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Full Disk Access Was On, and macOS Still Refused the App
12+ hour, 23+ min ago (858+ words) A Mac app I maintain needs Full Disk Access. It measures disk usage, and most of what is worth measuring sits behind that permission. I switched it on in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Full Disk Access, and the app went…...
I built Gridly: a Mac window manager controlled by title-bar swipes
20+ hour, 13+ min ago (220+ words) I’m Michael Yang, a solo indie maker at yangbyte. I built Gridly, a title-bar swipe window manager for macOS 14+. Instead of reaching for a menu or memorizing shortcuts, swipe a window’s title bar to move it into place. Gridly is…...
47GB of Compressed Memory and No Permission to Kill It: Handing a Monitoring Script Exactly One Root Command
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (505+ words) The header comment of mem-hog-guard.sh records how this started. In short: macOS's dasd (Duet Activity Scheduler) sat at an RSS of 264MB while holding MEM 47GB / CMPRS 46GB, pushed swap up to 37GB, and made Chrome's launchPersistentContext time out at 180 seconds. Every SNS…...
plutil -extract replaced my plist with the key I was reading, and exited 0
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (346+ words) A loop of mine walked eight launchd job plists to read the schedule out of each one. Afterwards every one of the eight files looked like this: That is the StartCalendarInterval array, and nothing else. Label was gone. ProgramArguments was…...
The Remote Job Printed Nothing for 48 Hours. stdout Had No TTY.
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (440+ words) I added more prints, then I added logging.warning, then I added a file write sitting beside the print. The file write showed up on disk almost immediately, and that should have been the only clue I needed. The print…...
Kaspersky introduces App Cleaner for macOS, eliminating hidden leftovers that standard deletion leaves behind
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (568+ words) Kaspersky Premium for macOS now includes App Cleaner, a feature designed to address a common challenge for Mac users trying to free up space on their devices: leftover files from uninstalled apps. Caches, preferences, support files and other associated data…...
How to completely uninstall apps on Mac and free up storage
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (929+ words) Deleting an app from your Mac completely isn’t as simple as it sounds. We explain why, and show how App Cleaner in Kaspersky Premium for macOS clears out the leftovers. Every so often you need to tidy up, and that…...
My Security App Used to "Encrypt" Passwords With XOR. Here's the Post-Mortem I Wish More Devs Wrote.
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (427+ words) Most security software marketing sounds the same: "military-grade encryption," "unbreakable," "100% secure." I want to try something different. I'm going to tell you about a real mistake in an earlier version of my app, ATLOCK, how I found it, and exactly…...
Perplexity Open-Sources Lily, a Metal-Driven Local Runtime for Apple Silicon
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (657+ words) TL;DR — Key Takeaways AI search company Perplexity has released a runtime engine, called Lily, that allows macOS users to run foundational models against their own files and processes much more quickly–while using fewer cloud tokens and better guarding…...
The Desktop Looked Right: 2,093 Parse Errors a Boot, and 10.9 Seconds That Weren't Doing Anything
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (1776+ words) This article walks through one afternoon of Debian system management, in which the machine turned out to have been reporting two of its own defects continuously, for as long as it had been configured, to nobody. Debian tells you almost…...