Avi Drissman
avi.drissman.com
Avi Drissman
@avi.drissman.com
Computer peep. Currently working with Mac and security peeps on Google Chrome, fighting for the users. Opinions are my own. he/him

Crossposting from https://mas.to/@avidrissman
Food tracked in the MacroFactor app gets archived in Apple Health. Meanwhile, Guava Health is poking around that archive, and testing correlations of everything to everything else to see what it can find. And we get... this? I fear that we have a https://xkcd.com/882/ situation.
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
CW: TW: Drinking culture

These are not fighting words, despite the subtitle; it’s speaking the truth when no one cares to hear.

https://thirdplacebarnyc.substack.com/p/the-worst-mocktail-menus-in-nyc
The worst mocktail menus in NYC
It's Friday, let's fight.
thirdplacebarnyc.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Nothing like wearing a costume that you have to _explain_. “Ok, the claws aren’t Freddy Krueger. Who else has claws? Have you heard of the X-Men?…”
October 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Does anyone know anyone at Cao Gadgets aka Wireless Sensor Tags aka http://wirelesstag.net/ ? For a day now, my tags have been gone from my account and when I log in all I see are someone else’s tags. Someone screwed up something fierce. I see nothing on their site or support group ( https://groups.
September 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
XG 6, what are you doing!? There is literally no cable plugged into port 4, because ports 3 and 4 glitched out and stopped working the other week. How could STP be triggering?

Eagerly awaiting the shipping of the new Pro XG 8 PoE.
July 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@init-hello.org Heads-up: Your Twitch profile at www.twitch.tv/init_hello has an incorrect Bluesky link, one that 404s (“init-hello.bsky.social”), not this profile.
INIT_HELLO - Twitch
You have a diskette and you want to start fresh. So you run “INIT HELLO” on your Apple II and you get a clean slate. Watch this space for more details about the clean slate that is coming.
www.twitch.tv
July 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A brief technical writeup about those images to the left of menu items on macOS 26 (aka “action images”): https://crbug.com/423632863#comment12
July 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
As of the SDK included with Xcode 26 beta 3, SecIdentityCreate is now public API, API_AVAILABLE to macOS 10.12 and iOS 11.2. It’s already used by WebKit ( https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AWebKit%2FWebKit+SecIdentityCreate&type=code ) and ffmpeg (
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July 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Cmon Best Buy. “Good” condition is maybe missing non-essential parts/accessories, and so “Fair” might have ESSENTIAL parts missing. That’s not a “fair” quality used product. That’s a “for parts” quality used product.
July 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Note that macOS 26 has chonk window control buttons. Existing apps retain their smol buttons when run on 26. This is gated on the SDK that you link. When you link the macOS 26 SDK you automatically get chonk buttons.

This is courtesy of `-[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]`. If you fiddle with
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Time to descend into the madness that is scrolling and swiping. Wish me luck.
May 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A good keyboard has about 13 fluid ounces of key switches.
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can someone at IMDB help accept this goofs entry? It was rejected and I’m resubmitting with an explanation.
January 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hang on, heading to IMDB to submit a “character error” goof for Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

You all know what I’m talking about.
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
University researchers are tracking the effect of congestion pricing in NYC on commute times. This is a really cool use of data to gain insights.

https://www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com/
January 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wait, is that why my battery life has gone downhill in the last few weeks? Time for a test. https://iosdev.space/@marcpalmer/113697462517904661
December 22, 2024 at 8:33 PM
BRB, writing a code comment

// Work around an OS issue by doing xyz

with the blind belief that if I invent a workaround in my head and describe the workaround in enough detail in my code comment then surely that means that the workaround will work.
December 18, 2024 at 1:49 AM