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Apple

14 posts
Sep 2014 – Dec 2025

Never use Apple gift cards

By now most anyone who follows Apple news will have heard about Paris Buttfield-Addison's saga, wherein redeeming a legitimately-purchased Apple gift card led directly to his Apple account being locked and his access to all his data — including a multi-terabyte photo library — revoked. You can read more about …

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I'm actually pretty sure Safari does "support audio and video."

Looking at you, HackerRank.

I've long been worried that Apple will drop support for AppleScript automation in macOS updates, or at least allow it to decay into a horrible broken state.

But the fact that Claude, ChatGPT, etc. are now relying on it for high-profile features gives me hope.

Great Moments in Modern Apple User Experience Design

Remember when Apple cared about the end-user experience?

Working around the “Untrusted Developer” bug on iOS 15

Part of the iOS 15 Bugs series. One of the must infuriating bugs, for me, on iOS 15 is that I can't run my own software on my phone. I can install my app via Xcode, but running it presents this dialog, and crucially nowhere in Settings can …

Checking in on iOS 15 bugs, as of 15.0.2

tl;dr: it's still buggy.

More Bugs in iPhone 13 & iOS 15

Part of the iOS 15 Bugs series. Since my last post, I've bought a new iPhone 13. I've encountered some new bugs, along with some old ones I expected a new phone to solve. A recurring theme for me: Apple's hardware is great. Their …

iOS 15 & Safari 15

Part of the iOS 15 Bugs series. iOS 15 is out. Overall I'm happy-ish with it, but I've run into some bugs/annoyances. A lot of these are around Focus Modes, which is maybe the iOS 15 feature I've played with most so far. …

Replacing iTunes, Music.app, iTunes Match, and iCloud Music Library

Part of the Project Logs series. More follow-up from my recent “Now” post: I’ve finally (mostly) extricated my music library from the entirety of Apple’s music ecosystem. This post documents how and why I did that. The Problems A long, long time ago, I used iTunes to play …

Let’s Encrypt vs. iTunes: anatomy of an error delivering Fatal Error

iTunes appears to use Java to fetch podcast feeds, which doesn't trust the root certificate for Let’s Encrypt, the certificate authority Squarespace uses to serve sites via HTTPS.

Fixing Storyboard Segues: Only Apple Can Do This

Storyboard segues are unambiguously broken.

Why I’m selling my Apple Watch

Cocoa’s mutable-subclass pattern is an antipattern

We know we can’t mutate a mutable array while enumerating, and yes, we have to take care to avoid that. But wait a second—why is that *our* problem, as users of Apple’s Foundation framework?

iOS 8 Extensions Roundup

I’m excited to start using iOS 8 extensions, but it’s looking like it’ll be a rough ride for a little while.