Bryan

@cookie_lust
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full stack nerd. a sysadmin playing #pokemon and listening to #nin. occasional programmer of #python, #swift, #shell. bheinz on #MacAdmins slack.

a drop of coffee, a sprinkle of neuro spicy, and a dash of lisdexamfetamine; these are the things that make up a me.

Websitehttps://bryanheinz.com
Bloghttps://kernelpanic.me
Githubhttps://github.com/bryanheinz
Last.fmhttps://www.last.fm/user/bryanheinz
Show threadBryanJan 9
@siracusa ah, cool. i was surprised it hadn’t been mentioned. i had assumed someone would have long beat me to suggesting that method 😅
BryanJan 9
@atpfm there’s another way to easily add multiple contacts to a group on iOS that i haven’t heard you all mention yet. go to the group, tap the + button, select all the new contacts you’d like to add, and tap the ✔️
Show threadBryanNov 22
@mikeymikey RIP
BryanNov 15
TiL that the iPad is now thin enough to slide into my couch 😬
BryanOct 14
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithOct 7

An iPadOS 26.1 feature in testing that hasn't been enabled in builds yet:

SpringBoard itself has a system menu bar, with quick access to a bunch of things, including shut down and restart, screenshots, homescreen editing and more. Combined with the previous 'Control Center on External Displays' unreleased feature, I hope that they're slowly building towards clamshell mode for iPad…

xcrun simctl spawn booted defaults write com.apple.springboard SBHomeScreenMenuBar -bool YES; killall SpringBoard

BryanOct 3
@a_frayn i have no idea. i just discovered it while setting up a new test VM. i haven’t investigated that, yet.
BryanOct 3

huh. new (to me) #Apple #privacy checkbox: System Settings: Spotlight: Help Apple Improve Search – […] allow Apple to store your Safari, Siri, Spotlight, Lookup, and # images [(Messages app)] search queries. […]

Apple is so happy to add nag prompts all over the OS, AND YET this gets silently enabled.

really weird how this is placed in Spotlight settings instead of in Privacy & Security, yeah? 😑

BryanSep 22, 2025
Show threadQuinn NelsonSep 20, 2025

Step 1: install shortcut

Step 2: “Add a control” in Control Center, “Run Shortcut,” and select the newly installed shortcut

Step 3: Profit!

Download here: https://snazzy.fm/eP

Or add manually:

Show threadBryanSep 22, 2025
@dmnelson @autiomaa that wouldn’t protect against the employee setting up user/password, though. i can use user/password, but i never remember the workspace addresses. so it’s more flipping back and forth between Slack and my password manager than the dumb email link. just let me log into an email account with user/pass and select workspace[s] from there 😑
Show threadBryanSep 21, 2025
@dmnelson i sure do wish Slack would implement Passkeys. their auth flow sucks.