Are the #Apple #DevForums down for anyone else? I was in the middle of a complex post and it started acting up (acting like I wasn't logged in). I initially blamed Safari Tech Preview, but then it happened with regular Safari.
Now it just gives me an ugly "403 Forbidden" page. I cleared cookies, same thing. Same thing in Chrome.
Keeping up with Mastodon updates suuuuucks. The whole Node/Ruby ecosystem sucks. I heard there's a Go implementation of the basic protocol. I don't need a website. I can't wait to switch to that. I've never, ever had a Mastodon update go smoothly.
Not only do the new AirTags require iOS 26 to set up (I’m still on 18), they won’t show up at all on iOS 18 after you set them up with an iOS 26 device.
That was a deliberate choice by Apple, to complete hide them from view on iOS <26.
And btw, you have no idea this is the case when you buy them.
Fuck you, Apple.
I just discovered I’ve been getting about half of the Ethernet bandwidth I should’ve been getting, and I’ve been let down by LG and Anker.
My setup is not trivial. I have a NAS in my detached garage connected to a UniFi switch. That connects over Fiber to a UDM Pro in the house. That connects to a UniFi switch under my desk over Cat 5E.
From there, it goes to my LG 5K monitor via an Anker USB-C to Ethernet adapter, and to my M1 MacBook Pro via TB3 (what the LG display supports).
I was measuring 433 Mbps to the NAS using iperf. I did some experimenting, and found that putting the Anker adapter right on my Mac increased that to ~720 Mbps.
That ruined the wonderful setup I had, wherein I only had to plug in one TB cable to the MBP to use my entire setup. So I dug into some storage boxes and pulled out an old OWC TB3 dock with built-in Ethernet. Plugged the MBP and display into that over TB3, got rid of the Anker adapter altogether.
Now I'm getting over 890 Mbps to the NAS.
I'm angry at all the times I had to wait for long file transfers recently. Transfers that could’ve taken half the time, because LG and Anker couldn’t keep up.
I've been working on an open-source thermostat that supports Matter over Thread, as well as over Ethernet (and any number of other ways of controlling it).
Just to test the waters a bit, would anyone be interested in such a thing?
I thought there was like a $10k MacStudio config available, but I can’t seem to get more expensive than about $5500 (not maxing out the SSD, but everything else). I can’t even get it to show me how much RAM the M3 Ultra has. And is there no M5 Mac Studio yet?
The thing that bothered me the most about Project Hail Mary (which makes me sad, because I absolutely love the movie) is that when the ship reconfigures for artificial gravity, it only rotates the hab module 90°, instead of 180°. This means everything inside needs to be designed to rotate. If it just rotated 180°, it vastly simplifies the engineering inside.
I have other issues too (the centrifuge will always bother me). But that’s the biggest one.
Am I the only one infuriated by Apple's smug declaration about the new look and feel in SwiftUI? They're so proud of how it renders an inactive window to "help" tell which window is active.
Dudes, it was better several releases ago, before you absolutely ruined the UI in the first place, and made everything the same shade of off-white.
Alex Anderson-McLeod recreates the Apple Lisa on an FPGA at VCF Southwest (https://www.vcfsw.org/):
I’m pretty sure I’m blacklisted from #WWDC because I write so manny annoyed radar tickets.
How is printing in the Apple ecosystem (or probably anywhere) still so frakking terrible, in 2026? You want to print tiny labels from your webapp or even native app? Good luck.
I am in need of someone to give me a high-level website design for a service I'm developing. I don't need a bunch of web development, just a set of wireframes and design elements (color palette, general shapes and page layout, maybe some icons). Can anyone recommend someone?
TIA!
I get app updates with release notes like this: “Full liquid glass support, including a new app icon with support for icon styles in macOS 26.”
What an astonishing waste of everyone’s time. Apple developers for having to design and implement skins and vapid features; third-party developers for having to adopt them; users for having to deal with the onslaught of marketing and the changing appearance of their interfaces.
And we all suffer for the lack of bugs fixed. You know I still can't choose a spelling correction from the menu and have it actually replace the word it thinks is misspelled?
Does anyone know how to get AppStoreConnect to associate a Subscription with a TestFlight build prior to actually submitting the app for review? I can't give my app to testers right now, as it says "Subscription Unavailable" in the app when I display the StoreKit UI.
AppStoreConnect strongly implies you have to submit a version of your app for full review, but I really don't want to do that prior to some testing.
Because I want to work in metric, but live in the US, many years ago I started work on a little iOS calculator app to make it easy for me to mix-and-match fractional inch and metric calculations. I got it working well enough that I was able to use it, and then it languished for years.
I picked it back up recently, and I'm finally getting close to releasing v1.0. I'd love to get some beta feedback, so if you’re interested, please hit me up for a TestFlight invite.
Is anyone interested in buying an Apple Thunderbolt Display?
On the current NASA press briefing about TLI, a reporter asks about the toilet issues they were having yesterday.. “On a priority scale, was it a number 1 priority, or number 2?”
Especially if anyone has an Apple /// or ///+ they want to trade for it, I'd like that.