In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have “no new features”. Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed to build on the success of its predecessor, Leopard, opting to focus … Read more
Apple hasn’t said what limits users can expect, just that they will vary “by feature, request complexity, system demand, system policies, and other factors” and that additional usage “will be available for a fee.” Apple gates some Home app features, … Read more
Free and open source There is no paid tier, no subscription, no trial, no in-app purchase and no account. Every feature is in every copy. Download it from Releases, a signed and notarized build, or build it yourself from this … Read more
Menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota — one bar per account, like this: (drawn for dark menu bars — white outlines) Each bar shows the 5-hour-window utilization for one account, colored green / orange (≥70%) / red (≥90%). … Read more
Container machine provides a highly integrated Linux environment that works seamlessly on your Mac. Container machines are fast, lightweight and persistent. They are based on standard OCI images that can be built and shared. Host integrations such as automatic user … Read more
Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 “Golden Gate” beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your … Read more
Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish – deftly navigating more than nine displays … Read more
In my review of macOS virtualisation on Apple silicon, I quoted performance figures that were obtained some time ago, and didn’t consider minimum specifications for a usable VM. Given current interest in running a VM on a MacBook Neo, I … Read more
Alongside the various bugs you get, one of the issues of upgrading to MacOS 26 is that it has one of the most notorious inconsistency issues in windows corners. I’m not sure what exactly pushes product designers to like the … Read more
Ah, the joys of waking up to find the Mac’s done an overnight upgrade… and erm, suddenly things stop working. Thankfully, me and Claude managed to work out what the fuck is going on… I’m sharing here, as well as … Read more