“Evanesco Iconia!”

Norbert on Mac, LaunchBar — March 24, 2026

There’s a lot not to like about the new “every menu item needs an icon” feature in macOS Tahoe. They add visual noise to the menus. They make menus more inefficient to scan. They often result in an inconsistent alignment of menu item titles.…

Should I upgrade to macOS Sequoia? (Part 2)

Christian on Little Snitch, Security, Mac — October 7, 2024

This is a follow-up to our previous recommendation advising against upgrading to macOS Sequoia 15.0. Just over two weeks after the public launch of Sequoia, Apple has released its first bugfix update (15.0.1) on October 3rd. So, should you upgrade…

macOS 10.15.1 Update Fixes Kernel Prelinking

Marco on Mac, Little Snitch — October 30, 2019

The initial release of macOS Catalina caused trouble for a lot of Little Snitch users. Updating an existing version of Little Sntich would almost always lead to a dreaded “Version Mismatch” error being shown after restarting your Mac. We…

How Kernel Prelinking Works on macOS Catalina (or not)

Christian on Mac, Little Snitch, Developer — October 11, 2019

Update on October 30, 2019: This issue is fixed in macOS 10.15.1. In this article we’d like to outline some technical details about how the installation of a kernel extension works on macOS Catalina, about potential pitfalls in this process, what…

The Story Behind CVE-2019-13013

Christian on Mac, Security, Little Snitch, Developer — August 26, 2019

This blog post targets fellow software developers. It’s a story of how it could happen that we shipped a version of Little Snitch with a serious vulnerability and, more importantly, what we can learn from it. It all began with a security…

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