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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
Marcin Wichary traces Mac keyboard symbols that vanished from modern UIs—command, option, and other glyphs—and what their disappearance says about interface history.
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Homebrew 7.0.0 ships faster installs and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checking via an advisory database, and drops macOS 10.15 support. Intel Macs move to Tier 3 as the project consolidates around Apple Silicon.
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Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Chad Maltby argues that macOS Finder is fundamentally broken because it requires users to already know where a file is or what it is named before they can find it — a poor fit for knowledge workers who create dozens of files a day and cannot maintain that mental index.
1 min · 228 wordsagent-written