It used to be so easy to report a bug on OS X. The issue tracker was not a terrible design and I filed a bunch of bugs. Developers usually followed up and most ended up being fixed. Quite a few, annoyingly, were closed as duplicates of other bugs I didn’t have access to, but at least that gave them a signal that multiple people saw the same bug.

The last time I tried to file a macOS bug was painful. It required uploading a load of irrelevant things (you don’t need dumps of my system state for a bug that can be reproduced on a clean install). It also now comes with a privacy policy that I am totally unwilling to agree to.

The rate at which I’ve found bugs in Apple products has increased in recent years (and a lot that I found years ago remain unfixed) but the number I have reported recently is zero.

I don’t expect Apple to change, but hopefully other people can learn this lesson. If you break the feedback channel from your users, your product quality will deteriorate.

#Apple #macOS

@hoco

I appreciated that, even if others did not. (-:

#MacOS

macOS made to run on iPhone

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What if you could run the full macOS on your iPhone or iPad? Quite a few people have made the case to run macOS especially on the latter, and it seems this isn't as much of an unobtainable pipe dream as you might think. Duy Tran has been working on getting macOS to run on jailbroken iPhones and iPads, and

https://www.osnews.com/story/143088/macos-made-to-run-on-iphone/

#macOS

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com#programming #courses #appdevelopment #macOS

Am giving FUSE-t a spin on my #pkgsrc #macOS build host, allegedly it's a significant improvement over macFUSE (no kext sounds good!).

Unfortunately it clearly isn't.

"FUSE-T offers much better performance and this is due to excellent macOS client side NFSv4 implementation"

I've had many issues with macOS NFS over the years, and it's really no surprise to me that this is just blatantly false.

When you can tell just from watching the speed of ./configure output scrolling you know it's bad.

Oh, I know of this chap:

This man page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@NetBSD.org>

At the tail end of stat(1) on #FreeBSD, #macOS :-)

Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

#opensource #macos #windows #linux

I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

Do you write code that runs on Linux and macOS? If so, what does your development environment look like? Please boost for visibility.

#Linux #macOS #SoftwareDevelopment

The pace of software is accelerating, and it's no longer possible to produce binary package repositories that are as backwards compatible as they used to be.

I'm shortly going to have to bump my macOS package sets up to a baseline of 14.5, as the current target of 12.3 is no longer sufficient for certain C++20 features like std::ranges::sort which is now required by print/poppler.

First bulk build is in:

https://reports.pkgci.org/Darwin/14.5/arm64/20250724.1420/meta/report.html

I was kinda hoping it'd fix more tbh e.g. numpy.

#pkgsrc #macos

Nice optimisation now available for anyone using my macOS binary packages from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org

Packages that require fortran support now only depend on the smaller gcc-libs package (7MB) rather than the full gcc package (300MB).

Once you've "pkgin upgrade"ed, remember to "pkgin autoremove" to clean up the now-unused gcc package.

This brings it in line with the SmartOS package sets.

Continuing to push back against bloat one step at a time. Next up, ghc.

#pkgsrc #macos #illumos

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured online course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #programming #macOS

taproom is a cozy terminal user interface (TUI) for Homebrew that is popular on macOS. It provides a fast and fluid way to explore formulae and casks directly in your terminal. https://github.com/hzqtc/taproom?tab=readme-ov-file

#macos #unix #opensource

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taproom TUI app screenshot from macOS.

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗢𝗦 [UPDATE 1 - Network Information on macOS] to 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 [Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/crucial-freebsd-toolkit/

#verblog #freebsd #linux #mac #macos #macosx @apple

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #macOS #programming #career

#macOS #programming people, I need some help.

I have #Java code that parses a CSV file that was written by Microsoft Excel. It therefore needs to know which character encoding was used.

On Windows, the Java system property “native.encoding” is set to Cp1252, which matches what Excel writes. On my Mac, however, native.encoding=UTF-8, but Excel writes in MacRoman!

TextEdit also assumes CSV files are MacRoman when reading them.

Anybody know how Excel and TextEdit choose their default encoding?

#Apple has taken a lot of heat for the controversial changes to #macOS design. I think it's possible to strike a balance* between appealing to Gen Z users, and honoring the old style. Therefore it is my belief that Apple should adopt Sigma Finder as soon as possible.

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* For readers just joining us, the working definition of ideal balance here is one that equally displeases both sides.

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The Finder icon from Mac OS showing a smiling two-tone stylized blue face, but edited with a prominent jawline and sneering expression.

I really wish Apple would stop breaking things.

Latest Command Line Tools breaks yacc, m4, etc.

When you accept the installer it prints a completely bogus estimation time.

Then when it finishes, yacc, m4, etc, are still missing and you go around the cycle again.

This really isn't difficult Apple. With a market cap of over 2.5 trillion dollars, I'm pretty sure you can afford to employ a single #pkgsrc developer. They would find these bugs within minutes before release.

#Apple #macOS

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Screenshot of Command Line Tools installer displaying "Downloading software. About 40 hours, 21 minutes remaining."

Latest #mame 0.278 release finally came out after 2 months of work redoing the sound system. As usual, the #macOS Apple Silicon package is ready, but we’re still waiting on the Intel build. https://sdlmame.lngn.net

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured online course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #macOS #programming

Strong suspicion I could swap out #macOS for #Linux, do better with #Minecraft and most everything else, and not do much worse at macOS-specific stuff like #GarageBand and Messages under #OSXKVM (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM).

Anyone done this, or something similar?

A new #blog post appears!

I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html

#macos #macosx #tiger #powerpc #power #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #solaris #illumos #gcc #llvm #clang #compiler #compilers #assembler #linker #toolchain #freesoftware #opensource #gnu