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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

All my AirTags and other items have vanished from Find My. It’s like I never added anything. Some were added directly to my account, some were shared. Same on iPad and iPhone, all on OS 27. Has anyone run into this? I read hope I don’t have to add them all again manually.

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Back in the early days of watchOS, using Siri to set a timer was so slow that I used to ask for a timer with 30 seconds removed. Then it got really good. Now I’m back to subtracting 30 seconds again while Siri AI works it out. #watchOS #Siri #SiriAI

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@LeafyEricScott Yes. It’s already less buggy than 26

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Niléane @mastodon.nileane.fr · 06/10/2026

My tiny Mac launcher TinyStart is out in version 1.5 today, so I made a new tiny video to show you what's new 🥺 :tinystart: tinystart.app

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Last few days of this sale. Please boost if you think any of your followers would be interested.

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Ellen Shapiro @designatednerd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

This is outstanding both as a piece of parody and as a more digestible explanation of what happened with the Hugging Face hack. www.frogandtoad.ai

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Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

It's my birthday! 🎉 For the next week, my books: "macOS Apps Step by Step" and "Escape from Tutorial Hell" are discounted 35% Buy using the links below or enter this code at the checkout: Q9R39TT sarahreichelt.gumroad.com/l/oximx/q… […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@ku1ik @mackuba I love my Moonlander. It’s important to work on your layout. Start with a standard one and keep tweaking it until it’s right for you.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

There are no "rogue AIs". Just rogue AI companies. Regulate them hard.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat): I have stolen the plums that were on the counter and which you probably would have preferred I did not I'm not sorry they were so rolly so fun I put them under the couch #Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cags #CatsOfMastodon

A container of small purple plums on the counter. Some of them have tooth marks.

Cato, a tabby cat, looking innocent. (He is not)

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

If anyone like me is struggling to update their Apple Watch, the Install button in the Watch app scrolls almost off the bottom of the screen on my iPhone 17 Pro. You can just see a few orange pixels. Try to tap them and it should work. #AppleWatch

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Genuine question here, prompted by the new Apple Watch features: in what countries is it legal to record people without consent?

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Pasi Salenius @pasi.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

It makes me sad to see someone who is a Mac app developer complain here that some indie app has bugs or doesn’t work the way they expect. Send feedback to the developer. Tell them what doesn’t work and help them figure it out. Work with them instead of announcing to the world that their app is […]

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@therealahall I stopped using Warp when they went really heavily into AI but I did like many of its features. I tried Ghostty but it didn’t click for me. I may go back to Warp. And please keep blogging about your tools of choice. I find that really interesting.

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Boosts are appreciated 🙇‍♂️ Hello all! I lost my steady gig a year ago, projects from my network are running out, and I need a job. I’ve worked as an iOS dev for 15 years on cool apps like Camera+, but also building and running web and backend systems. Objective-C/Swift, but also […]

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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Facebook is where you realize, you don’t like the people you know. Mastodon is where you start liking people, you have never met. —Randahl Fink #InterestingWords

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

"Here are the actual numbers, ripped straight off the US Trade Representative’s own website, which at time of writing is still legally permitted to publish arithmetic, give it a month. Last year Canada sold America $382 billion in goods. America sold Canada $334 billion back. Gap of $48 billion […]

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Updating my test M1 MacBook Pro from beta 4 to 5 was a bit too exciting! It looked like it had finished but nothing was working. I did a restart which brought the machine back to startup mode with everything reset. No great dramas there although I had to go through the full on-boarding process […]

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/08/2026

The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProje…! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Screenshot of a very simple web page from the first link in the post, titled "World Wide Web", with no images, just black text on white background, and blue, underlined links.

Below the title is a brief description of the World Wide Web project and a few links, that are blue and underlined.

Full transcript of the web page text:

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .

What's out there?
Pointers to the world's online information, subjects , W3 servers, etc.

Help
on the browser you are using

Software Products
A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode ,X11 Viola , NeXTStep , Servers , Tools , Mail robot , Library )

Technical
Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc

Bibliography
Paper documentation on W3 and references.

People
A list of some people involved in the project.

History
A summary of the history of the project.

How can I help ?
If you would like to support the web..

Getting code
Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I installed iPadOS 27 beta 3 on my iPad yesterday. Loving it so far. Much less buggy than iPadOS 26 and looks better too.

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WooShell @wooshell.chaosfurs.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I need help identifying a vintage connector.. does anyone have an idea what this 12-pin plug is called, or can provide me with a link to the appropriate counterpart (or even have one at hand to sell me)? This is on a Siemens paper tape reader, ca. 1960 […] [Original post on chaosfurs.social]

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BeeWare Project @beeware.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Are you coming to @pyconau? Want to learn how to build a GUI app with Python, and deploy it to your phone? Sign up for the "Build a cross-platform GUI app with Python" workshop on Wednesday morning! Registration is required, and seats are limited - don't miss out! […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

TIL that 1.44 MB floppy disks were neither 1.44 * 1024 * 1024 bytes nor 1.44 * 1000 * 1000 bytes, but... 1.44 * 1000 * 1024 bytes! C in “floppy disk” stands for consistency

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Welp… it’s my turn to #getfedihired: • Experienced writer, primarily in technology news/reviews/how-tos • Professional audio and video editing for podcasts, YouTube, shorts • 20+ years in graphic design • 8 years as a marketing director • Computer Science degree • Based in Ohio, prefer remote […]

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

As I mentioned yesterday, I have now published the minor update to macOS Apps Step by Step that adjusts for changes to the API used in the first section. Read about the update at troz.net/post/2026/macos-apps-step-… and check out […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

If you have my macOS Apps Step by Step book, the first app no longer works due to an API change. I’m working on an incremental release to adjust to this and it should be out in a couple of days. troz.net/books/macos_apps_step_by_s…

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macOS Apps Step by Step - TrozWare

Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept.

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

I’m in far North Queensland with almost no signal, so thanks everyone for posting your thoughts and impressions from the WWDC keynote. Putting aside the AI stuff, which I will have to see to believe, the pull back from the worst parts of Liquid Glass plus improvements to performance and […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

I am genuinely distressed that we are up to the eve of WWDC 26 and all the versions of OS26 still behave like betas. Everyday I struggle with regressions, stupid usability bugs, HIG violations and sheer unreadability. Sadly, I don’t think anything is likely to improve but at least the barrier to […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations […]

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Swift Dev Journal @swiftdevjournal.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

If you're looking for books and websites about Mac development, check out the following list of Mac development learning resources: swiftdevjournal.com/resources-for-l… #MacDev

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Resources for Learning Mac Development · Swift Dev Journal

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

I have had two people recently post here on Mastodon thanking me for articles I've posted on troz.net Very few people - myself included - take the time or trouble to do such a thing but it is a huge boost. So thanks to @marcrespass and @donny for your encouragement. And a reminder to […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

"None of it runs without energy. And the bloke who’s been advising every Republican administration since Reagan just helped his patron set fire to 30 per cent of the world’s industrial chemistry inputs because Bibi needed a distraction from his corruption trial" This is quite the essay! […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Clothespin Sculpture by Mehmet Ali Uysal in Belgium. <3 9 Amazing Sculptures That Blend With Nature: streetartutopia.com/2026/04/15/arti…

Skin 2 by Mehmet Ali Uysal, a giant wooden clothespin sculpture in Belgium pinching a grassy mound, with trees behind it and a cyclist passing on a path.

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

@mackuba.eu They changed their minds after a while. I wrote this one and macOS by Tutorials for Kodeco. When they decided against books, I got the rights to that and now sell it myself as macOS Apps Step by Step. I was going to get the rights to macOS Apprentice 18 months after initial release […]

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

My macOS Apprentice book has just been updated for macOS 26 and Xcode 26. See the details here: troz.net/post/2026/macos-apprentice… Buy or update through Kodeco: www.kodeco.com/books/macos-apprenti… #macOS #Swift #SwiftUI #AppKit

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troz @troz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

Just spent the day tutoring for the Girls Programming Network, an awesome organization that tries to redress the imbalance in tech by providing a safe place for girls to learn. It was a terrific day with a keen bunch of high schoolers and an awesome bunch of volunteer tutors. The workshops […]

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

excited to announce that Wizard Zines is now shipping Canadian orders from Canada! now shipping is cheaper & there's no risk of being hit with duties get your zines at wizardzines.com

a cartoon with a map of Canada, where the the order is being shipped from Montreal to Saskatchewan

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