Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

macOS Text Replacement Export/Import

Adam Engst: What I didn’t know until recently is that Apple provides a hidden—but documented, amazingly!—way to export your replacement pairs to a property list file. All you have to do is select the items to export (Command-A selects all) and drag them to the desktop. You can then edit that file in a text […]

The Problem With the Touch Bar

John Gruber: I know that sounds like a joke but I really do think the biggest problem with the Touch Bar wasn’t that the first crack at it wasn’t good enough, but that they never took a second crack at it. One could argue that the second crack was adding the physical Esc key. That […]

GyazMail 1.8

Goichi Hirakawa: Compatible with Mac with Apple Silicon [i.e. doesn’t require Rosetta]. Updated the app icon. Improved compatibility with macOS Tahoe. Previously: Ending macOS Intel Support GyazMail 1.7

2026 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card

Jason Snell (complete commentary): There weren’t too many radical changes in this year’s survey. Respondents are most positive about Apple’s hardware, with another strong score honoring its commitment to security and privacy. And optimism about the future of Apple in the enterprise skyrocketed, up half a point to tie for second-highest score in the survey. […]

MacBook Neo and How the iPad Could Be

Craig Mod (Hacker News): The iPad should be radically (though obviously) touch-only. No keyboards. No pointers. No mice. No trackpads. Just your disgusting fingers flopping over the screen and mooshing into icons. It should not have any window’d modes. Each app should fill the whole screen and only the whole screen. […] iPadOS shouldn’t be […]