Notices by Jeff Johnson (lapcatsoftware@appdot.net)

GMail is Breaking Email

http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html

"How come Apple allows predatory scam apps on the app store?"

Good question.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/11tw577/how_come_apple_allows_predatory_scam_apps_on_the/

@jsq I'm reading this blog post right now, and it makes me sad, because it means my great idea is DOA.
https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2018/11/17/executing-applescript-in-mac-app-on-macos-mojave/

I hate hearing about "alternative app stores". It's such a narrow way of thinking. Call it "independent distribution".

Buy directly from the software developer. App stores should be the exception, not the norm.

StopTheMadness is updated today in the iOS App Store and Mac App Store.

https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-3-14.html

Gotta love the 1 character bug fix

I'm looking to raise $200 million for StartupTheMadness

My web browser extension StopTheMadness has been updated today in the iOS and Mac App Stores.

New feature video highlight, and much more!

https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-2-23.html

15 years after the crApp Store opened, you're no longer allowed to say "It's a good idea for Apple to review all apps, but Apple's execution of this idea is highly flawed."

The crApp Store is nothing more than the highly flawed execution. It doesn't get any better than this. If not now, then when?

Software engineers delude themselves: "clean" or "simple" code is a myth. I've never seen it in my life.

All useful and enduring code necessarily becomes complex. You need engineers who can handle complexity, dive deep, make order out of chaos, propagate institutional knowledge via documentation and teaching.

Occasionally, code needs to be rewritten from scratch. But this is best managed by those intimate with the old code, who know its strengths and weaknesses, where the bodies are buried.

Safari 16.4 release notes:

Added support for constructible and adoptable CSSStyleSheet objects. (Hooray!)

Added support for RegExp lookbehind assertions. (Finally!)

Fixed the Computed Tab scrolling to the top when a <style> is added to the page. (My bug!)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-16_4-release-notes

A funny thing I've learned developing web browser extensions:

Web sites don't change as frequently as you think they might.

Sometimes they're more stable than operating systems LOL.

1) Game developers don't want to use the Apple-only Metal framework.

2) The Epic case proved that Mac distribution isn't actually independent of the crApp Store. Apple killed Epic's Developer ID certificate too.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/apple-execs-on-m2-chips-winning-gamers-and-when-to-buy-a-mac/