Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
★ What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe
If this worked to hide *all* of these cursed little turds smeared across the menu bar items of Apple’s system apps in Tahoe, this hidden preference would be a proverbial pitcher of ice water in hell. As it stands, alas, it’s more like half a glass of tepid water.
[Sponsor] npx workos: From Auth Integration to Environment Management, Zero ClickOps
npx workos@latest launches an AI agent, powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration into your codebase. No signup required. It creates an environment, populates your keys, and you claim your account later when you’re ready.
But the CLI goes way beyond installation. WorkOS Skills make your coding agent a WorkOS expert. workos seed defines your environment as code. workos doctor finds and fixes misconfigurations. And once you’re authenticated, your agent can manage users, orgs, and environments directly from the terminal. No more ClickOps.
Liquid Glass Is Permanent
Danny Bolella (Reddit): If you read the comments on my articles or browse the iOS subreddits, there is a vocal contingent of developers betting that Apple is going to roll back Liquid Glass. […] I shared this exact sentiment with the Apple team. Their reaction? Genuine shock. They were actually concerned that developers were holding […]
Disk Image Performance With macOS 26.3.1
Howard Oakley: This table summarises read and write performance of the most popular types of disk image prior to macOS Tahoe, and demonstrates how sparse bundles have consistently performed best and most consistently, and sparse images (now dropped from Disk Utility’s options) fare worst, particularly when encrypted. Howard Oakley: Although most of the test results […]
Provisioning Profiles in Mac VMs
Quinn: There may be other outstanding issues, but you can now: On a macOS 15 or later host, install macOS 15 or later in a VM.On the guest, log in using an Apple Account in System Settings.And install Xcode.And add your Apple Account to Xcode.And then build and run a Mac app.Even if it uses […]