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I guess this is where we go to complain that mastodon.social is down.

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.

Free with In-App Purchase is a sham

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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.

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

New blog post:

Google Chrome 136 automatically upgrades your accounts to use passkeys

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

StopTheMadness Pro 16.0 released in the App Store:

underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

Gatekeeper change in macOS 15.4

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

New blog post: App Store Curation

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

ChangeTheHeaders 2.0 released in the App Store

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

underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

UIApplication delegate deprecation coming in iOS 19 SDK

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 3

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

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

New blog post:

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

I have no one at Apple I can ask.

New blog post:

Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections?

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NSURLComponents changed in macOS 15.4

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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

underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

Link Unshortener 19.1 released in the Mac App Store

Fixed link-unshortener: URLs on macOS 15.4

underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

StopTheMadness Pro 15.0 released in the App Store

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

underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

ChangeTheHeaders 1.2 released in the App Store:

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

underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

Apple Software Update dark pattern

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

New Safari extension:

ChangeTheHeaders to customize HTTP request headers

underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

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

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

Google Chrome 134 requires permanent developer mode to use StopTheMadness Pro

underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

StopTheMadness Pro 14.1 released in the App Store

Bug fixes and performance improvements ;-)

underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

iCloud remotely triggers iMessage sign-in and sync

FaceTime too!

lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

Legacy StopTheMadness (non-Pro) updated in the App Store

This update fixes a couple of bugs.

underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

Why StopTheMadness for Safari web apps?

If you'd like StopTheMadness support for Safari web apps on macOS, please let me know what you're missing specifically.

underpassapp.com/news/2025/2/...

StopTheMadness Pro 14.0 released in the App Store

underpassapp.com/news/2025/2/...