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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

They say you can’t un-read a book Indigo: “hold my magic scroll”

Screenshot of a floating glass bubble that says “↑ Scroll to Unread”

Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Just noticed that every time I right-click a cell in Numbers, there’s an “Add To Playground” menu item now. So glad that I can quickly turn my business expenses spreadsheet into whatever the hell this is

Screenshot of Apple’s Image Playground with 4 inputs: “08/2026”, “09/2026”, “10/2026”, “11/2026”. The resulting image is something resembling an outdoor panel showing “590%”, or perhaps “520%”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@siracusa Every time you mentioned “Dock materials”, my mind kept wandering back to this…

Book cover of His Dark Materials presented as an app icon, labeled His Dock Materials

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

On macOS 27: I find this "Ask Siri" field† on top of nearly every context menu very invasive and distracting. On the bright side, though, it works for searching the menu, much better than what menus usually do when you type. † Presumably it’s a text field, but […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

UNIQLO used to have apps named CALENDAR and UNIQLOCK that raised more questions than answers. They’re no longer visible in the App Store, but still downloadable from the list of past purchases if you happened to have them. CALENDAR had several tilt-shift videos […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Early experience: it works, but my existing passwords don’t show up in the list. I have to pick “1Password…” in the menu. However, entries created after enabling do appear and log in with just a fingerprint tap, beautifully. Might work after reboot? Will test […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of System Settings on macOS, AutoFill & Passwords. 1Password is listed as an AutoFill option and enabled, supporting “Passkeys, passwords, and codes”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

OH MY. Quite the detail to forget to mention in the changelog, #1Password!

Title: “1Password for Mac 8.12.32”
Date: August 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
A toggle called “View changes since original” is turned on.

Highlighted in green:
• You can now use 1Password as a macOS AutoFill provider to natively fill and save credentials in Safari and other apps.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

…huh. A couple months ago I tried doing something using GitHub Copilot, and I pasted an image on the chat window. Tuns out this session is still stored as a 15 MB file on my machine (~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/emptyWindowChatSessions) […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of a JSON file, with a JSON object where the keys are numbers and values are numbers between 0 and 255

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

@siracusa Re: limiting charge to 80%, I fully agree. I’ve been using coconutBattery for several years to track battery health over many MacBooks, and the app’s statistics shows most of them following others’ average fairly closely. Then around 2022 I started […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Line chart with two somewhat erratic lines plotted, trending downwards. The X axis shows number of cycles, and the Y axis shows battery capacity as a percentage. After 110 cycles, the line labeled “Average for MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2023)”, reaches 90.8%; the line labeled “Your Battery” sits at 95.4%.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Just noticed a “Summarize” option in Kagi results, and was curious how it would summarize an entire Reddit discussion. It seems the internal prompt asks for ten major insights, and it dutifully provided ten different ways to say the content of the page failed to load

• The provided document text is empty, preventing the extraction of any specific insights or content.
• No context, themes, or narrative details were available for analysis from the source.
• The lack of input text results in an inability to form a summary or identify major takeaways.
• A Reddit post format was specified, yet no accompanying content was provided to evaluate.
• Due to the absence of text, no subject matter could be identified or discussed.
• The instruction to provide ten major insights cannot be fulfilled without source material.
• No characters, arguments, or topics were present to synthesize into a coherent summary.
• The request to refer to the document by name could not be executed as no title or specific document identification was included.
• All constraints regarding tone and format are acknowledged, but the content requirement remains unmet.
• Without input data, the summarization process cannot generate an empty set of bullet points.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I was really surprised a couple years ago when I found that SF Symbols do not have a standardized width. Symbol fonts typically make every character square, as it simplifies alignment and uniformity. This is biting Apple HARD in the Liquid Glass era. Once you […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@dluz/1149938187704264… My least favorite aspect of macOS 27 so far: they brought iOS’s visual feedback when any Liquid Glass bubble is pressed, even if the targeted element is disabled. Worse: it’s actually the entire group that […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

TIM COOK HATES THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK: you don’t need to buy new hardware. Just install Sequoia or Tahoe on your Magic Keyboard and it’ll get a USB-C port

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@anilineapps Hi, just spotted two odd things about this post: pony.social/@thephd/116902223743191… - Code appears in a single line on Indigo, whereas others correctly render it as multiple lines - When viewing the post as a thread (but not in the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of a Mastodon post by thephd on Indigo with rendering issues on a code block

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

@bjango Hi, I just got an M5 Pro, and I see a minor issue with the CPU cores menu bar item: - When configured to “Display: Super & Performance Cores”, it correctly shows 18 cores, but they are all painted as if they were P-cores; - When configured to “Display […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of iStat Menus settings screen, configuring a CPU Cores item. The item is configured to display Super & Performance Cores, but all cores are colored as Performance Cores.

Screenshot of iStat Menus settings screen, configuring a CPU Cores item. The item is configured to display Super Cores, but it shows 12 bars in a machine that only has 6 of such cores. The bars are also blue, when they were supposed to be pink.

Screenshot of iStat Menus settings screen, configuring a CPU Cores item. The item is configured to display Performance Cores, but the item is empty, with no bars inside.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

It’s so depressing that it kinda wraps around to hilarious how the modern web thoroughly defeats Peek

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I’d like to congratulate Best Buy for their use of extreme precision calipers when measuring their products. At this point though you might need to say the room temperature and pressure when the measurement was made

Dimensions:

Product Height: 2.3976378 inches
Product Length: 1.7283465 inches
Product Width: 1.5354331 inches
Product Weight: 0.3951 pounds

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Did you know? The “#” symbol is comprised of an H at the top, standing for Hashtag, and two T’s at the bottom, for Trending Topics

A “pound” sign with its components highlighted in different colors. The top two thirds show a letter H in blue, the bottom left shows a letter T in lighter green, and the bottom right shows a letter T in darker green.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Truly awful example of lensing. Serves no purpose besides looking cool. Rectangular selection in images often suffers from being hard to tell whether you’ve accurately captured the desired region or you’re off by one or two pixels in either direction, and Apple managed to make this ten times worse.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Somehow I had never noticed that Mastodon’s logo depicts a certain prehistoric animal

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

TIL Safari’s address bar escapes certain IPA symbols but never escapes combining diacritical marks, leading to innovations in the hexadecimal system

Screenshot of an address bar showing “/search?q=%C9%9B̃”, with a tilde on top of a B that is part of a hexadecimal escape sequence

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

I’ve only skimmed the Cloud Security Alliance’s paper, but I think they want me to play D&D?

Heavily blurred text. The title of the section is recognizable as “Prepare to respond to more incidents.” On the paragraph, the only parts with focus say “run tabletop exercises … and have playbooks in place”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Found what Ternus’ first act will be

Cropped transcription that reads:

“…Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board of directors, and John Turnis, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering…”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

I’m always amused at SpeechAnalyzer’s choices for representing numbers and capitalization. Hopefully the increased exposure by podcast apps will pressure Apple to iterate quickly, rather than leaving it as-is for years!

Transcription that reads:

“So millionaire had a little more meaning back then.
I did the math, a $1000000 in 1996 is almost
exactly $2 million.”

In a single sentence, “million dollars” was transcribed as a dollar sign followed by a one and six zeros, without grouping, making it very hard to read, while “two million dollars” was transcribed as a dollar sign followed by a two and the word “million” spelled out.

Excerpt that reads:
“[…] name of that book was Unholy Spring.
Unholy spring.
Unholy Spring.
That's right.”

The first and third mentions of Unholy Spring are fully capitalized, as a proper noun; the middle one is not, as if an adjective and a noun.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

I guess I can install Safari Technology Preview 239 and 240 simultaneously?

Cropped screenshot of macOS update selection. Safari Technology Preview version 239 and Safari Technology Preview version 240 are both available and selected.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Is this the concentricity they keep talking about?

Cropped screenshot of an Apple newsroom page, showing a rounded dickbar badgering to send notifications, and a promotional render of new iPhones. When the page is scrolled to the right position, the center points of the curvatures for the dickbar and the bottom of the leftmost iPhone line up perfectly.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Well, #Bitwarden, to claim “$1.65 / Monthly” (questionable grammar to boot) and then when you click it the only option is “US$19.80 USD / year” (is anyone proofreading this!?) isn’t exactly a great start. “Monthly” has a meaning; this is just deceiving. Hell […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

GitHub’s web interface avoids diffs if they have more than a few hundred lines, but to their credit they will heroically try to render a 242-thousand–character single line

Screenshot of a file from a repository being displayed on GitHub’s website. The description of the file contents says “1 lines (1 loc) · 237 KB”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

I still think they should increase the contrast on foreground of toolbar buttons, though. That Save button looks like it’s disabled.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Scrolling through files in a Save sheet, the files no longer randomly disappear while going under the navigation bar.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Well, it is certainly not any smaller than the other NaNs

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

Leave it to Apple to mangle their own process names this badly. (Everyone knows the proper mangling is “ServiÃ§o de MÃ¡quina Virtual”)

Cropped screenshot of macOS Process Manager in Portuguese, with a process named “Servi√ßo de M√°quina Virtual do ap…”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

I had completely missed that iOS now allows you to choose a different translation app! Now I can more easily use Google’s superior translation services.

Screenshot of a translation sheet on top of a Wikipedia article. The selected text that was sent for translation is “Soy milk”. The translator detected the source language as Spanish, and translated the term to French as “Je suis du lait”.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

I barely use Google Search these days, but when I do, I’m yet to have a single positive interaction with their AI summaries. In the best case it’s just a verbose equivalent to their old page excerpts (so no improvement over 2023 Google), in the second-best case […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of Google search, for term: kLAErrorPasscodeNotSet

First line in results says:
These are results for kia Error Passcode Not Set

Al Overview then begins:
The "klA Error Passcode Not Set" error means you need to set a passcode for your account or a connected service.

AI bloviation continues, but is truncated after 6 lines and a video

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

WARNING: using LocalAuthentication may summon Zalgo

Screenshot of a debugging session in Xcode with lots of text breaking out of its intended space and overlapping with other UI elements

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Due to some funny coincidence, not only is the “MCP Servers” panel the only one that doesn’t remember its collapsed state and always appears expanded when you reopen VS Code, it is also the only one in the entire app that cannot be hidden. Having an empty list […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

I used to mock Samsung for this, but iPhone Air with Display Zoom enabled has fractional safe area 🤷

Screenshot of iPhone Air simulator, showing 375 points of display width, 812 points of display height, 720.6666666666666 points of content height, and 30.33333333333337 points of bottom safe area height

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Somehow, nearly every router manufacturer has converged into placing reset (reboot) and reset (erase all data) *right next* to each other

Screenshot of the menu bar for AirPort Utility. The Base Station menu is active, with two available, adjacent options: “Restart” and “Restore Default Settings”

Screenshot of a web-based router management menu, titled “Resets”, with two buttons: Reboot and Reset

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

These three buttons with different shadows and colors and going in different directions is quite something #ios26

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Hey now, Anastasia wasn’t among the best films, but this seems a bit harsh

Screenshot of Siri Knowledge. It shows a scene of the animated film Anastasia, with title “Anastasia”, immediately followed by a label that says “Film (<no value>)”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

@lapcatsoftware Hi, it seems “Input maxlength warning” doesn’t take into account text selection on <input type=number>. I presume this is because `HTMLInputElement.selectionStart` and `.selectionEnd` return `null` for these fields, but may I offer an awful hack […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

Also, the description for Sequoia 15.7 was copy-pasted from 15.4. I was confused for a moment, thinking Apple had added this year’s emoji already

“Updates available for your Mac” screen in macOS System Settings. The update named “macOS Sequoia 15.7” is selected, and the update description reads:

This update introduces 8 new emojis, the ability to create Memory movies in Photos with Apple Intelligence, a new Sketch Style option in Image Playground, Mail Categorization, and enhancements to better organize and filter your library in Photos. This release also includes other features, bug fixes, and security updates for your Mac.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

Can anyone confirm that the space bar doesn’t toggle the checkboxes in this screen? Arrow keys are fine and Return confirms the operation, but I apparently must use a pointer to pick the updates.

“Updates available for your Mac” screen in macOS System Settings

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