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SIGPIPE 13
Personal blog · sigpipe.macromates.comprogrammingsystems
SIGPIPE 13 is a personal blog at sigpipe.macromates.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blog by Allan Odgaard, author of TextMate, covering macOS and technical topics. Commenters mostly cite its post on macOS Catalina slowing app launches, plus its OpenSSL license-key post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2020-05-22
- Creating a Faster Jekyll2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-28
What Hacker News says?
The rabbit hole goes to https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d...
Comment linking /2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
on “macOS unable to open any non-Apple application”Submitted MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? as a story · 2031 points
HN discussionDude, just try it. Close your browser and monitor your network traffic. Compile a hello world with a unique text string. Run it. It calls home the first time you run it. Then it doesn't. If you are not connected to the internet, it does not call home indeed. Here is a concrete description of this experiment: https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d... I just reproduced it on a newly installed mac…
Comment linking /2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
on “Can't you just right click?”Submitted MacOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020) as a story · 174 points
HN discussionYes, this happens and it does cause slowdowns[1]. It can take several seconds to check an application if you're on a very slow internet connection. The same happens on Windows through SmartScreen, but you can easily turn that off[2] at least. As far as I know, you can't disable this on macOS. [1]: https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d... [2]: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5593-turn-off-s…
Comment linking /2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
on “Can't you just right click?”Submitted Creating a Faster Jekyll as a story · 33 points
HN discussion>adding 3-second delay to every opened app But that's exactly like the Apple ecosystem![0] [0] https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d...
Comment linking /2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
on “Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap”Submitted macOS 10.15: Slow by Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI also got an M1 Max. The chip is amazing. Compile times are a lot faster than on the 6 core Intel Mac mini I had before. But at this point it's really held back by Apple's software. Anything related to Apple ID and iCloud regularly hangs 30-60 seconds, showing a spinner with no progress indicator whatsoever. Apps randomly take 20 seconds to launch, maybe because of [1]? The Open/Save dialog taking 30 seconds to sho…
Comment linking /2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
on “Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max”Submitted macOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Mac keeps a list of (hashes of) apps that are not allowed to run. That's the XProtect blocklist, it's been around pretty long and hasn't caused any issues that I'm aware of. > bug caused it not to cache the list long enough and it started causing problems when it couldn’t phone home What changed is that since Catalina macOS additionally makes a synchronous check the first time you open an app. For certain things t…
Comment linking /2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
on “About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.1”Submitted Using OpenSSL for license keys [2004] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRidiculous, and miss out on boolean algebra and cool optimization http://sigpipe.macromates.com/2009/07/27/simplifying-boolean...
Comment linking /2009/07/27/simplifying-boolean-expressions/
on “Tim Bray doesn't know operator precedence rules”Submitted Creating a Faster Jekyll (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHave you had a look at Textmate? It uses PGP in an interesting way, http://sigpipe.macromates.com/2004/09/05/using-openssl-for-l...
Comment linking /2004/09/05/using-openssl-for-license-keys/
on “Mac App Store DRM broken (Here's how)”Submitted SIGPIPE 13 » GCC 4.5 & C++0x as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSee also Allan Odgaard’s excellent writeup “OpenSSL for license keys” from 2004: > https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2004/using-openssl-for-licens...
Comment linking /2004/using-openssl-for-license-keys/
on “Local License Key Verification”
