Mastodawn

Aaron Moodie 14h ago

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Chris Messina 16h ago

@stroughtonsmith @gruber just added a script to Raycast so you can toggle your menu icons at will!

https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/pull/1026

Aaron Moodie 16h ago

Icons be gone! https://512pixels.net/2026/03/hide-macos-tahoes-menu-icons-with-this-one-simple-trick/

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons With This One Simple Trick - 512 Pixels

I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters […]

512 Pixels

Aaron Moodie Mar 6

Currently reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. I knew I was in for some disturbing details, but wow. Everything about Meta is repugnant.

Aaron Moodie Feb 21

Sunlight Feels like Bee Stings

https://htrk.bandcamp.com/track/sunlight-feels-like-bee-stings

Sunlight Feels like Bee Stings, by HTRK

from the album Rhinestones

HTRK

Aaron Moodie Feb 12

It’s frustrating when a tool you’ve championed for years starts "nickel-and-diming" features that used to be standard. Removing the iOS app access from the Mac license won’t get me to spend more, but it has cost @Sketch my recommendation.

Aaron Moodie Feb 10

decryption Feb 10

I got a new bag to replace my $15 AliExpress daily carry. This one was way more than $15 but I really liked how it was made in Melbourne. There’s so few things I can carry on me all the time made where I live. Lifetime warranty too.

Aaron Moodie Jan 30

Cory Doctorow Jan 30

OG App is the coolest app you never heard of. Back in 2022, two teenagers unilaterally disenshittified Instagram by making an "alt-client" that restored all the parts of Insta that made it a success and blocked all the antifeatures that Meta crammed down users' throats after they had them locked in.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/#gandersauce

Aaron Moodie Jan 30

Where once it seemed unimaginable, there's now a growing desire to imagine a life beyond Apple's product and ecosystem. Professionally, there are still products I rely on that aren't available—or have sufficient alternatives—on Linux, but I don't see this being true for long.

Aaron Moodie Jan 30

"bookshops make everything better, don’t they? The smell of them, the silence of them, the sense of possibility that each and every one of the books they house promises." 💯

https://www.ft.com/content/cc77c2c9-3415-4b96-af76-65f04d761a85

Client Challenge

Aaron Moodie Jan 26

Casey Newton Jan 26

Has Tim Cook posted his review of MELANIA on Letterboxd yet