inessential.comadded August 2026
inessential.com14h ago
That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI The latest macOS is a nice step toward a good-looking Mac UI, but I do wish it had gone farther. I am in particular not a fan of how Mac toolbars look.
inessential.com27d ago
After Fixin’ the Bugs Fixed ’em. Fixed ’em all. Well, almost all — down to 10 bugs on the NetNewsWire bug tracker. (See the Mac 7.1.3 release notes and iOS for the big list of just-fixed bugs.)
inessential.com29d ago
Tech Choices Of course it’s okay to criticize people for their tech choices — for returning to X, for instance, as MacStories recently did. I’m not on X and there’s no way I would return.
inessential.com15 Jun 2026
NetNewsWire Status It’s been a year since I retired — my last working day was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder...
inessential.com2 Mar 2026
Seattle Xcoders Talks This Week Considered Unmissable The title is a little over the top, but barely — we have two fantastic talks this Thursday (March 5) that you should go to. (I’ll be there!)
inessential.com28 Feb 2026
Why Objective-C In my previous post I talk about how I got rid of hundreds of thousands of lines of Objective-C code while at Audible and I explain why keeping Objective-C code around is a terrible...
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