Lately there was an uproar of people against the new overly simplified new macOS App Icons.

I do find the new icons less creative and less legible in a sea of same-y icons.

I’m glad somebody is taking matters into their hands, but there’s things that bother me far more (than rounded corner radii):

Exclude from Spotlight Indexing

Apple has announced a new and improved Siri and in preparation for that, they have beefed up their Spotlight indexing.

On macOS you could always just drop an empty .noindex file into any directory and it will henceforth be ignored by Spotlight indexing.

No Dot-files in Files.app

Not on iOS, where the Files.app won’t let you create Dot-files in the first place.

Even workarounds like the “Save File” Shortcut will silently ignore them (and when creating a file without shortcuts append .txt¹)

Siri Settings

Given that there is no power user reachable lever, I’d have expected to find excluded directions in the Settings.

Alas, no luck.

Custom Search Providers

Google search sucks (not as much as others, but still), has sucked for years and isn’t going to get better anytime soon.

Safari’s Search Engine setting doesn’t provide a custom option where a URL pattern like https://kagi.com/search?q=%s can be set.

This has been table stakes for decades in all other Browsers out there.