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Free with In-App Purchase is a sham

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · May 14

I've decided to stop linking my blog posts here, because there's basically zero engagement. Bluesky seems pretty dead.

If you're interested, I'm on Mastodon. Or of course there's always RSS.

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · May 6

Free with In-App Purchase is a sham

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Why some Mac apps launch slowly: A follow-up

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · May 1

Why some Mac apps launch slowly: A follow-up

TL;DR There doesn't appear to be anything new that I didn't already report last year, despite what you may have read recently from another blogger.

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Google Chrome 136 automatically upgrades your accounts to use passkeys

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 30

New blog post:

Google Chrome 136 automatically upgrades your accounts to use passkeys

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StopTheMadness Pro 16.0 released in the App Store

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 29

StopTheMadness Pro 16.0 released in the App Store:

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Gatekeeper change in macOS 15.4

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 24

Gatekeeper change in macOS 15.4

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The weirdest HTML feature (or bug?): display your headThis is the title element in the head.

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 24

The weirdest HTML feature (or bug?): display your head

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ChangeTheHeaders 2.0 released in the App Store

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 23

New blog post: App Store Curation

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 23

ChangeTheHeaders 2.0 released in the App Store

New feature: URL filter (in addition to the preexisting URL Domains)

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UIApplication delegate deprecation coming in iOS 19 SDK

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 19

UIApplication delegate deprecation coming in iOS 19 SDK

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Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 17

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 3

Plea to my followers: if you can reproduce this bug, please let me know!

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Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 8

New blog post:

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2

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Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections?

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 7

I have no one at Apple I can ask.

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 7

New blog post:

Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections?

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NSURLComponents changed in macOS 15.4

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 7

NSURLComponents changed in macOS 15.4

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StopTheScript 3.2 released in the iOS App Store

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 7

StopTheScript 3.2 released in the iOS App Store

• Fixed the appearance of the Safari extension icon
• Updated the installation instructions on the launch screen for iOS 18

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Link Unshortener 19.1 released in the Mac App Store

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 5

Link Unshortener 19.1 released in the Mac App Store

Fixed link-unshortener: URLs on macOS 15.4

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StopTheMadness Pro 15.0 released in the App Store

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 2

StopTheMadness Pro 15.0 released in the App Store

New features: Force popups into tabs, Stop pull-to-refresh

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In brief, if you want to block popup windows entirely, enable "Stop new windows", but if you just want popup windows to open in tabs, enable "Force popups into tabs".

ChangeTheHeaders 1.2 released in the App Store

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Apr 1

ChangeTheHeaders 1.2 released in the App Store:

Fixed a bug where the error "Invalid call to declarativeNetRequest.updateDynamicRules()" could not be dismissed.

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Mar 31

Apple Software Update dark pattern

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New Safari extension: ChangeTheHeaders to customize HTTP request headers

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Mar 27

New Safari extension:

ChangeTheHeaders to customize HTTP request headers

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Why are macOS security updates re-running the Setup Assistant?

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Mar 12

Why are macOS security updates re-running the Setup Assistant?

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Google Chrome 134 requires permanent developer mode to use StopTheMadness Pro

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Mar 5

Google Chrome 134 requires permanent developer mode to use StopTheMadness Pro

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StopTheMadness Pro 14.1 released in the App Store

Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · Mar 5

StopTheMadness Pro 14.1 released in the App Store

Bug fixes and performance improvements ;-)

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