Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
The Talk Show: ‘A Mitigated Disaster’
Daniel Jalkut returns to the show so we can both vent about MacOS 26 Tahoe.
Sponsored by:
- Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together.
- Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow.
- Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits.
- Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off.
There’s a Hidden Preference to Auto-Resize Columns in the Finder on MacOS 14 and 15
Good tip from “DifferentDan” on the Realmac customer forum, posted back in November:
I saw on macOS Tahoe 26.1, Apple finally added an option in the Column View settings to automatically right size all columns individually and that setting would persist, but I don’t really like Liquid Glass (yet) so I haven’t updated to Tahoe.
Looks like someone found a workaround however for those that are still on Sequoia. Just open up Terminal on your Mac, copy in the below, and press return.
The one-line command:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXEnableColumnAutoSizing -bool YES; killall Finder
(Change YES to NO if you want to go back.)
Marcel Bresink’s TinkerTool is a great free app for adjusting hidden preferences using a proper GUI, and it turns out TinkerTool has exposed this hidden Finder preference for a few years now. You learn something every day. I enabled this a few days ago on MacOS 15 Sequoia, and it seems exactly like the implementation Apple has exposed in the Finder’s View Options window in Tahoe, which I wrote about Friday. No better, no worse.
Nvidia Set to Supplant Apple as TSMC’s Largest Customer
Kif Leswing, CNBC:
Nvidia will become TSMC’s largest customer this year, according to analyst estimates and Huang himself. Apple is believed to currently be TSMC’s largest customer, mostly to manufacture A-series chips for iPhones and M-series chips for PCs and servers.
The positional swap will mark a fundamental shift in the semiconductor industry, reflecting Nvidia’s growing importance amid the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out. [...]
Ben Bajarin, principal analyst at Creative Strategies, said he projects Nvidia to generate $33 billion in TSMC revenue this year, or about 22% of the chip foundry’s total. Apple, by comparison, is projected to generate about $27 billion, or about 18% of TSMC’s revenue.
[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth
Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks.
WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your backend requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh.
Airlines That Support Shared Item Location for Luggage With AirTags
Joe Rossignol, writing at MacRumors:
Apple offers a Share Item Location feature in the Find My app that allows you to temporarily share the location of an AirTag-equipped item with others, including employees at participating airlines. This way, if you put an AirTag inside your bags, the airline can better help you find them in the event they are lost or delayed at the airport. [...] Below, we have listed most of the airlines that support the feature.
Apple’s announcement claims that 36 airlines support it today, and 15 more are coming soon.