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- Apple Picks Gemini - Michael Tsai
Round-up of various reactions to news that Apple and Google have a deal and Gemini will be used for various AI features. There has to be some familiarity here since Apple has…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - The Business of ChatGPT
- Michael Tsai - Blog - AI Deployment and Job Displacement
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for Mac - Michael Tsai
Good index of various MCP tools and apps for macOS. HyperContext looks really interesting. Most notable to me was seeing Ken Case of Omni on that list. If OmniFocus had a built-in…
- Michael Tsai - DeepSeek
Tsai does great roundup posts and this one has a ton of links on DeepSeek.
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Honey Extension Scam
- Michael Tsai - Blog - RCS in iOS 18
Some grounding: SMS is basic texting that was invented decades ago and never meant for what we do with it. MMS was a failed attempt to bring multimedia to that. RCS is a modern,…
- Digital River Not Paying Developers - Michael Tsai
Digital River, a Minneapolis company, has been struggling for a while now and maybe things are getting even worse?
- Scripting News at 30 - Michael Tsai
Great roundup of various posts celebrating Dave Winer for 30 years of blogging. Winer is perhaps the proto-blogger that moved blogs forward!
- Swift 6 - Michael Tsai
Concurrency is a super hard problem in coding. The reactions to initial Swift 6 concurrency features made me chuckle.
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Moom 4
- Michael Tsai - Blog - CrowdStrike Update Causes BSOD
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Signal for Mac’s “Encrypted” Database
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Removes VPN Apps From Russian App Store
- OmniFocus 4 - Michael Tsai
I like Tsai's blog which is filled with round-up type posts regularly. I don't often link to them mostly because they are "round ups" of other posts, so it seems fairly meta to…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Safari 17 Profiles
It took me a while to figure out what Tab Groups would be useful for, and then I started using them for projects and found them great. I've started to associate tab groups with…
- Damus Zaps vs. the App Store
I feel like Apple got this completely wrong. Zaps in Damus are more like sending micropayments in Venmo. You aren't buying an asset. You're not buying anything. It is a tip.
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Little Snitch Mini 1.0
Little Snitch is a great tool that allows you to control the network connections that all software on your Mac uses, and importantly block them. However, it has always been…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - IAP for NFTs
Apple updates their guidelines that NFTs are fine, but you cannot use them to bypass In-app Purchases. So, no buying an NFT to get a feature unlocked in a product.
- Michael Tsai - Stage Manager in macOS 13.0
I tried Stage Manager on iPadOS for about 5 minutes and turned it off. It doesn't make sense to me unless you regularly connect an iPad to an external display and use it like a…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 15 Shortcuts and SwiftUI
Roundup of multiple blog posts highlighting all of the issues with Shortcuts in iOS 15. I've personally experienced this in a meaningful way. I use Shortcuts to automate a lot of…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Starlink Review
I haven't been following Starlink that closely but some recent coverage made me look. At our cabin we only have DSL and the performance is not great. Looking at Starlink I can get…
- Clubhouse Wants to Upload Your Contacts’ Phone Numbers - Michael Tsai
I've been playing with Clubhouse (thanks Hector 😏) a bit. I say playing because it has not really engaged me yet. But I do not like how it is so pushy to get access to your…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - iSH and a-Shell vs. the App Store
I haven't thought as much as I should about the iOS App Store and the policies Apple employs. I know they seem unpredictable at best. I also appreciate the editorial and quality…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Oculus to Require Facebook Accounts
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site
Most people I know that use Amazon get frustrated with this. Personally I pay close attention to who the product is sold by and fulfilled by when shopping on Amazon. If it’s not…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Verizon Sells Tumblr to Automattic
At this point Tumblr the company has long ceased to exist. Tumblr the Community, finding a home at Automattic with WordPress is by far the best outcome that could have ever…
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Malicious Shortcuts
I didn’t think of this but it’s right, it would be really easy to make a shortcut that pulled a copy of all sorts of data from your phone and then had the user send it to you. To…
- Facebook’s “Protect” Feature —Michael Tsai
You'd have to be absolutely bonkers to use Facebook as a VPN service. 🚫
- Michael Tsai - Blog - macOS 10.12.2: SSH Starts Asking for id_rsa Passphrase
- Fixing “Copy Address” in Mail on 10.6
Ken Aspeslagh shows how to restore the Leopard behavior of having Mail’s “Copy Address” command copy just the address, rather than the name and the address (via Justin Williams).
- PCalc 1.7 (for iPhone)
Dr. Drang: If you turn on the HP48 Style RPN setting, PCalc 1.7 does the right thing: it enters the number in the x-register and waits for you to type another number before pu...
- Safari 4’s Full-Page Zoom
Pierre Igot: I must say that this discovery leaves me mightily impressed. There is just no comparison with how Safari 4 scales pages and how it used to be in previous versions of…
- Menlo
Apple’s new Menlo font is based on Bitstream’s Vera Sans Mono (via Joe Maller)
- Top 10 Programming Fonts
Dan Benjamin: Inconsolata is my favorite monospaced font, and it’s free. Shortly after discovering it, it quickly supplanted Deja Vu Sans Mono as my go-to programming font. I use…
- Subversion’s Future?
Ben Collins-Sussman: I’ve chatted with other developers, and we’ve all come to some similar private conclusions about Subversion’s future. First, we think that this will probably…
- MGTwitterEngine
Matt Gemmell: MGTwitterEngine is a Objective-C class which lets you integrate Twitter support into your Cocoa application, by making use of the Twitter API. The entire API is…