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John Siracusa
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Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not.

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Meanwhile…
My Warlock in Destiny 2, wearing some Mandalorian-inspired armor and carrying a purple lightsaber.
December 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Here’s my skill tree for season one. I was pretty happy with it.
My ARC Raiders skill tree. Survival: 38 (with Security Breach), Mobility: 41, Conditioning: 7
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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My ARC Raiders departure screen showing my total assets (6.4 million credits), my future bonus skill points (5), and the time to departure (4 days, 18 hours).
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-50th-anniversary-theatrical-release
“You’re all clear, kid! Now let’s blow this thing and go home.”
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This Kickstarter includes a nice FU to Apple’s 16-year-old mouse design. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melt-interface/melt-mouse-0
An Apple Magic Mouse on its back with a charging cable plugged into the bottom next to this new Kickstarter mouse which has a channel that allows the charging cable to be plugged in from the front.
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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And, of course, we have our traditional @atpfm logo shirts, in full color and monochrome.

https://atp.fm/store#atp
A black t-shirt with the letters "ATP" in all-caps in gray preceded by angled stripes in the six-color Apple logo colors. Six different colors of t-shirts with a white ATP logo on them: blue, red, gold, green, purple, and teal.
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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As long as the Mac Pro remains in limbo, we’ll still be offering the Mac Pro Believe shirt. Keep hope alive!

https://atp.fm/store#mac-pro-believe
A stylized illustration of the front top of a modern Mac Pro with the word "BELIEVE" below it in all caps.
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The M5 is here, and so is our M5 shirt. Celebrate one of the few bits of unambiguously good news in the Apple world!

https://atp.fm/store#m5
A black t-shirt with an ATP-style rainbow M5 logo: the capital letters "M5" in gray preceded by angled stripes in the six-color Apple logo colors, in the style of the BMW "M" brand stripes.
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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And, of course, we also offer a T568B shirt to demonstrate the *other* One True Wiring Standard for Ethernet connectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/TIA-568#T568A_and_T568B_termination

https://atp.fm/store#t568b
A black t-shirt with an ATP logo with the normal rainbow stripes replaced with the colors of the wires in an Ethernet cable according to the T568B spec: white/orange stripe, orange, white/green stripe, blue, white/blue stripe, green, white/brown stripe, brown. A close-up of the logo on the shirt: an ATP logo with the normal rainbow stripes replaced with the colors of the wires in an Ethernet cable according to the T568B spec: white/orange stripe, orange, white/green stripe, blue, white/blue stripe, green, white/brown stripe, brown.
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Next up is one of our nerdiest products ever: the T568A shirt design transforms our logo to demonstrate the One True Wiring Standard for Ethernet connectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/TIA-568#T568A_and_T568B_termination

https://atp.fm/store#t568a
A black t-shirt with an ATP logo with the normal rainbow stripes replaced with the colors of the wires in an Ethernet cable according to the T568A spec: white/green stripe, green, white/orange stripe, blue, white/blue stripe, orange, white/brown stripe, brown. A close-up of the logo on the shirt: an ATP logo with the normal rainbow stripes replaced with the colors of the wires in an Ethernet cable according to the T568A spec: white/green stripe, green, white/orange stripe, blue, white/blue stripe, orange, white/brown stripe, brown.
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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macOS 26 Tahoe is a thing that happened. Wear this shirt, inspired by Tahoe’s most awkward icons, as a warning for future generations.

https://atp.fm/store#tahoe
A blue t-shirt with a macOS 26 Tahoe-style crescent-wrench icon. The wrench is holding a white hexagon with a gray ATP logo in it. A close-up of the t-shirt image: a macOS 26 Tahoe-style crescent-wrench icon. The wrench is holding a white hexagon with a gray ATP logo in it. Six different colors of this t-shirt: blue, red, pink, black, orange, and purple. (More colors are available.)
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We’ve also got a cozy new quarter-zip with an embroidered ATP logo that’s great for the crisp fall weather.

https://atp.fm/store#quarter-zip
A black, long-sleeve top with a small collar and a zipper that does down a few inches from the neck. A small embroidered rainbow ATP logo appear on the left side of the chest. ATP quarter-zip tops in four colors: black, off-white, navy, and pine green.
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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First up, we have a new version of the Chicken Hat that’s slightly bigger than the original Chicken Hat (about 1/2 inch larger in circumference), and it now has the ATP logo on the front.

https://atp.fm/store#chicken-hat
A side view of a black hat shaped like a rectangle joined to a triangle, with the tip of the triangle cut off. It looks kind of like the comb on a rooster’s head. A close-up of the rainbow-colored ATP logo patch on the front of the hat.
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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So I got yet another automated email from someone who signed up for a thing with one of my email addresses, thinking it's their email address. Props to Snapchat for being the first and only company I've seen that provides a one-click way to fix this situation […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Text from an email that reads: “If this is not your Snapchat account or you did not sign up for Snapchat, please go here to remove your email address from this.” The words “go here” are a hyperlink.
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Already fixed! It's a Feedback miracle!
A pop-up menu in the macOS Feedback Assistant app showing an up-to-date list of macOS builds for the question "What build does the issue occur on?"
September 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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@nikitonsky There is actually a way to show a different app icon in Tahoe and pre-Tahoe versions of macOS:

Name your Tahoe .icon file the same as the name of your existing .iconset in the Assets catalog and then set the ASSETCATALOG_OTHER_FLAGS build setting […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
September 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This is the complete list of macOS builds offered when filing a SwiftUI Feedback report. Many builds are missing, including the one I want to submit a report for (macOS 26.1 Beta (25B5042k)).

This has been the case for a long time, so I finally filed a […]

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A pop-up menu in Feedback Assistant on macOS showing a woefully inadequate list of macOS builds.
September 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Small SwiftUI popover tip shapes are weird in Tahoe. Sample project: https://github.com/siracusa/PopoverWeirdShape/

Filed as FB20345120.
A small SwiftUI popover in Tahoe showing the weird tip shape, which is circled in red with the red text "WTF?!" below it.
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Anti-Intel prejudice!

This link works: https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_26.0.1/Xcode_26.0.1_Universal.xip
A portion of a Safari window showing the pointer hovering over a link to the "Universal" version of Xcode, but the status bar at the bottom of the window shows that the link actually leads to the "Apple silicon" version of Xcode. (The actual "Apple silicon" link above it also points to the Apple silicon version of Xcode.)
September 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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(Been there, kid.)
A text message from my daughter that reads, “I HATE MICROSOFT”
September 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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It continues…
Text messages from my daughter, a freshman in college: “Help!” ”How to I make a word doc into a file”
September 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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You know what kinds of images look especially good in the new Photos app design on iOS 26? Screenshots.
This is how a screenshot looks in the iOS 26 Photos app as the actual time and app navigation draws on top of the time and app navigation in the screenshot.
September 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Update:
The software update screen in settings now shows “Preparing Update…“ with no time estimate.
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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After an hour of waiting, I decided to check how my iOS update is doing.

(Yes, it’s attached to a charger and within feet of a Wi-Fi access point.)
The software update Setting screen shows 15 hours remaining on my iOS 26 update.
September 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Anyway, a month ago I also filed FB19437407: Provide a way for an app to have different app icons in Tahoe and pre-Tahoe versions of macOS

There is a way to do this today using an undocumented command-line option:

1. Name your Tahoe .icon file the same as […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
An Xcode window showing how the ASSETCATALOG_OTHER_FLAGS build setting looks in the GUI when set to --enable-icon-stack-fallback-generation=disabled
September 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM