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Brian Webster

@bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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I’m an indie macOS developer creating apps such as PowerPhotos and PlistEdit Pro. #Apple #Mac #Cocoa #Swift #SwiftUI 🌉 bridged from mastodon.social/@bwebster on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@eschaton congrats / sorry that happened to u
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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Evergreen bulletin.
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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 · 15/09/2026
@nileane OK I guess I'm not doing anything else for the rest of the day now.
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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
These Weekend at Bernie's sequels just keep getting worse. #uspol apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-…
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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 · 02/09/2026
@designatednerd Bad
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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
I hope the leopards enjoy his face. www.tmz.com/2026/08/28/milo-yiannop… #uspol
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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 · 26/08/2026
@designatednerd
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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
OK now I think the AI is just trolling me.
A ranked list of injection prompt technique in order of effectiveness, each with an assigned letter. The letter labels are highlighted with a big red circle and spell out “CHONK FED”.
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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 · 07/08/2026
@stroughtonsmith OK it's weirder than I first thought. It looks like there's no way to manually create a group, but once Safari creates a group via its AI stuff, then you can drag arbitrary tabs in and out of the groups, reorder the groups among the other tabs, etc.
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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
@stroughtonsmith Safari in macOS 27 adds grouping in the tab bar (as opposed to the existing "Tab Groups”) along these lines. It can also auto group by category if you want.
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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
We need a 25th amendment for congress. #uspol
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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 · 26/06/2026
@designatednerd Muni stair rails? Probably best to set your hands on fire, just to be safe.
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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 · 18/06/2026
@stroughtonsmith But not enough of your money. 🤑
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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
Current shark benchmark for comparison.
I can’t even describe this shark monstrosity.
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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
Damn it Craig.
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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 · 06/06/2026
@grammargirl @Cdespinosa I propose the term “botsplaining”
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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 · 26/05/2026
@designatednerd Well I'm sure in 1985 you can buy plutonium in any corner drug store!
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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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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
RE: flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116483… Is the passport still valid if you draw a little Hitler mustache on him? #uspol
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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
Anyone know who this is? 😮
A parked gray Tesla with a license plate reading “Xcode”
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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
@stroughtonsmith Who needs strategy when you have 81 Copilots instead! 🤪 teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/3…
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How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one
A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things. Apps, features, platforms, a keyboard key, an entire category of laptops - and a tool for building more Copilots. All named ‘Copilot’. I went looking for the full list. No single source had all of them. Not even Microsoft’s own website or documentation. So I pieced it together from product pages, launch announcements, and marketing materials. The visualisation below maps every one, grouped by category, with lines showing how they connect. It’s interactive - click around. Try to find a pattern. I couldn’t. - - Visualisation created with Flourish | Image download ---|---
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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 · 20/04/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/1164047… This entire thread is amazing 🍿
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Brian Webster @bwebster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efpL1E_fI3E Somehow, Dark Helmet returned
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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
I only noticed because I happened to see that it took Claude a bunch of tries to run xcodebuild. That was because arm64 wasn't showing as a destination, so it had to build as x86. That's because Claude itself runs on Node. And Node was installed by Homebrew. So Node was running as x86. So […]
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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
This comic seems relevant today. 😬 hijinksensue.com/comic/dare-all-the…
A comic titled “Dare All The Things”. A guy watches the Mars rover landing from his couch. It succeeds, and he exclaims “Woohoo! Touchdown! We did it!” Then he pauses, and says “Oh… I *just* got sports.”
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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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