Gavin McKenzie

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iOS contract developer since 2010, preceded by a 20 year career as a commercial software developer and architect, and a few years at Adobe. Also learning street photography with a FujiFilm X-Pro 3. Still love my #AppleNewton.

Lived in Ottawa for 25 years. Moved to Toronto in 2017.

LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinmckenzie
Show threadGavin McKenzieDec 18
@stephengrahamking love the photos and that they are mostly of Ottawa where I lived and Toronto where I live. Had to click through to your Flickr to find out the camera and happy to see another Fuji owner.
Gavin McKenzieNov 5
@BjornW UGHH. Some of us in creative roles use Vimeo to get private feedback from clients on video edits and post production, with nice timestamped comments and such. What service provides that? Maybe frame I suppose.
Show threadGavin McKenzieAug 25, 2025
@sanguish I watched all of season one but couldn’t forgive them for the Sam Neill bait-and-switch. He was so prominent in the original trailers.
Gavin McKenzieAug 25, 2025

Toronto Waterfront Terrace

#fujifilm #xpro3 #streetphotography #photography #toronto

Show threadGavin McKenzieAug 24, 2025
@stevex LOL… at least those items will be in good company with the new location for search controls that also made more sense over the sidebar.
Gavin McKenzieAug 24, 2025
For the first time since the introduction of dark mode on iOS, I’m switching my devices to light mode so I can better experience Liquid Glass, warts and all.
Gavin McKenzieAug 11, 2025
Steve Troughton-SmithAug 11, 2025
It's 2025. The last time I had a laptop was in 2012, with the first-gen Retina MBP. My sole portable computer since then has been iPad, for well over a decade, so all these 'can iPadOS 26 replace your laptop?' videos, or the 'we're Mac guys and of course iPad will never replace the Mac so why are they even trying' podcasts, are pretty amusing
Gavin McKenzieAug 5, 2025
timmitra 🇨🇦Aug 5, 2025

Hey Toronto area iOS developers! Yes you! Next Wednesday we’re putting the wheels back on Tacow. Come out and meet your fellow developers.

https://lu.ma/838x57al?locale=en-CA

Tacow August Meetup · Luma

Hey Everyone! Tacow is meeting again! We've got two great talks lined up for Toronto/GTA Apple platform developers, and a chance to meet in person and…

Show threadGavin McKenzieAug 5, 2025
@lucianboboc why the picture of Peter Dinklage though?
Gavin McKenzieDec 24, 2024
post-Gundam cryptographyDec 24, 2024

i forget how i even found Apparency but it's a useful little macOS app that provides Quick Look previews for app bundles: bundle IDs, lists of architectures and entitlements, code signing/Gatekeeper/notarization status, etc. and a more detailed breakdown if you open the actual Apparency app.

i mostly use it for looking up bundle IDs but it's also useful for checking whether something has a PowerPC or 32-bit Intel executable if you're into that kind of thing

it's on Fedi here: @Apparency

#macOS #Apparency

Apparency — An app for inspecting macOS apps