Jay

@jay@metalverse.social
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Web and Java dev. Mac and Win user. PS5 and Switch player.
Projectshttps://gillibrand.github.io/projects/
Keyframe Clickhttps://gillibrand.github.io/keyframe-click/
Jay3d ago
The original Windows 95 Start Menu helped, but kinda sucked. Too disorganized. Usually sorted by company name folders and full of readmes and license files. Ugh. Win 7 era added decent search by app name. They never made a Win 8, right? Win 10 focused on being a good app launcher instead of just an alternate file system view. Win 11 refined that more has good search of settings and other stuff. So, yeah, modern Start Menu is pretty good.
Jay3d ago

So macOS Tahoe Spotlight/Apps (in Dock) is basically... a Windows 10+ era Start Menu! Good.

I use LaunchBar, but when my kids first started on the Mac (after iPads, Chromebooks) they were lost if an app wasn't pinned in the Dock. Spotlight in the menubar is hard to find and the name meant nothing to them. Clicking on the Finder to navigate to "apps as files" was confusing and slow. Launchpad was supposed to be the answer, but is an abomination. Tahoe seems to unify and improve all these.

JayJun 12
Quick, search field or menu item?
JayJun 12
I'm glad search fields in sidebars/Settings no longer look perpetually disabled. Too bad toolbar search looks like an edgeless blur. At least it's not gray!
JayDec 17, 2024
Every couple days Notes starts with... No Notes! 😠 Relaunching Notes fixes it. Maybe somehow... possibly... related to using @launchbar ???
JayOct 11, 2024
@atpfm My first passcode experience was terrible because, well... Apple! You can't save an Apple ID passcode in something 3rd party, so on my Windows work laptop it made me scan a QR code, enable bluetooth, Face ID the phone, and wait forever. Not a win. No other sites are that bad, but some still take more clicks than a password.
JayDec 6, 2023
@daringfireball A slick way to "split tabs to new window" in Chrome is to shift-click from the current to last tab. Then just drag the group out to create a new window.
JayOct 10, 2023

@jsnell, "Apple security people... you're out of control." We laughed at Vista, but macOS is way worse than Windows about "security" nags now.

Give me an "I'll take my chances" mode. If there's ever an app with a custom dialog, saying, "now you will be prompted... got to System Setting and turn on all these things" that a huge UX fail.

JayOct 5, 2023
Years later and the all-square icons in the Dock still suck. Acorn from @flyingmeat is the only good one I have left :(
JayFeb 9, 2023
@jsnell and @_Davidsmith inspired me to download and try Whisper voice recognition to search for something in a podcast. I spent most of the time trying to figure out if QuickTime Player can convert an mp3 to a wav first (I guess it can't)