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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

I love how Cyberduck is just quietly, casually resisting the Squircle Jail in my Dock, a fate almost all other apps have succumbed to.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

I love sunny winter days and their colours so much, but there’s something beautiful about the overcast, foggy, almost monochromatic days too.

This is just a picture taken with my phone. Feels like it’s hard to capture fog true-to-life with phones as they’re always trying to boost contrast. I of course took pictures with my camera too, but those I didn’t develop yet.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social You can turn on iOS 18 beta updates in the Software Update settings, and then the phone will act as if iOS 26 doesn't even exist. There won't be iOS 18 updates either (Apple stopped with those), but that's a price I'm willing to pay to not have to suffer Liquid Glass.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

Basically the only menu item here that would’ve benefitted from having an icon next to it… doesn’t have one.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 11, 2026

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If you thought it’s only the Mac that has usability issues on *OS 26, I have news for you…

Edit: this particular atrocity appears to be fixed in 26.3.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

It’s clearly a bogus idea that I should be able to read the title of a background window, especially with Reduce Transparency enabled. I don’t know why I was even expecting anything else. #LiquidGlass

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

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Narrator: “It wasn’t.”

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

Loving all the #superbOwl posts, good to recognise these cute and magnificent birds. I also see some people using the hashtag to talk about some sports thing, I wonder what that’s about.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 05, 2026

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Take me back to the era of UIs where each element was clearly separated and easily distinguishable.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026

#HomeAssistant hive mind: any ideas why the GitHub authentication for HACS keeps expiring what feels like every few days? This has been plaguing me for probably six months, but scouring the web hasn’t turned any useful results…

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Feb 02, 2026

I spent maybe 30 seconds today clicking on the “Search” in the sidebar wondering why it wouldn’t let me type into it… until I realised that isn’t the search field at all.

I guess I should stop using computers because I apparently can’t tell a heckin text field apart from a button anymore.

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It's very cumbersome to launch unsigned apps on Mac OS these days, so I thought about making an app – "Opener" – where you could drag and drop unsigned apps or other items the OS refuses to open. It w

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026

@gedeonm@mastodon.social Thank you, much appreciated 🙏

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If they were still using cats for OS codenames, this would be ‘orange tabby’.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026

@octothorpe@mastodon.online I feel like that’s an insult to orange cats.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Jan 01, 2026

If you’re interested in the script to free your unsigned things from quarantine, check out this reply from @mora@mastodon.uno which includes a variant that you can save as an “application” in Script Editor and then you can simply drop items on it: https://mastodon.uno/@mora/115822014614788097

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Jan 01, 2026

It's very cumbersome to launch unsigned apps on Mac OS these days, so I thought about making an app – "Opener" – where you could drag and drop unsigned apps or other items the OS refuses to open. It would remove the quarantine attribute and launch them. I ended up satisfying my need with a simple AppleScript – really I just needed an excuse to draw an app icon 🤭 Conceptually I liked the idea of a bottle opener better, but a drinks can worked better in the format.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social What, you don't sing along to instrumental techno? Brrrrrrrr Wum Wum Wum

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Dec 09, 2025

@octothorpe@mastodon.online I mean, I do sometimes try to do my best slower down Japanese female singer voice when listening to vaporwave so it’s not that far away from reality 😅

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@marioguzman@mastodon.social @frankrausch@mastodon.social It’s kinda implied by his toot, but I’d like to be explicit in my agreement: I don’t mind if personality shines through *in service to the use

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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @marioguzman@mastodon.social Disco? I loved Disco. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hLbrqCVUI

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Dec 09, 2025

@octothorpe@mastodon.online @frankrausch@mastodon.social @marioguzman@mastodon.social Disco is still one of those apps that I think back to after all these years when thinking about delightfully focused apps with personality. So. Good.

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social @morrick@appdot.net the thing that bothers me about the cursor ones is… cursors are about *precision*. The ‘hot pixel’ in the OG pointer is just that. The tip of the arrow. A

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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social · Dec 01, 2025

@octothorpe@mastodon.online @morrick@appdot.net I’m not really bothered by subtly rounding the very top tip of the pointer, because it’s actually the black area, not white, that is the “physical” part of the pointer and counts as a hit. You can see this when moving the pointer to a screen edge (especially on a 1x screen), the white border will disappear outside of the screen bounds. I’m more bothered by rounding of the other corners in the standard pointer, because it makes for weird proportions with the tail…

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