Everyone needs to see this and also acknowledge why reverse engineering is a super power.
Credit to https://instagram.com/ayoships
Guy reverses the dark patterns of mobile apps and publishes it, absolutely love it!
Me: *eating berries as fast as I can because no one else eats them before they go bad*
Wife: you’ve been eating so many berries lately. *buys 3x as much*
Consequently my morning cereal has become a fruit salad
AI agents make creating and abandoning projects so much faster
I guess Apple is now LG’s design studio
I suspect I am radiating a field today that is causing software and hardware to crash or fail. I will refrain from driving
Step 1: create great iOS game
Step 2: add coins, addictive bonus elements, power-up purchases, intrusive ads, constant upsells, time lock features, subscriptions
Step 3: feel shame for destroying your game
I gotta sweep these mines
Triple-A Minesweeper
https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/
If, like me, you’ve been frequently/accidentally reloading pages in macOS Safari using the new pull-to-refresh feature, and were disappointed that there isn’t a setting to disable that, there is! It’s just hidden in the off-by-default Debug menu.
Instructions to make the Debug menu appear are here, and also how to then disable pull-to-refresh.
“However the current application decided to do it” is not the right answer
When typing in a textbox in #macOS and the system offers a completion suggestion, what *should be* the right way to accept it?
iOS Calendar was no longer getting updates to my work (Exchange) calendar because it was somehow logged out. It didn’t tell me this, it just let me keep thinking everything is working fine, showing meetings that have since been moved or cancelled and making me miss others.
Whenever I get my teeth cleaned and they ask me how often I floss I give a different answer, ranging from never to after every meal. Their level of chiding that I should floss more scales with the response. Clearly it is not based on the condition of my teeth since I maintain the same flossing level throughout.
They should probably cut off air travel to Russia right about now until this whole plague thing blows over.
“So my wife walks in out of the rain, soaked from head to toe, and I say, ‘Look kids, it’s a drizzly bear!’ She hasn’t spoken to me in two days, but it was totally worth it.”
People who schedule early morning meetings: go fuck yourselves
The iOS stocks app used to have great live streaming quotes. At some point it switched to much slower updates to the point that it’s no longer reliable for real-time values. This was a few years ago but it still annoys me because it’s such a regression.
C++26 added std::is_within_lifetime, a trait for checking whether a feature will be implemented within your lifetime.
iOS won’t let me run apps I vibe-coded for myself. Android will. I hope Apple develops a solution to this that doesn’t involve the App Store.
I might have to get an Android device until then.