Thread: My next Mac might be the last

Five barriers that might hold Apple back from moving Intel Macs to custom ARM chips (2015) (roughlydrafted.com)

L 0 pts 0 comments by johnblood Apr 17, 2018 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

My next Mac might be the last (morrick.me)

L 36 pts 43 comments by raymii Oct 24, 2022 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512x342, and not 512x384 as One Might Expect (512pixels.net)

L 5 pts 0 comments by ehamberg May 27, 2025 historicalmac Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac (zachholman.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by b Sep 20, 2012 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

brew-cask: a friendly homebrew CLI workflow for the administration of Mac apps (github.com)

L 15 pts 4 comments by phinze Sep 28, 2012 macruby Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Productivity / Career / Business thread

Inception - gain root on any machine you have physical access to (breaknenter.org)

L 12 pts 5 comments by phinze Oct 12, 2012 linuxmacsecuritywindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

"Inception aims to provide a stable and easy way of performing intrusive and non-intrusive memory hacks on live computers using FireWire SBP-2 DMA. It is primarily intended to do its magic against computers that utilize full disk encryption such as BitLocker, FileVault, TrueCrypt or Pointsec."

Disable scroll acceleration introduced in Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion (github.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by jcs Oct 17, 2012 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Apparently Mac OS Mountain Lion introduced this behavior of accelerated scrolling, where making incremental scroll movements on the trackpad while viewing a long document will eventually speed up and start scrolling a much larger amount for the same amount of scrolling. For some reason I only not...

fusuma - window management for OSX written in MacRuby (github.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by jcs Oct 24, 2012 macreleaseruby Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Productivity / Career / Business thread

Heard - a Mac application that locally records what you listen to in iTunes (macwright.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by jcs Nov 29, 2012 macreleasevisualization Design / UX / Visualization Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Emacs Conf to take place on March 30th in the UK (lists.hugadev.com)

L 6 pts 2 comments by JoelMcCracken Dec 20, 2012 emacseventlisp Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

"Fixing" Slow Wake for MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display (ewal.net)

L 4 pts 0 comments by anthony Jan 9, 2013 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Airmail – Lightning fast mail client for Mac. (airmailapp.info)

L 4 pts 3 comments by edward Mar 25, 2013 macrelease Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Your Mac, iPhone or iPad may have left the Apple store with a serious security risk (troyhunt.com)

L 1 pts 1 comments by jcs Apr 30, 2013 macnetworkingsecurity Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Mac OS X FileVault encryption and OpenBSD encrypted softraid on a Macbook Air (gist.github.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by jcs May 14, 2013 macopenbsd Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

I've had to do this a few times and I forgot the steps each time, so I finally decided to write it all down.

Signed Mac Malware Using Right-to-Left Override Trick (f-secure.com)

L 7 pts 1 comments by jcs Jul 16, 2013 macsecurity Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Modernization of Emacs (Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt) (ergoemacs.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by joshuacc Jul 23, 2013 emacs Programming (General) thread

emacs bites (screencasts) (emacsbites.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by puffnfresh Aug 10, 2013 emacs Programming (General) thread

Anatomy of a killer bug: How just 5 characters can murder iPhone, Mac apps (theregister.co.uk)

L 2 pts 0 comments by jcs Sep 4, 2013 macreversingsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

How Apple Makes the Mac Pro (atomicdelights.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by jonbaer Oct 23, 2013 hardwaremac Apple / macOS / iOS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Time Machine-style backup with rsync (github.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by lau Oct 27, 2013 linuxmacreleaseshow Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread

OS X Hardening: Securing a Large Global Mac Fleet (usenix.org)

L 3 pts 0 comments by jcs Nov 23, 2013 macsecurityvideo Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Mac Intrusion Detection Analysis System (github.com)

L 5 pts 1 comments by jcs Dec 6, 2013 macsecurity Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

homebrew-cask — homebrew for Mac applications binaries (github.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by danielsarsi Dec 22, 2013 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Writing Go in Emacs (dominik.honnef.co)

L 9 pts 3 comments by robdaemon Jan 8, 2014 emacsgo Programming (General) thread

Stockfish for Mac - Powerful Chess Analysis (stockfishchess.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by danpalmer Jan 22, 2014 gamesmac Apple / macOS / iOS Gaming / Retro Computing thread

How Steve Jobs Almost Put A Little Man In Every Mac (fastcodesign.com)

L 6 pts 2 comments by ajdecon Jan 25, 2014 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Pac4Mac - Forensics Framework for Mac OS X (code.google.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by inactive-user Feb 12, 2014 macpythonsecurityunix Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Haskell Development on Emacs (tim.dysinger.net)

L 18 pts 2 comments by dysinger Feb 18, 2014 emacshaskell Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

I reviewed all available options for haskell development on emacs again & came up with a 5 minute setup than includes cabal-sandbox-aware repl & code completion.

Running SDRSharp on Mac OS X (jasiek.me)

L 1 pts 0 comments by jasiek Feb 22, 2014 dotnetmac Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread

The EMACS paper by RMS (gnu.org)

L 5 pts 0 comments by old_sound Mar 1, 2014 emacs Programming (General) thread