One Mac tip that I’ve seen surprise people is that some (not all) popovers can actually be dragged off into a separate window. The downloads popover in Safari, for instance.
\n![\"Safari](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/45/2026/safari-downloads-window.png\" "\\"Safari")
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"date_published": "2026-10-21T12:07:40-07:00",
"url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/10/21/one-mac-tip-that-ive.html"
},
{
"id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/10/15/donating-million-each-to-the.html",
"content_html": "Donating $25 million each to the Trump ballroom. Apple and Nvidia can go fuck themselves.
\n", "date_published": "2026-10-15T10:39:02-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/10/15/donating-million-each-to-the.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/10/14/laying-off-people-netflix-can.html", "content_html": "Laying off 1,000 people. Netflix can go fuck itself.
\n", "date_published": "2026-10-14T11:35:01-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/10/14/laying-off-people-netflix-can.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/10/14/i-wish-people-would-stop.html", "content_html": "I wish people would stop calling it Twitter. Twitter is gone forever. It’s X.
\nHow to remember: think of a sawed-off swastika.
\n", "date_published": "2026-10-14T11:02:38-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/10/14/i-wish-people-would-stop.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/09/21/now-that-were-a-year.html", "content_html": "Now that we’re a year (and two OSes) into Liquid Glass, I’m curious about how Mac apps have adapted to it. What are some of the current best-looking and best-designed apps on macOS 27?
\n", "date_published": "2026-09-21T11:31:51-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/09/21/now-that-were-a-year.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/09/02/psychopaths-have-more-empathy-than.html", "content_html": "Psychopaths have more empathy than corporations do.
\n", "date_published": "2026-09-02T09:40:58-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/09/02/psychopaths-have-more-empathy-than.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/09/02/reminder-apple-is-not-your.html", "content_html": "Reminder: Apple is not your friend, even with a new CEO. Apple will continue to do some good things and some very bad things. Any feelings of love you have toward Apple is not reciprocated: Apple has no feelings. It’s a multi-trillion dollar company that, like every other corporation, would like your money but does not care about you, or your values, at all.
\n", "date_published": "2026-09-02T09:10:46-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/09/02/reminder-apple-is-not-your.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/08/26/yesterday-i-thought-it-might.html", "content_html": "Yesterday I thought it might be fun to get more into neovim — I’d downloaded and tried it a bit previously, and it seemed interesting.
\nAnyway, I went to its home page to see if I could learn something useful there, and I saw a DHH quote.
\nNope. The DHH rule says nope.
\nbrew uninstall neovim
Mt. Rainier and cool cloud as seen from the air this past July.
\n![\"Mt.](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/45/2026/rainier-cloud.jpg\" "\\"Mt.")
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"date_published": "2026-08-25T09:31:14-07:00",
"url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/08/25/mt-rainier-and-cool-cloud.html"
},
{
"id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/06/13/i-was-curious-about-netnewswire.html",
"content_html": "I was curious about NetNewsWire for iOS usage per iOS release. Here are the percentages:
\niOS 26: 92.17%
\niOS 18: 6.28%
\niOS 17: 1.23%
\niOS 16 and earlier: 0.32%
\n(The current version of NetNewsWire for iOS runs on iOS 17 and newer.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-06-13T09:01:43-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/06/13/i-was-curious-about-netnewswire.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/06/13/dog-in-my-neighborhood.html", "content_html": "Dog in my neighborhood.
\n![\"Dog](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/45/2026/image.jpg\")
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"date_published": "2026-06-13T07:52:07-07:00",
"url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/06/13/dog-in-my-neighborhood.html"
},
{
"id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/06/08/i-usually-wait-as-long.html",
"content_html": "I usually wait as long as possible before installing new betas of macOS — but this year I think I’ll do it asap and live out of the beta all summer, which I never do, but Golden Gate looks like such an improvement over Tahoe that I want it right goddamn now.
\n", "date_published": "2026-06-08T14:26:15-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/06/08/i-usually-wait-as-long.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/06/08/my-biggest-hope-for-wwdc.html", "content_html": "My biggest hope for WWDC this year is an easy summer 🐣🐥🌴
\n", "date_published": "2026-06-08T09:15:35-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/06/08/my-biggest-hope-for-wwdc.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/06/06/saw-the-church-last-night.html", "content_html": "Saw The Church last night at the Showbox in Seattle — great show! If you like The Church and they’re doing a show in your town, don’t miss it.
\n", "date_published": "2026-06-06T08:44:39-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/06/06/saw-the-church-last-night.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/04/11/this-time-of-year-things.html", "content_html": "This time of year in North Dakota things are more brown than green. The farmhouses almost always have trees planted around them for relief from the wind.
\n![\"Brown](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/45/2026/farm-trees.jpg\" "\\"farm-trees.jpg\\"")
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"date_published": "2026-04-11T15:47:49-07:00",
"url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/04/11/this-time-of-year-things.html"
},
{
"id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/04/11/we-had-to-wait-for.html",
"content_html": "We had to wait for a slow-moving train in Voltaire, ND on our way one morning to Anamoose.
\n![\"View](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/45/2026/voltaire-train.jpg\" "\\"Voltaire")
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"date_published": "2026-04-11T15:45:02-07:00",
"url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/04/11/we-had-to-wait-for.html"
},
{
"id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/04/11/i-was-called-away-from.html",
"content_html": "I was called away from home (back now) for unexpected reasons.
\nHere’s what it looks like to fly into Minot, North Dakota in the evening. Note the many sloughs this time of year.
\n![\"View](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/45/2026/minot-landing.jpg\" "\\"Landing")
\nHere’s the jail in Benedict, North Dakota. My trip was not actually related to the jail! I just thought it was cool.
\n![\"Jail](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/45/2026/benedict-jail.jpg\" "\\"Jail")
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"date_published": "2026-04-11T15:32:57-07:00",
"url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/04/11/i-was-called-away-from.html"
},
{
"id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/03/13/code-is-a-liquid-now.html",
"content_html": "Code is a liquid now.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-13T10:05:35-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/03/13/code-is-a-liquid-now.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/03/06/wordlebot-got-what-was-coming.html", "content_html": "Wordlebot got what was coming to it today. Such a jerk.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-06T18:42:31-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/03/06/wordlebot-got-what-was-coming.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/03/05/reminder-the-seattle-xcoders-presentation.html", "content_html": "Reminder! The Seattle Xcoders presentation meeting tonight is one you really, really want to be there for!
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-05T12:17:01-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/03/05/reminder-the-seattle-xcoders-presentation.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/03/02/before-sending-apple-any-money.html", "content_html": "Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-02T10:55:47-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/03/02/before-sending-apple-any-money.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/03/01/jesper-writes-in-welcome-back.html", "content_html": "Jesper writes, in Welcome (back) to Macintosh, of his hope that Apple can “refocus its software and its humility too.” I don’t want to quote the best parts — just go read it if you haven’t yet.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-01T21:31:48-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/03/01/jesper-writes-in-welcome-back.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2026/02/18/spotlight-has-recently-become-terrible.html", "content_html": "Spotlight has recently become terrible for launching apps after being so good for years. Now when I type something like Cal or Calendar or even Calendar.app I have to manually select the actual app in the list, if it even appears. Should be first thing.
\nJust me? Is my Mac haunted? Probably haunted.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-18T10:27:08-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2026/02/18/spotlight-has-recently-become-terrible.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2025/12/29/karbon-based-and-stay-out.html", "content_html": "Karbon Based, And Stay Out:
\nI sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released… Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation.\n", "date_published": "2025-12-29T18:40:57-07:00", "url": "https://micro.inessential.com/2025/12/29/karbon-based-and-stay-out.html" }, { "id": "http://brent.micro.blog/2025/02/25/ive-been-doing-some-c.html", "content_html": "
I’ve been doing some C programming lately — not NetNewsWire, don’t worry! (it’s a personal project) — and just last night I learned about pthread_once and I’m over the moon. What a wonderful thing!
(I used to use dispatch_once frequently in Objective-C code. I assume it uses pthread_once.)