The thing that gives me a twitch with Apple software is that when it goes wrong it is awfully difficult to debug it, if not impossible.
Also what mad man set the ‘Facetime Reactions’ feature to ‘on’ by default? That upgrade was great I was swamped with messages asking why a confetti cannon was going off in their video during a job interview
This is what finally drove me out of the Apple ecosystem after almost 20 years. Paying premium prices for things that no longer “just work”, which Apple cannot/doesn’t care to fix, and are so opaque that they’re impossible to debug on your own.
If I’m going to be trapped in a world of flaky software, I don’t need to pay the Apple tax for that! I’ll be much happier with Linux where at least I stand a chance of fixing my own problems
The thing that gives me a twitch with Apple software is that when it goes wrong it is awfully difficult to debug it, if not impossible.
My last trip to the Apple Store concluded with a Genius opening a ticket with Apple. Even support personnel don’t have tools to properly support software.
Also what mad man set the ‘Facetime Reactions’ feature to ‘on’ by default?
So right after that came out, I had to fire someone help someone exit the org, and accidentally set off fireworks on the call. When I’m on my deathbed, that, and his reaction, will still be haunting me.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve triggered both the heart emoji while describing a complicated engineering thing to a client and the balloons during a large group call at a point where it was highly inappropriate. At least the balloon thing brought a bit of levity to an otherwise serious discussion.
I enjoy the new “iPhone mirroring” feature in the latest OS, but it will stop working randomly, and when it does, there’s no way to debug why or get it to work again. You just have to hope it works tomorrow.
It seems like Apple went from wanting the software to be “insanely great” to “good enough”. It’s not bad enough that people talk about switching en masse since the alternatives don’t seem much better. Like Windows/Linux laptops still struggle to sleep-to-hibernate reliably in the backpack. Windows is all in on stuffing the OS full of ads, and Apple has started doing it too. At least Linux improves over time but still has basic stuff wrong like stuttering audio after waking from sleep on my device (needs a reboot to fix for me).
It seems like Apple went from wanting the software to be “insanely great” to “good enough”.
And sometimes even “meh”.
It’s not bad enough that people talk about switching en masse since the alternatives don’t seem much better.
That’s the sad truth, the other options are non-viable to me, so I’m tied to Apple, but I’m starting to feel fed up about the lack of care from people high up at Apple.
Apple has started doing it too.
Mainly for their services in contrast to Microsoft/Windows, but it’s getting annoying quickly.
I ran Linux as my main desktop/laptop operating system, but all those little broken things are not what you’d want while presenting in front people, working for your day job or even studying for University courses.
Windows does, but on a lot of hardware Linux does not have issues with sleep these days – I haven’t had any issues with Ryzen laptops going to sleep, even “modern standby” ones.
Got a brand new ThinkPad (T14 Gen 5 AMD) and every time the laptop resumes (or does a cold start), I have to unplug and replug the display (USB-C DP-Alt).
Aside from this big annoyance, so far so good. When I had an AMD ThinkPad four years ago, the fingerprint reader of trackpoint would often not come back after resume. No such issues so far…
My MacBook Pro is nagging me to upgrade to the new OS release. It lists a bunch of new features that don’t care about. In the meantime, the following bugs (which are regressions) have been unfixed for multiple major OS versions:
When a PDF changes, Preview reloads it. It remembers the page you were on (it shows it in the page box) but doesn’t jump there. If you enter the page in the page box, it doesn’t move there because it thinks you’re there already. This worked correctly for over a decade and then broke.
The calendar service fails to sync with a CalDAV server if you have groups in your contacts. This stopped working five or so years ago, I think.
Reconnecting an external monitor used to be reliable and move all windows that were there last time it was connected back there. Now it works occasionally.
There are a lot of others, these are the first that come to mind. My favourite OS X release was 10.6: no new user-visible features, just a load of bug fixes and infrastructure improvements (this one introduced libdispatch, for example).
It’s disheartening to see core functionality in an “abandonware” state while Apple pushes new features nobody asked for. Things that should be rock-solid, just… aren’t.
It really makes you understand why some people avoid updates entirely. Snow Leopard’s focus on refinement feels like a distant memory now.
The idea of Apple OS features as abandonware is a wild idea, and yet here we are. The external monitor issue is actually terrible. I have two friends who work at Apple (neither in OS dev) and both have said that they experience the monitor issue themselves.
I was thinking about this not too long ago; there are macOS features (ex the widgets UI) that don’t seem to even exist anymore. So many examples of features I used to really like that are just abandoned.
Reconnecting an external monitor used to be reliable and move all windows that were there last time it was connected back there. Now it works occasionally.
This works flawlessly for me every single time, I use Apple Studio Display at home and a high end Dell at the office.
On the other hand, activating iMessage and FaceTime on a new MacBook machine has been a huge pain for years on end…
On the other hand, activating iMessage and FaceTime on a new MacBook machine has been a huge pain for years on end…
I can quote on that, but not with my Apple account, but with my brother’s. Coincidentally, he had less problems activating iMessage/FaceTime on an Hackintosh machine.
A variation on that which I’ve run in to is turning the monitor off and putting the laptop to sleep, and waking without moving or disconnecting it.
To avoid all windows ending up on stuck on the laptop display, I have to sleep the laptop, the power off the monitor. To restore power on the monitor, then wake the laptop. Occasionally (1 in 10 times?) it still messes up and I have to manually move windows back to the monitor display.
(This is when using dual-head mode with both the external monitor and laptop display in operation)
iCloud message sync with message keep set to forever seems to load soooo much that messages on my last laptop would be so awful to type long messages (more than 1 sentence) directly into the text box I started to write messages outside of the application, copy/paste and send the message. The delay was in seconds for me.
I’m really heartened by how many people agree that OS X 10.6 was the best.
Edited to add … hm - maybe you’re not saying it was the best OS version, just the best release strategy? I think it actually was the best OS version (or maybe 10.7 was, but that’s just a detail).
It was before Apple started wanting to make it more iPhone-like and slowly doing what Microsoft did with Windows 8 (who did it in a ‘big bang’) by making Windows Phone and Windows desktop amost indistinguishable. After Snow Leopard, Apple became a phone company and very iPhone-centric and just didn’tbother with the desktop - it became cartoonish and all flashy, not usable. That’s when I left MacOS and haven’t looked back.
Recently, Disk Utility has started showing a permissions error when I click unmount or eject on SD cards or their partitions, if the card was inserted after Disk Utility started. You have to quit and re-open Disk Utility for it to work. It didn’t use to be like that, but it is now, om two different Macs. This is very annoying for embedded development where you need to write to SD cards frequently to flash new images or installers. So unmounting/ejecting drives just randomly broke one day and I’m expecting it won’t get fixed.
Another forever-bug: when you’re on a higher refresh rate screen, the animation to switch workspaces takes more time on higher refresh rate screens. This has forced me to completely change how I use macOS to de-emphasise workspaces, because the animation is just obscenely long after I got a MacBook Pro with a 120Hz screen in 2021. Probably not a new bug, but an old bug that new hardware surfaced, and I expect it will never get fixed.
I’m also having issues with connecting to external screens only working occasionally, at least through USB-C docks.
The hardware is so damn good. I wish anyone high up at Apple cared at all about making the software good too.
Oh, there’s another one: the fstab things to not mount partitions that match a particular UUID no longer work and there doesn’t appear to be any replacement functionality (which is annoying when it’s a firmware partition that must not be written to except in a specific way, or it will sofr-brick the device).
Oh, fun! I’ve tried to find a way to disable auto mount and the only solutions I’ve found is to add individual partition UUIDs to a block list in fstab, which is useless to me since I don’t just re-use the same SD card with the same partition layout all the time, I would want to disable auto mounting completely. But it’s phenomenal to hear that they broke even that sub-par solution.
Maybe, but we’re talking about roughly 1.2 seconds from the start of the gesture until keyboard input starts going to an app on the target workspace. That’s an insane amount of delay to just force the user to sit through on a regular basis… On a 60Hz screen, the delay is less than half that (which is still pretty long, but much much better)
Not a fix, but as a workaround have you tried Accessibility > Display > Reduce Motion?
I can’t stand the normal desktop switch animation even when dialed down all the way. With that setting on, there’s still a very minor fade-type effect but it’s pretty tolerable.
Sadly, that doesn’t help at all. My issue isn’t with the animation, but with the amount of time it takes from I express my intent to switch workspace until focus switches to the new workspace. “Reduce Motion” only replaces the 1.2 second sliding animation with a 1.2 second fading animation, the wait is exactly the same.
Don’t update/downgrade to Sequoia! It’s the Windows ME of MacOS’s. After Apple support person couldn’t resolve any of the issues I had, they told me to reinstall Sequoia and then gave me instructions to upgrade to Ventura/Sonoma.
I thought Big Sur was the Windows ME of (modern) Mac OS. I have had a decent experience in Sequoia. I usually have Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Mail, Ghostty, one JetBrains thing or another (usually PyCharm Pro or Clion), Excel, Bitwarden, Preview, Fluor, Rectangle, TailScale, CleanShot, Fantastical, Ice and Choosy running pretty much constantly, plus a rotating cast of other things as I need them.
Aside from Apple Intelligence being hot garbage, (I just turn that off anyway) my main complaint about Sequoia is that sometimes, after a couple dozen dock/undock cycles (return to my desk, connect to my docking station with a 30” non-hidpi monitor, document scanner, time machine drive, smart card reader, etc.) the windows that were on my Macbook’s high resolution screen and move to my 30” when docked don’t re-scale appropriately, and I have to reboot to address that. That seems to happen every two weeks or so.
Like so many others here, I miss Snow Leopard. I thought Tiger was an excellent release, Leopard was rough, and Snow Leopard smoothed off all the rough edges of Tiger and Leopard for me.
I’d call Sequoia “subpar” if Snow Leopard is your “par”. But I don’t find that to be the case compared to Windows 11, KDE or GNOME. It mostly just stays out of my way.
Apple’s bug reporting process is so opaque it feels like shouting into the void.
And, Apple isn’t some little open source project staffed by volunteers. It’s the richest company on earth. QA is a serious job that Apple should be paying people for.
Apple’s bug reporting process is so opaque it feels like shouting into the void.
Yeah. To alleviate that somewhat (for developer-type bugs) when I was making things for Macs and iDevices most of the time, I always reported my bugs to openradar as well:
which would at least net me a little bit of feedback (along the lines of “broken for everyone or just me?”) so it felt a tiny bit less like shouting into the void.
I can’t remember on these. The CalDAV one is well known. Most of the time when I’ve reported bugs to Apple, they’ve closed them as duplicates and given no way of tracking the original bug.
No. I tried being a good user in the past but it always ended up with “the feature works as expected”. I won’t do voluntary work for a company which repeatedly shits on user feedback.
10.6 “Snow Leopard” was the last Mac OS that I could honestly say I liked. I ran it on a cheap mini laptop (a Dell I think) as a student, back when “hackintoshes” were still possible.
I’m in the Mac ecosystem (MacBook Pro, iPhone) so I use and love NetNewsWire - it syncs read state perfectly across my devices via iCloud and just works.
I was a huge Reeder fan until the author launched a new version that dropped most of the RSS sync options due to a new focus on subscribing to non-RSS sources. The old app is still around as “Reeder Classic,” but it’s effectively in maintenance mode.
NetNewsWire is slightly clunkier than Reeder Classic, but the author seems more invested in the types of functionality I want to have in an RSS reader.
Note that iCloud is only one of NetNewsWire’s subscription/unreadness sync options: You can also sync with Basque, Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, or self-hosted FreshRSS, or just keep the data locally. And like any good RSS app it can export and import subscriptions for a quick tryout.
I’m also on the Apple/Mac ecosystem, and I do love NetNewsWire (using iCloud to handle subscriptions and read state across my devices).
I also do love that I can leave a Quick Note on my iPad using the Apple Pencil on articles (swiping from the right bottom corner up), I use this feature in addition to the starred articles whenever I want to add some personal thoughts to what I’m reading.
Interesting. Never knew that. Is there any equivalent one for iphone? I now star articles and then batch process export entire article to obsidian to take notes.
I tried the self-hosted version some months ago, but since I don’t use Deno’s own infrastructure for deployment, I don’t find it particularly enticing.
It gets even easier if you use the “nocloud” flavor of Debian ready-to-use VM images. It literally takes me less than 30s to create a new UTM VM, import the debian-12-nocloud-arm64.qcow2 image and boot it.
No installation ISO involved, no setup required. Just log in as “root” without a password.
The thing that gives me a twitch with Apple software is that when it goes wrong it is awfully difficult to debug it, if not impossible.
Also what mad man set the ‘Facetime Reactions’ feature to ‘on’ by default? That upgrade was great I was swamped with messages asking why a confetti cannon was going off in their video during a job interview
This is what finally drove me out of the Apple ecosystem after almost 20 years. Paying premium prices for things that no longer “just work”, which Apple cannot/doesn’t care to fix, and are so opaque that they’re impossible to debug on your own.
If I’m going to be trapped in a world of flaky software, I don’t need to pay the Apple tax for that! I’ll be much happier with Linux where at least I stand a chance of fixing my own problems
My last trip to the Apple Store concluded with a Genius opening a ticket with Apple. Even support personnel don’t have tools to properly support software.
So right after that came out, I had to
fire someonehelp someone exit the org, and accidentally set off fireworks on the call. When I’m on my deathbed, that, and his reaction, will still be haunting me.If it makes you feel any better, I’ve triggered both the heart emoji while describing a complicated engineering thing to a client and the balloons during a large group call at a point where it was highly inappropriate. At least the balloon thing brought a bit of levity to an otherwise serious discussion.
I enjoy the new “iPhone mirroring” feature in the latest OS, but it will stop working randomly, and when it does, there’s no way to debug why or get it to work again. You just have to hope it works tomorrow.
Not only that, but if you turn it off, it’ll nag you with notifications every time an app starts using the webcam
It seems like Apple went from wanting the software to be “insanely great” to “good enough”. It’s not bad enough that people talk about switching en masse since the alternatives don’t seem much better. Like Windows/Linux laptops still struggle to sleep-to-hibernate reliably in the backpack. Windows is all in on stuffing the OS full of ads, and Apple has started doing it too. At least Linux improves over time but still has basic stuff wrong like stuttering audio after waking from sleep on my device (needs a reboot to fix for me).
And sometimes even “meh”.
That’s the sad truth, the other options are non-viable to me, so I’m tied to Apple, but I’m starting to feel fed up about the lack of care from people high up at Apple.
Mainly for their services in contrast to Microsoft/Windows, but it’s getting annoying quickly.
I ran Linux as my main desktop/laptop operating system, but all those little broken things are not what you’d want while presenting in front people, working for your day job or even studying for University courses.
Windows does, but on a lot of hardware Linux does not have issues with sleep these days – I haven’t had any issues with Ryzen laptops going to sleep, even “modern standby” ones.
Got a brand new ThinkPad (T14 Gen 5 AMD) and every time the laptop resumes (or does a cold start), I have to unplug and replug the display (USB-C DP-Alt).
Aside from this big annoyance, so far so good. When I had an AMD ThinkPad four years ago, the fingerprint reader of trackpoint would often not come back after resume. No such issues so far…
I have yet to be able to resume my T14 gen 4 AMD from sleep…
My MacBook Pro is nagging me to upgrade to the new OS release. It lists a bunch of new features that don’t care about. In the meantime, the following bugs (which are regressions) have been unfixed for multiple major OS versions:
There are a lot of others, these are the first that come to mind. My favourite OS X release was 10.6: no new user-visible features, just a load of bug fixes and infrastructure improvements (this one introduced libdispatch, for example).
It’s disheartening to see core functionality in an “abandonware” state while Apple pushes new features nobody asked for. Things that should be rock-solid, just… aren’t.
It really makes you understand why some people avoid updates entirely. Snow Leopard’s focus on refinement feels like a distant memory now.
The idea of Apple OS features as abandonware is a wild idea, and yet here we are. The external monitor issue is actually terrible. I have two friends who work at Apple (neither in OS dev) and both have said that they experience the monitor issue themselves.
It is one thing when a company ignores bugs reported by its customers.
It is another thing when a company ignores bugs reported by its own employees that are also customer-facing.
When I worked for a FAANG, they released stuff early internally as part of dogfooding programs to seek input and bug reports before issues hit users.
Sounds good, just that “you’re not the target audience” became a meme because so many bug reports and concerns were shut down with that response.
I was thinking about this not too long ago; there are macOS features (ex the widgets UI) that don’t seem to even exist anymore. So many examples of features I used to really like that are just abandoned.
This works flawlessly for me every single time, I use Apple Studio Display at home and a high end Dell at the office.
On the other hand, activating iMessage and FaceTime on a new MacBook machine has been a huge pain for years on end…
I can quote on that, but not with my Apple account, but with my brother’s. Coincidentally, he had less problems activating iMessage/FaceTime on an Hackintosh machine.
A variation on that which I’ve run in to is turning the monitor off and putting the laptop to sleep, and waking without moving or disconnecting it.
To avoid all windows ending up on stuck on the laptop display, I have to sleep the laptop, the power off the monitor. To restore power on the monitor, then wake the laptop. Occasionally (1 in 10 times?) it still messes up and I have to manually move windows back to the monitor display.
(This is when using dual-head mode with both the external monitor and laptop display in operation)
iCloud message sync with message keep set to forever seems to load soooo much that messages on my last laptop would be so awful to type long messages (more than 1 sentence) directly into the text box I started to write messages outside of the application, copy/paste and send the message. The delay was in seconds for me.
I’m really heartened by how many people agree that OS X 10.6 was the best.
Edited to add … hm - maybe you’re not saying it was the best OS version, just the best release strategy? I think it actually was the best OS version (or maybe 10.7 was, but that’s just a detail).
Lion was hot garbage. It showed potential (if you ignored the workflow regressions) but it was awful.
10.8 fixed many of lion’s issues and was rather good.
Snow Leopard was definitely peak macOS.
Are there people who still use 10.6? I wonder what would be missing compared to current MacOS. Can it run a current Firefox? Zoom?
It would be pretty hard to run 10.6 for something other than novelty, the root certs are probably all expired, and you definitely can’t run any sort of modern Firefox on it, the last version of FF to support 10.6 was ESR 45 released in 2016: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/04/29/update-on-firefox-support-for-os-x/
I know there are people keeping Windows 7 usable despite lack of upstream support; it would be cool if that existed for 10.6 but it sounds like no.
Maybe 10.6 could still be useful for professional video/audio/photo editing software, the type that wasn’t subscription based.
It was before Apple started wanting to make it more iPhone-like and slowly doing what Microsoft did with Windows 8 (who did it in a ‘big bang’) by making Windows Phone and Windows desktop amost indistinguishable. After Snow Leopard, Apple became a phone company and very iPhone-centric and just didn’tbother with the desktop - it became cartoonish and all flashy, not usable. That’s when I left MacOS and haven’t looked back.
Recently, Disk Utility has started showing a permissions error when I click unmount or eject on SD cards or their partitions, if the card was inserted after Disk Utility started. You have to quit and re-open Disk Utility for it to work. It didn’t use to be like that, but it is now, om two different Macs. This is very annoying for embedded development where you need to write to SD cards frequently to flash new images or installers. So unmounting/ejecting drives just randomly broke one day and I’m expecting it won’t get fixed.
Another forever-bug: when you’re on a higher refresh rate screen, the animation to switch workspaces takes more time on higher refresh rate screens. This has forced me to completely change how I use macOS to de-emphasise workspaces, because the animation is just obscenely long after I got a MacBook Pro with a 120Hz screen in 2021. Probably not a new bug, but an old bug that new hardware surfaced, and I expect it will never get fixed.
I’m also having issues with connecting to external screens only working occasionally, at least through USB-C docks.
The hardware is so damn good. I wish anyone high up at Apple cared at all about making the software good too.
Oh, there’s another one: the fstab things to not mount partitions that match a particular UUID no longer work and there doesn’t appear to be any replacement functionality (which is annoying when it’s a firmware partition that must not be written to except in a specific way, or it will sofr-brick the device).
Oh, fun! I’ve tried to find a way to disable auto mount and the only solutions I’ve found is to add individual partition UUIDs to a block list in fstab, which is useless to me since I don’t just re-use the same SD card with the same partition layout all the time, I would want to disable auto mounting completely. But it’s phenomenal to hear that they broke even that sub-par solution.
Maybe it’s an intended “feature”, because 120Hz enabled iPhones and iPads have the same behavior.
Maybe, but we’re talking about roughly 1.2 seconds from the start of the gesture until keyboard input starts going to an app on the target workspace. That’s an insane amount of delay to just force the user to sit through on a regular basis… On a 60Hz screen, the delay is less than half that (which is still pretty long, but much much better)
Not a fix, but as a workaround have you tried Accessibility > Display > Reduce Motion?
I can’t stand the normal desktop switch animation even when dialed down all the way. With that setting on, there’s still a very minor fade-type effect but it’s pretty tolerable.
Sadly, that doesn’t help at all. My issue isn’t with the animation, but with the amount of time it takes from I express my intent to switch workspace until focus switches to the new workspace. “Reduce Motion” only replaces the 1.2 second sliding animation with a 1.2 second fading animation, the wait is exactly the same.
Don’t update/downgrade to Sequoia! It’s the Windows ME of MacOS’s. After Apple support person couldn’t resolve any of the issues I had, they told me to reinstall Sequoia and then gave me instructions to upgrade to Ventura/Sonoma.
I thought Big Sur was the Windows ME of (modern) Mac OS. I have had a decent experience in Sequoia. I usually have Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Mail, Ghostty, one JetBrains thing or another (usually PyCharm Pro or Clion), Excel, Bitwarden, Preview, Fluor, Rectangle, TailScale, CleanShot, Fantastical, Ice and Choosy running pretty much constantly, plus a rotating cast of other things as I need them.
Aside from Apple Intelligence being hot garbage, (I just turn that off anyway) my main complaint about Sequoia is that sometimes, after a couple dozen dock/undock cycles (return to my desk, connect to my docking station with a 30” non-hidpi monitor, document scanner, time machine drive, smart card reader, etc.) the windows that were on my Macbook’s high resolution screen and move to my 30” when docked don’t re-scale appropriately, and I have to reboot to address that. That seems to happen every two weeks or so.
Like so many others here, I miss Snow Leopard. I thought Tiger was an excellent release, Leopard was rough, and Snow Leopard smoothed off all the rough edges of Tiger and Leopard for me.
I’d call Sequoia “subpar” if Snow Leopard is your “par”. But I don’t find that to be the case compared to Windows 11, KDE or GNOME. It mostly just stays out of my way.
Have you ever submitted these regressions to Apple through a support form or such?
Apple’s bug reporting process is so opaque it feels like shouting into the void.
And, Apple isn’t some little open source project staffed by volunteers. It’s the richest company on earth. QA is a serious job that Apple should be paying people for.
Yeah. To alleviate that somewhat (for developer-type bugs) when I was making things for Macs and iDevices most of the time, I always reported my bugs to openradar as well:
https://openradar.appspot.com/page/1
which would at least net me a little bit of feedback (along the lines of “broken for everyone or just me?”) so it felt a tiny bit less like shouting into the void.
I can’t remember on these. The CalDAV one is well known. Most of the time when I’ve reported bugs to Apple, they’ve closed them as duplicates and given no way of tracking the original bug.
No. I tried being a good user in the past but it always ended up with “the feature works as expected”. I won’t do voluntary work for a company which repeatedly shits on user feedback.
I wonder if this means that tests have been red for years, or that there are no tests for such core functionality.
Sometimes we are the tests, and yet the radars go unread
10.6 “Snow Leopard” was the last Mac OS that I could honestly say I liked. I ran it on a cheap mini laptop (a Dell I think) as a student, back when “hackintoshes” were still possible.
I’m in the Mac ecosystem (MacBook Pro, iPhone) so I use and love NetNewsWire - it syncs read state perfectly across my devices via iCloud and just works.
I’m also all in on Apple so I use Reeder, and can recommend it unreservedly.
I was a huge Reeder fan until the author launched a new version that dropped most of the RSS sync options due to a new focus on subscribing to non-RSS sources. The old app is still around as “Reeder Classic,” but it’s effectively in maintenance mode.
NetNewsWire is slightly clunkier than Reeder Classic, but the author seems more invested in the types of functionality I want to have in an RSS reader.
Yeah that was super annoying but whichever sync service I used was still supported so it missed me. I should try NNW again.
Note that iCloud is only one of NetNewsWire’s subscription/unreadness sync options: You can also sync with Basque, Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, or self-hosted FreshRSS, or just keep the data locally. And like any good RSS app it can export and import subscriptions for a quick tryout.
I’m also on the Apple/Mac ecosystem, and I do love NetNewsWire (using iCloud to handle subscriptions and read state across my devices). I also do love that I can leave a Quick Note on my iPad using the Apple Pencil on articles (swiping from the right bottom corner up), I use this feature in addition to the starred articles whenever I want to add some personal thoughts to what I’m reading.
Interesting. Never knew that. Is there any equivalent one for iphone? I now star articles and then batch process export entire article to obsidian to take notes.
Looks like there isn’t a quick note gesture on iOS. It’s accessed from the share sheet or a control center icon.
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-quick-notes-iph5084c0387/ios
Same, used it way back when and used it ever since they remade or rereleased it.
I’ve been using it Mac only for years, I never realized there was a iOS app too. Thanks!
Same!
It depends on what I’m building. But mainly:
Typescript + Deno + PostgreSQL is pretty nice. I use sometimes. Do you use Deno-the-company’s KV store?
I tried the self-hosted version some months ago, but since I don’t use Deno’s own infrastructure for deployment, I don’t find it particularly enticing.
Aha, I use Deno as a more secure Nodejs, and ignore their whole infrastructure for deployment. Works ok :- )
You can also try UTM, which is a nice QEMU (and Apple’s virtualization framework) frontend.
It gets even easier if you use the “
nocloud” flavor of Debian ready-to-use VM images. It literally takes me less than 30s to create a new UTM VM, import thedebian-12-nocloud-arm64.qcow2image and boot it.No installation ISO involved, no setup required. Just log in as “
root” without a password.There’s also lima[0]. It uses Apple’s Virtualization Framework if you only need an aarch64 vm, otherwise it uses the QEMU backend.
[0] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Unfortunately, UTM is using a lot of CPU on my M1…