Athanasios Alexandrides

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40+ years in IT and still mentally sane-ish.
The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

@rmondello my only real complaint with the passwords app is the search is kind of awful. Like if I search for: msonline I get a hit for MaStOdoN.onLINE which is…not anything close.

The search needs *work*

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

Just saw someone whose Google account was shuttered. They’d been… using Sheets to track movies they’d watched.

A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.

*** Online shopping in 2010 ***

Me: Hello, UnderpantsEmporium.com? I’d like to buy underpants.

Underpants Emporium: Certainly, sir. Your underpants will arrive on Monday.

Me: Thanks.

*** Online shopping in 2025 ***

Me: Hello, UnderpantsEmporium.com? I’d like to buy underpants.

*ding* ShipPirate.biz: Your package is getting shipped!

Me: Wait, who are yo…

*phone vibrates* SMS from 21525: ORDER UPDATE: package is on the move.

*ding* UPS MyChoice: Your package is on the way.

*ding* Underpants Emporium: Your pants-ckage is en route from us to you.

Me: dudes…

*ding* Underpants Emporium: Be sure to review your underpants!

*ding* UPS MyChoice: Your package is out for delivery. Follow it on a live map.

*phone vibrates* SMS from 21525: ORDER UPDATE: package is out for delivery.

*phone vibrates* SMS from +252 3983929301: There was a problem with your shipment. Please claim your package at che4p-pi1lz.virus-basket.biz.ru.

*ding* Underpants Emporium: how’s that review coming along?

*phone vibrates* SMS from 21525: ORDER UPDATE: the eagle has landed.

*ding* Underpants Emporium: customers who bought underpants also bought

In iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, you can finally set a default app for specific file types! 🎉

Use “Get Info” in the Files app and tap “Always Open With” to choose your preferred app.

Here’s how it looks when setting Textastic as the default for .txt files.

#iPadOS26 #iOS26 #iOSDev

If you use #Safari on #macOS & are driven mad by overlapping — and therefore inaccessible — login credentials from #Apple’s #Passwords app & #1Password, I came across a fix: under Safari > Settings > Advanced, add a custom styelsheet to reposition 1Password’s menu. (Save a file containing the code in the screenshot, name it “something.css”, save it somewhere, and select it from the “Style sheet” menu.) I stole this from somewhere, of course (Stack Overflow?). Copy the alt tag to save typing.
Auto manufacturers have discovered AI.
Satya Nadella’s Majorana quantum processor announcement sounds hopeful but I’m going to wait for the “Microsoft Windows Quantum 32 Home Single Language 64-qbits™” edition if it’s all the same.