Tootfinder

My friend as moved his main domain from .nl to .eu , Interesting move.
#Apple #iPhone

from my link log —
eslogger: trace filesystem events using the Mac OS X endpoint security framework.
https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/mac_os/debugging_os_x.html
saved 2025-07-10

Exactly 20 years ago I published a blog post (which I've edited to adapt to my most recent incarnation of a blog) , with a comparison of tools and frameworks for quite a few technology stacks: Java, .NET, PHP, etc.
This was right at the very early stages of the Cloud, there was no "Big Data", there was certainly no AI, there was no iPhone or Android, Mac OS X releases were still big cats, Ubuntu had just appeared, and social media was just Orkut or MySpace. Enjoy.

State of the Art
This article is a copy of a research work I did today, to draw a map of today’s development technologies.

still works .... my #iPod

There was a time when, if you were lucky enough to get a piece of software stable and working well, it continued to be stable and work well.
Now we have relentless updates, whose problems are exemplified by an overnight update of my Mac to OS X 15.6 doing a factory reset of the settings of many of my programs.
Let's not even go into the behavioral changes that get pushed that invalidate all your muscle memory in order to boost some product manager's performance review.
I like stability, but it's just another casualty of this endless churn.

Mac OS Tahoe trying to catch up to @… with Spotlight, I see. Hope they expose the APIs so Raycast can do it better, as usual. #WWDC25

We have lost our way. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/114983588990828450

#Apple has taken a lot of heat for the controversial changes to #macOS design. I think it's possible to strike a balance* between appealing to Gen Z users, and honoring the old style. Therefore it is my belief that Apple should adopt Sigma Finder as soon as possible.
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"Hard to believe, but it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming “Redmond, start your photocopiers” or “Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista”. The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the “Longhorn” saga."

Dave Plummer
Hard to believe as it is, it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming "Redmond, start your photocopiers" or "Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista". The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the "Longhorn" saga.

Baues-Wirsching Cohomology and Svarc Genus in Small Categories
Isaac Carcac\'ia-Campos, Enrique Mac\'ias-Virg\'os, David Mosquera-Lois
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00727

Baues-Wirsching Cohomology and Svarc Genus in Small Categories
We prove that for a bifibration P between small categories, the lenght of the cup product in the kernel of the induced morphism in the Baues-Wirsching cohomology with coefficients in any natural system is a lower bound for the homotopic sectional category (also called Svarc genus). Our results extend classical Svarc type inequalties to the categorical setting and introduce a computationally efficient method via a reduced cochain complex for Baues-Wirching cohomology.

Today, a new intern asked me if we use Windows or Mac OS.
- No.

Shift-Command-4
Mac OS

I use the fantastic pasteboard manager for my Mac, Pastebot, by @…. I don’t think it’s actively developed at this point, just keeps up with security patches and OS updates.
A feature I’d love to see them add is an option to strip all tracking parameters (or the entire query string) from urls when pasting.
Maybe they don’t want to do this. Maybe there…