I’m looking at getting a Kobo reader. For those who have one, where do you like to buy books for it? (I already plan on hooking up Libby)

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

I came across a strange macOS Tahoe bug when working on an AppKit app with a table. I managed to find a workaround, but since I was unable to find any solutions online, I thought I would post my discoveries in case they could help others. The issue is that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Table view showing content rows scrolled into header

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115917… OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Claude Code is amazing at a lot of things, but oh my lord it simply cannot handle smart quotes inside Swift interpolated strings. For some reason that just sends its little robot brain into a tizzy.

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