I'll ask Claude questions I already know a solution to, just to see if it comes up with a better idea and I got excited for an answer it gave because holy crap I've never heard of that method before then then…

And of course, you'll want to have a nice little reminder in place to see if it's added in a future OS release.

Over the holidays each year I like to do some coding that's not so pressing and just see where it takes me. So I got some metal things going a bit smoother in Acorn, and then decided I needed to also unify some of the colors and such so I came up with an internal theming engine and then I thought… why not Mac OS 9's platinum? So here's that in an incomplete state.

OK, what default or command did I use to make this global debug menu show up? It's great, but I need it gone for the moment:

The Dock in macOS 26.1 betas are … confused. I only have one instance of Acorn running, and one instance of Retrobatch. And yet:

This is what it looks like when I try and use the scroll wheel in Tahoe's Calendar app. Is it just me, or does this happen to anyone else (scrolling doesn't really happen).

Of course Tahoe bugs make it look like this at times:

Playing around with LG possibilities with Acorn. Of course I had to make a pref pane for all the different variations.

Now you'll never be able to unsee this as well.

Go home Xcode 26, you're drunk.