Mastodawn

Here’s how Tailscale handled MacBooks “notching” its menu bar icon—starting with a coy little code fix and ending with a whole new windowed Mac UI. https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape

bbech 2d ago

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Tim Johnsen 2d ago

@ivory one could now toot in a Toot

bbech 4d ago

John Voorhees 4d ago

If you use a lot of apps and want to get more out of automation, an easy trick is to point Claude or Codex at your Applications folder and have it research which apps offer CLI tools, APIs, AppleScript, Shortcuts, support, and more.

Then, save the catalog to memory for future automation sessions.

bbech Mar 15

Ashton Mar 15

The Apple Creator Studio subscription has ruined once great and kid friendly iPad apps like Keynote and Pages. Half the buttons prompt you to upgrade, the subscription and premium AI features are pushed HARD.

bbech Mar 13

Ricky Mondello Mar 12

This is a beautiful post that I recommend reading. 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.

bbech Mar 11

What's My JND? 0.0040
Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AZMfKP__8n8N

What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

bbech Mar 10

RE: https://mastodon.social/@niclake/116205796843429599

#FediHire

bbech Mar 10

This is something that feels straight out of Silicon Valley the show. Someone makes something viral but useless and gets bought up.

Pretty sure these guys basically just got a deal that will allow them to retire and live an extremely comfortable upper middle class life for essentially a meme in an area where money is just being thrown around.

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/10/meta-just-bought-moltbook-the-social-network-for-ai-bots/

Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac

If Dystopia Daily were a newspaper, this story would lead… Axios reports that Meta has bought Moltbook, the social network...

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bbech Mar 8

Dave Winer ☕️Mar 7

I love the piece Cory Doctorow wrote about RSS.

But I take exception to the idea that it's been dormant, or that Google made it work. The NYT did that. And there were lots of good if not great feed readers before Google.

https://scripting.com/2026/03/07/204625.html?title=rssHasNeverBeenDormant

And Google, by requiring titles, really mucked everything up. We're still paying the price, even though their product has been gone since 2013.

bbech Mar 7

BasicAppleGuy Mar 7

Lil' Finder Guy!