Brian Ward

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:52:39 -0700

Boat ride! ⚓️

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:12:47 -0700

Splashdown! 🚀

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:13:54 -0700

I hit that Mail bug again on iOS. Been careful since to only multiselect messages that are unread, but there’s definitely a problem with the state of the button toggle. It erroneously presented me with a Mark as Unread button.

Re: micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/04/0…

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:08:47 -0700

I wish I’d had NFOViewer back at Runic. Before I went to bed, I added a global search feature. This was finicky to get working at first, but it works. The other issue I had to fix was when filtering thousands of items, I’d hit a deadlock while rendering the UI, but we debounce and stream in now.

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:03:24 -0700

In past support roles, I always preferred working from a Mac, but those pesky Windows System Information (*.NFO) files kept getting in the way. So tonight I built NFOViewer, a simple macOS app that opens them with zero friction.

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:00:22 -0700

Tonight I went through the process of bringing the classic Mac OS X app Backhoe (a terrain editor for Second Life) all the way from Objective-C and AppKit on Mac OS X 10.4 (PPC) over to Swift, Apple Silicon, modern macOS – and running on the iPad!

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:33:53 -0700

Fats Navarro w/ Don Lanphere www.youtube.com/watch 🎵 It blows my mind that I studied with Don and knew him a little bit. He was a musically-demanding perfectionist, but was a good guy with a kind heart. He used to tell me how much he and Charlie Parker hated Paul Desmond. 😆

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:58:05 -0700

Anybody else notice an annoying little hitch lately when dragging and dropping files on macOS, like into Claude or a web browser drop zone?

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:42:27 -0700

Got an old project up and running again in a docker container tonight. Hello, old friend!

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:25:14 -0700

It’d be real sweet if Mail got an update sometime to make marking all messages as read not suck. Twice this year I have inadvertently flagged all messages on all my accounts by mistake, usually due to some kind of UI lag bug on the iPad.

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:58:19 -0700

Last weekend visiting the cherry blossoms at the UW campus.

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:52:54 -0700

We went to a No Kings protest yesterday afternoon in Ballard.

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:30:49 -0700

First time at opening week! A good effort tonight even if we didn’t win. ⚾️

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:45:26 -0700

Some news from my jobby job: We shipped Camelot Unchained into early access yesterday! 🎉 massivelyop.com/2026/03/2…

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:55:01 -0700

Love it. Ship it on Windows and Linux too, please. webkit.org/blog/1786…

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:49:42 -0700

I’ve heard that the A18 Pro is basically a tiny M1, so my hope is that the MacBook Neo pushes Apple to focus a little bit more on performance improvements to accommodate some of the older Apple Silicon out there.

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:37:10 -0700

Jerry Bergonzi Quintet livestream from earlier today 🎷 www.youtube.com/watch

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:32:07 -0700

A minor annoying visual bug on the iPhone lock screen in 26.3.1 (a). Should I be filing a Radar?

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:03:37 -0700

Do you think that someday through some combination of AirPlay and other magic, those overpowered Apple displays that have A-series processors in them might one day be able to let you walk up to any random display and keyboard setup and just magically run macOS wherever you go right off your phone?

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:58:19 -0700

I continue to wonder when the hell Spotify is going to ship a basic yet somehow novel accessibility feature called light mode. 🤔

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:25:13 -0700

I was already into computers, so I got tapped to make a webpage to promote the CD. The obscenely long URL for which is printed on the back of the jewel case. One notable 90s quirk is that URLs often would often end in htm instead of html. I think this was because I made it on Windows 3.1!

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:14:07 -0700

When I was a kid, our 6th grade class recorded an album. My dad worked for Muzak, and was able to pull in some favors to assist with its production. The result aired nationally in every McDonald’s for a period of time. Someone’s selling a copy on eBay right now: www.ebay.com/itm/32665…

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:20:22 -0700

I’m just getting around to watching the Apple at 50 event with David Pogue at the Computer History Museum. It’s super entertaining! www.youtube.com/watch

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:52:13 -0700

The OOBE and Windows Update experience is patently awful. I’m really not exaggerating. See for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:53:30 -0700

A lower entry point to the Mac will increase its market share and push Apple to focus on polish. Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo has rebooted the PC war at a time where Apple has footholds everywhere: www.theverge.com/report/89…