The Technical Story of the Adium Fixes in Version 0.32

Here are the problems I had updating my Adium plugin for version 1.3 of Adium, in the order they were discovered.
First, Adium plugins now must declare a minimum version of Adium. If you don’t say “I require at least version x.x of Adium” then Adium assumes the plugin is too outdated to work and [...]

Adium Support is Broken

Regretfully, integration with Adium isn’t working right now.
I apologize for releasing without adequate testing.
I did not change any of the Adium-related code from version 2.9 and I foolishly assumed it all still worked because nobody had complained. But in the 13 months since I had last tested my Adium plugin, Adium was updated in [...]

Messages to Nowhere

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NSWorkspace Bug in – openFile: ?

EDITED TO ADD: I could reproduce this bug in a large project, but not isolate it in a smaller one. It is much likely for my code to have a bug then NSWorkspace. I’m still not 100% certain that this issue wasn’t my fault in some way I don’t understand. But no [...]

Hick’s Law

I do not put much faith in Hick’s Law. I’ve seen it misapplied and drastically misinterpreted. Its limits, and edge-cases, are not widely known. I am convinced that it is generally not a dominant factor, even when it is relevant. I don’t agree with many design choices it is used to justify. In [...]

Leopard Unready

EDITED TO ADD: IMLocation now runs on Leopard.

I thought maybe it might receive more attention if you, the Mac OS X software-buying public, were aware of the situation. The third-party software that you’re paying for, depending on, and hoping to run on Leopard, we cannot test on the final release build until we can run [...]

When Computers Kill: Radiation Overdose

I was watching BBC News on EyeTV this morning, and caught the tail end of a horrific story about hundreds of French patients who received crippling, and sometimes fatal, overdoses of radiation.
Earlier this year, a major scandal erupted in France when it was discovered that between 1989 and 2006, two radiotherapy units had accidentally given [...]

MacOSX Redesign: Feedback for “Hold Keys”

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Freakish Bug

A single fruit-fly had been pestering me today. I made a few half-hearted attempts to swat it, but no joy. Then as I was pouring out of a 2L bottle of club-soda, it flew up into the bottle. I don’t know how it made it in through that little opening, while avoiding [...]

NSApplicationName Inconsistencies

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