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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Thanks everyone for the software suggestions, I've added a few to Infinite HD (and also some CD-ROMs to the drawer). This includes SheepShaver, so you can emulate a Mac while emulating BeOS while running in a browser virtual machine. Runs best on more recent […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

SheepShaver running inside BeOS inside Infinite Mac

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Re: HomeView www.wired.com/story/apple-homeview-… “You can add up to six iCloud accounts, and the user interface will adapt to each person.” I wonder if it will pull the device off your AppleCare One plan every time a different person uses it, like Macs do 😡

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The Apple HomeView Is Like a Giant Apple Watch for the Home

With customizable “faces,” this 7-inch smart display is a unique hybrid between an iPhone and an Apple Watch.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”

Ad for Teufel headphones saying "Not designed in California. Aber in Berlin. Seit 1979"

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

If all you have is a liquid glass, everything looks like a rounded rectangle

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New in macOS 27.2 beta:

In Finder, when you drag to select, the highlighted area is now rounded

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Can I just say that “to back up your login keychain successfully, just turn off SIP” is one of the stupidest official statements I’ve ever seen Apple make. developer.apple.com/documentation/t… The “Warning” and “Important” […]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I've started to add BeOS to Infinite Mac - you can see the first few versions on infinitemac.org/?filter=beos Not having been much of a user back in the day, I'm looking for suggestions of software to make sure to include, or pointers to canonical […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

BeOS R3 running inside Infinite Mac showing GL Teapot, a movie playing, a terminal, a CPU meter and the Tracker desktop.

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

OK, let’s try this: FB24976658: My Apple Account is locked every day Any help from any Apple folks to get this seen by the right people would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Speaking of “The More You Know™️”: in a default Synology configuration, Samba (or, there, synosamba) actually has code in to not return files or folders named CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1–COM9 and LPT1–LPT9. Legacy humans such as I can guess why. So, while you can create them, and they’re stored […]

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I have a new friend in Settings…and it won’t leave, no matter what I do.

“Activate iCloud Storage” with a red “1” badge next to it.

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@stephenrobles The rumor mill has some bad news about the M6 Pro and M6 Max chips that you speculated about in your Mac mini review video…

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I'm now on attempt number four to set up my new iPhone. I got pretty far on the last run! It ended when I accidentally pressed the Camera Control on my old phone, which immediately aborts the setup/transfer process. Of course it does! So sensible. Now waiting for the third erase of the new […]

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Gavin Anderegg @gavinanderegg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I was listening to the @atpfm member's special and got hit by this absolute nostalgia blast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQtzd9l2Uvo

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

AI has advanced enough to suggest file name from its content, but not enough to support whitespaces

Screenshot of macOS GG offering file names during rename

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

:tapestry_app: This is the update you've been waiting for. Coming soon to the App Store. tapestry.iconfactory.com #OpenWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #TapestryApp

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

After being bounced back and forth multiple times between regular Apple support and Apple Developer support, both claiming that this is the other party's problem to solve, I am now looking for anyone at Apple who can put me in touch with the folks that control the system that "locks" Apple […]

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Excited to try this update! (Thanks, CDN propagation…?)

The iOS software update screen showing an update to iOS 26.7 in progress.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I'm starting to add A/UX to Infinite Mac (thanks to the awesome Snow emulator). An early version (with a few releases) is available at infinitemac.org/?filter=aux Would appreciate any leads for 1.0 or 1.0.1 install media (or pre-installed images), and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A/UX 2.0 running inside Infinite Mac, showing a CommandShell and a Finder desktop.

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

A perllsp process (written in Rust, I think?) went rogue overnight and consumed about 500 GB of RAM, making my Mac very unhappy. (No time to debug it, so I uninstalled it.)

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

It's almost a blessing that Verizon Fios is putting TiVo out of its misery in November (by discontinuing CableCARD support).

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@siracusa/117196097… I eventually got back in by changing my password from a Mac that was still signed into this Apple ID, but that revoked all my app-specific passwords, which was a giant pain. …and now I'm locked out again.

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I've had to "unlock" my developer Apple ID once every 5 days on average for the past three months, and once per day for the past three days. Each time I do it, I have to perform a delicate dance to navigate what seems to be some kind of request throttling that gives me HTTP 503 responses during […]

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

My terminal app built on SwiftTerm also has a new theme picker, because themes were overwhelming. Looks fun, but the visualization are not quite as useful as I imagined it would be.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

With everything having notifications now, I’m waiting for someone to invent a notification that can have its own notifications

Messages icon with Notification dot that has its own notification do

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

New blog post where I discuss SuperDuper 4's "follow-up" runs, file protection classes, and hidden detail work that does the right thing without drawing attention to itself. www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/catching_… #SuperDuper #macOS

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Catching Up — Shirt Pocket Watch

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@atpfm/117162643534… (And, yes, I pronounced “patriarchy” the British way multiple times in this episode, for some reason. I blame British TV.)

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

We’re delighted to have been asked to create the icon for Jeff Halter’s free, open-source macOS Tahoe app, which brings the original classic Mac After Dark screensaver modules back to life. Looking for a hand-crafted icon for your app? Get in touch […] [Original post on iconfactory.world]

A series of black and white pencil sketches and the final rendered icon for the App After Dark showing a glowing, red meteor streaking through the night sky. Designed by Iconfactory

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in five years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal and gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the scorching days, batteries release stored sun through the evening, and wind picks up after dark. The […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Let me click that microphone... Oops!

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Someone just sent this to me. I remember first seeing it back then in…an official WWDC QuickTime movie from Apple, distributed on optical discs, maybe? Anyway, can you imagine today’s Apple even keeping a moment like this in an “official” video? (Apple did keep @marcoarment’s bell in that one […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Browsers were made to display walls of text, it’s the one thing they do best. They can literally render the entire War and Peace as a single static HTML page, no problems. So why is your annoying React app removing (“virtualizing”) 8 paragraphs of a tiny 10-paragraph document the moment they go […]

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Ever since Xcode 26, SwiftUI previews haven't worked at all unless I disable sandboxing in my app. If I don't do that, I get this error: XOJITError: Could not create code file directory for session: Permission denied I keep hoping a new version of Xcode and/or macOS will fix it, but it's the […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Up-right, right, right, up-right, down. Fatality!

A website where each top navigation menu option has an arrow icon pointing in different directions

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Welcome to the new SuperDuper! 4.0—a ground-up rewrite, new from tip to tail. www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/supererdu…

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117005… Bring this image back in time a decade or two and try to convince people it’s real.

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@siracusa/116953762… Update: this is fixed now! 🎉 (Presumably it was just a weird bug.)

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

@appfigures Guess who’s back after a long vacation… (I really thought it was fixed this time!)

Appfigures on iOS showing a missing icon for one of my apps.

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

To whoever added several more steps to the task of releasing a TestFlight build to a group of testers in App Store Connect: 👎 👎 👎

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