gnachman

This week I discovered that reloading an outline view leaks the disclosure buttons. The bugs you don’t see are as bad as the ones you do.

Not using Xcode is the greatest improvement in quality of life I have known aside from recovering from a debilitating back injury. So good.

So you’re saying there’s a chance that Oracle will die? Sign me up.

iTerm2 author here. This could be used as a link in an exploit chain but by itself the claim in the title is massively overblown. I’m on a family vacation but I’ll release a fix when I get back.

I moved across the country to work for Palm on a secret project which was revealed to be the Foleo only after I started. I spent a year trying to make the web browser with a totally broken engine they had licensed from Access. Having blown their budget of 100k on the engine they were determined to stick with it. I was amused when it was announced and then canceled after I quit.

That wouldn't very well because Date.now() isn't monotonic.

I worked on this as an intern in 1997 and led it for a while. AMA

iTerm2 has code to detect when the current host changes and then disables paste bracketing. An ssh session suddenly ending is a common cause of it being left on with annoying consequences.

After sending a bracketed paste, iTerm2 watches for half a second for `00~` to be echoed back and then offers to turn paste bracketing off for you.

Every modal reporting feature has similar problems: mouse reporting and focus reporting, in particular.

All but one of my monitors are or were sold by Apple. So they were tested and are usb c and need no dongles. The other is a low dpi monitor with no special features besides hdr.

The three apple approved monitors generally work well, requiring a reboot sometimes only if I unplug them.

The other one I constantly have to fix the settings for.

It sucks. I wish apple employees had multiple displays.

I have five monitors. When it works, it's great. The other 5% of the time it's a giant pain in the butt. I don't know why this part of macOS is so incredibly buggy. It often forgets the arrangement, the HDR setting, and the refresh rate.

I wrote a little program to detect when it breaks and set it back, but they don't have APIs for refresh rate and HDR so it's only a partial fix.

I've half a mind to take a job there, fix it, and quit.

If you got an offer from Facebook they would beat it. I did this in 2012 and instantly had 10x the RSUs. Some Googlers thought it was immoral to do this. It was at this time that comp for engineers radically changed.