My 2024 Code Styleguide

I just visited the Lesser Antilles for the first time, specifically the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, during the first week of December 2024.

As a certified Hacker News addict (like Slashdot before it), I see a lot of open source projects get publicly announced.

I have a theory that I believe is supported by enough evidence for you to believe it, as well.

Preface: I don’t use iCloud. I don’t use an Apple ID. I don’t use the Mac App Store. I don’t store photos in the macOS “Photos” application, even locally. I never opted in to Apple network services of any kind - I use macOS software on Apple hardware.

In the current version of macOS, Monterey, on every system update on a system containing an M1 chip, such as all the new shiny/fast ARM (“Apple Silicon”) macs, the update process phones home to Apple to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a “ticket”.