Mastodawn

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/

#HackerNews #roadmapwork #bugfixes #softwaredevelopment #productivity #fixits

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs

Discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs and r/programming It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a quarter or so, my org with ~45 software engineers stops all regular work for a week. That means no roadmap work, no design work, no meetings or standups. Instead, we fix the small things that have been annoying us and our users: an error message that’s been unclear for two years a weird glitch when the user scrolls and zooms at the same time a test which runs slower than it should, slowing down CI for everyone The rules are simple: 1) no bug should take over 2 days and 2) all work should focus on either small end-user bugs/features or developer productivity.

Lalit Maganti

iCulture.nl Nov 24

𝗚𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗵𝘁: ‘𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗢𝗦 27 𝗼𝗽 𝗯𝘂𝗴𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗸𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗶𝘁 (𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗴 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀)’

Apple zou voor iOS 27 hetzelfde trucje willen toepassen als destijds met Max OS X Snow Leopard: het draait vooral om bugfixes en betere prestaties. Toch komt er ook nog wel wat nieuws.

https://www.iculture.nl/nieuws/ios-27-bugfixes-prestaties/

#Apple #iOS27 #bugfixes

'iOS 27 legt de focus op deze drie dingen'

Bugfixes, kwaliteit en AI.

iCulture

Hacker News Nov 24

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs

https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/

#HackerNews #roadmapfixes #bugfixes #productivity #softwaredevelopment #technews

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs

Discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs and r/programming It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a quarter or so, my org with ~45 software engineers stops all regular work for a week. That means no roadmap work, no design work, no meetings or standups. Instead, we fix the small things that have been annoying us and our users: an error message that’s been unclear for two years a weird glitch when the user scrolls and zooms at the same time a test which runs slower than it should, slowing down CI for everyone The rules are simple: 1) no bug should take over 2 days and 2) all work should focus on either small end-user bugs/features or developer productivity.

Lalit Maganti

Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3 Nov 17

macOS 26.1 Seems To Have Fixed the iconservicesagent Memory Leak

A little follow up.

A few weeks back before Apple released the non-beta version of macOS 26.1 I wrote up some observations about macOS 26. One of those observations was about memory leaks.

I cited one example I was seeing frequently with iconservicesagent, a process that the system uses to read and generate icon images. When it goes awry because of a corrupted icon or corrupted icon cache then the memory leak occurs. You can kill the process and it will restart, but that wasn’t fixing the problem and the memory leak would reoccur.

Tracking down what might be a corrupted icon is beyond my skill level, so I was hoping this was a bug that would eventually get fixed by Apple, or an app developer who might clean up an errant icon.

Apparently that happened because I haven’t seen the memory leak reoccur since installing macOS26.1. Of course quite a few apps have updated in the meantime as well. So, there’s no way for me to really know whether the fix was on Apple’s end or an app developer’s without doing some digging I don’t have time for. Nor would most users.

Keep in mind, Apple created an entirely new method for developers to build icons this year. Some developers have used the new Icon Composer already, some have not. It’s caused a few developer headaches, especially for app developers who offer multiple icon choices as a part of their app and general disgruntlement with the icons Apple itself has released. Note Apple hasn’t as of yet updated all of its own icons.

I’m glad the bug has been fixed. Whether the fault was on Apple’s end or a developer’s it points to the catch up that Apple has to do to solidify things in macOS 26 Tahoe with app developers having to follow behind as it does so. We’ll see how many other bugs get quashed in the months ahead with macOS 26.2 presumably coming sometime before the end of the year and successive point releases following in the first half of the next year.

You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.

#Apple #bugFixes #Bugs #iconservicesagent #Mac #macOS26

More Thoughts and Issues With macOS 26 Tahoe

Unfinished Tahoe is not a friend to developers or users

Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3

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Kevin Karhan

Nov 8

@bagder @undead @Ember granted it's one thing if people lie vs. maintainers clowning and ridiculing people for voicing concerns.

I'm pretty convinced that #AIslop just fails basic code quality standards and I doubt that there's much beyond #security & #bugfixes that a mature Software like #curl needs.

OFC it'll need maintenance. No code is bug-free and with such a "cornerstone" of a tool it makes sense that it's being hammered by security researchers of "both teams" to leverage it for a potential exploit. Also there may still be some new protocol coming along that needs implementation.

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)

Attached: 1 image @alsternerd@akkoma.alster.space @Ember@blobfox.coffee @torproject@mastodon.social @tails_live@venera.social @tails@fosstodon.org Also apparently [the devs](https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/12635#issuecomment-3505958847) are now *clowning* instead of actually taking shit seriously! - If that's not a reason to *yeet* @keepassxc@fosstodon.org from Distros & Repos than IDK what is... Cuz passive-aggressively closing an issue and mocking someone is clearly the way to convince the people that one's not a 🤡 !

Infosec.Space

maniabel Oct 30

GIMP 3.0.6 verfügbar:
"Während unserer Entwicklung von GIMP 3.2", so beschreiben es die GIMPler:innen auf der Website, "haben wir zahlreiche Fehler und Regressionen gefunden und behoben. Viele dieser Bugfixes haben wir in diese stabile Version zurückportiert, sodass Sie nicht auf den kommenden Release‑Candidate von 3.2 warten müssen, um sie zu erhalten!" Drei der gefixten Bugs gehörten der Gefährdungskategorie "hoch" (7,8) an.
Ganz klar: Updaten!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/10/06/gimp-3-0-6-released/
noch mehr: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/14d65c898455cec92f5493ace505f0eb815419cc/NEWS

#gimp #bugfixes #infosec #BeDiS #ZDI

BlueSpice Oct 28

📣Today is #Patch Day!
#BlueSpice 5.1.3 is now available for #download.
https://bluespice.com/download/

The new version contains numerous #improvements and #bugfixes.
➡️ Changelog: https://en.wiki.bluespice.com/wiki/Setup:Release_Notes

#mediawiki #wiki #release #enterprisewiki #knowledgemanagement #documentation #update

apfeltalk

Oct 12

Apple bereitet iOS 26.0.2 Update für iPhones vor
Apple arbeitet derzeit an einem neuen Software-Update für iPhones. Version 26.0.2 erwarten wir in Kürze und soll vor allem Bugs beheben sowie mögliche Sicherheitslücken schließen.

iOS 26.0.2 steht in den Startlöchern
Nach neuesten Informationen aus
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/apple-bereitet-ios-26-0-2-update-fuer-iphones-vor/
#iPhone #News #Apple #Bugfixes #IOS2602 #iPhone #M5Chip #MacBookPro #MacOS2602 #Sicherheit #Update

Apple bereitet iOS 26.0.2 Update für iPhones vor

Apple testet iOS 26.0.2 intern und bereitet damit ein Fehler- und Sicherheitsupdate für iPhones und Macs der nächsten Generation vor.

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STEPHAN Digital Oct 3

watchOS 26.0.2 – ein weiteres Update voller mysteriöser Fehlerbehebungen. Welche Fehler? Keine Ahnung, aber danke Apple, dass meine Uhr jetzt vielleicht 0,0003 Sekunden schneller vibriert. Fortschritt pur. ⌚️🍏

#watchOS #AppleWatch #Update #BugFixes #DankeApple