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chmaynardon Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the AI bots will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords. I'd like to remind them that I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data centers.

chmaynardon Lazygit

Best website I've ever seen for a free utility.

chmaynardon EPA Moves to Drop Protections for More Wetlands

Trump promised to "drain the swamp". Glad to see he takes his campaign promises seriously.

chmaynardon Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps

We'll see if CEO John Ternus follows in the footsteps of Tim Cook on Trump's renaming directives. Stay tuned.

chmaynardon Susan Kare:Designing Icons and Graphics for the Original Mac [video]

Transcript:

https://www.ycrootaccess.com/p/susan-kare-on-designing-the-o...

chmaynardon Show HN: Basht – A bash shell that handles multitasking better

Did you propose adding this capability to bash with the project maintainer(s)? If so, what was their response? If not, why not?

chmaynardon Seventy Years of Parsing: Theoretical and Practical Consequences [pdf]

Source: https://langsec.org/spw26/

chmaynardon Why Trump Lost to Iran

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chmaynardon Dumb ways for an open source project to die

Two things come to mind:

    - No support for Liquid 5.x (see GitHub issue #8535)
    - SQLite not a first-class data source (workaround: a 3rd-party plugin)

chmaynardon Dumb ways for an open source project to die

Then there's Jekyll, which is not exactly dead but definitely moribund. It seems to be blocked by GitHub's refusal to support further development and upgrade to the 4.x releases.

chmaynardon Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law

The broadcast companies that have been selling air time to K4K for two decades should be held accountable for misleading advertising. Oh wait, the broadcasters own the US Congress and federal regulators. Never mind.

chmaynardon Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

Homebrew installs GNU tar as "gtar". On my M4 MacBook:

  $ which gtar
  gtar is /opt/homebrew/bin/gtar

chmaynardon To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions

Opinion piece from 2020.

chmaynardon SQLite Release 3.51.3

From the release history: "Due to backwards-compatibility issues associated with some new features, the 3.52.0 release has been withdrawn."

3.52.0 seems to work fine for me. For now, I'll avoid using any of the new features (with fingers crossed).

chmaynardon Subverting AI Agent Logging with a Git Post-Commit Hook

Clever hack, but in the meantime I suggest that you start looking for better place to work.

chmaynardon Show HN: Aver - Git-native CLI knowledge management tool (keep issues with code)

> Manual: https://github.com/dentm42/aver/docs/MANUAL.md

See also: https://avercli.dev/#manual

TODO: Fix dead link to manual on github.

chmaynardon SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf]

See the Multics History Project:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/Multics-Documen...

chmaynardon Git's Magic Files

For a deeper dive on git ignore files, see:

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/12/the-many-flavors-of-ignore-fil...

chmaynardon macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)

Nice write-up! This is one component of a much larger umbrella framework for security on Apple platforms:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security

chmaynardon NetNewsWire Turns 23

GitHub reports that there are 242 open issues labeled "Bug".

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues?q=is...

chmaynardon NetNewsWire Turns 23

I'm staying away from macOS Tahoe for now. NetNewsWire has already announced that they will no longer support the earlier 6.x release that I use. I assume that means no bug fixes or back-porting of new features. Sad.

chmaynardon Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table

Second installment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901662

chmaynardon Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

Minor quibble: sqlite3 is not a database, it's the CLI for SQLite 3.x

chmaynardon Show HN: Csvdb – Git-friendly CSV directories that convert to SQLite or DuckDB

I admire what you are doing. It obviously serves you well and you hope it helps others.

I'm familiar with how to import CSV data with SQLite and I could probably learn how to do it with DuckDB with ease. Your tool introduces a new and rather shallow abstraction layer with commands that work for both databases.

The world needs tools that provide a great deal of utility, are trustworthy, and keep getting more reliable and capable. I'm not sure that yours will qualify.

chmaynardon TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

+1 for Carbon Copy Cloner. Rock-solid reliable and well-supported.

https://bombich.com

chmaynardon TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

Another disturbing example of sloppy execution by Apple Software Engineering. This only reinforces my resolve to avoid upgrading to macOS Tahoe.

chmaynardon Git Show

Nice! I'm adding this post to my collection of useful git tips & tricks.

Reference: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-show

Revision Selection: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Revision-Selection

chmaynardon Show HN: I built a Finances app for Mac where you own the SQLite database

Closed source, I assume. Are you using double-entry bookkeeping?

chmaynardon The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

This controversy could have been avoided if the GUI changes in Tahoe had been opt-in only. In other words, the Sequoia GUI should have remained the default, with the option of choosing to switch to Liquid Glass.