Stories, research, technical notes, and software and hardware investigations by Ighor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-5/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-5/My 2017 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, BetterTouchTool, Theine, iTerm2, OnyX, and three exclusive interviews with the people who kept these Mac apps alive.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTMac App StoriesIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/onyx-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/onyx-interview/Joël Barrière explains how OnyX grew from four checkboxes into a free Mac utility that he has maintained for more than twenty years.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:59:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/iterm2-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/iterm2-interview/George Nachman explains why he continued iTerm as iTerm2, the difficult problems inside a terminal emulator, and how he has kept it free and open source.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:58:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/theine-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/theine-interview/Martin Lexow explains how Theine became feature complete, why long-lasting design matters, and how he has supported it for more than ten years.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:57:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/why-many-app-store-apps-have-no-free-trial/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/why-many-app-store-apps-have-no-free-trial/A free trial sounds better for customers. For some one-time-purchase iPhone and Mac apps, adding one can weaken discovery and block the simplest path to institutional volume sales.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTInvestigationsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/app-archiver-free-disk-space-without-deleting-mac-apps/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/app-archiver-free-disk-space-without-deleting-mac-apps/Why I built App Archiver, how it keeps rarely used Mac apps visible, and how staged compression and restoration reclaim lasting disk space.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTApps & ToolsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/how-one-fire-tv-stick-became-ftvdb/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/how-one-fire-tv-stick-became-ftvdb/How a Fire TV Stick led from unreliable updates and logcat URLs to FTVDB, a community index of public Amazon device update metadata.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTApps & ToolsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-4/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-4/Display Menu, PopClip, Sublime Text, and WiFiSpoof, plus three exclusive interviews with the developers who kept these Mac apps alive.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTMac App StoriesIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/popclip-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/popclip-interview/Nick Moore explains how PopClip began, how its core interaction survived years of macOS changes, and why simplicity matters in long-term app development.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:59:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/display-menu-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/display-menu-interview/Thorsten Karrer explains why Display Menu was created, how Retina support was reverse engineered, and what keeps this focused Mac utility alive.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:58:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/wifispoof-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/wifispoof-interview/Russell Gray explains why WiFiSpoof began, the App Sandbox challenge, and what helped this focused Mac utility survive years of platform changes.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:57:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/xcode-27-may-end-the-golden-era-of-backward-compatible-apple-apps/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/xcode-27-may-end-the-golden-era-of-backward-compatible-apple-apps/Xcode 27 turns old deployment targets into build errors. A hidden workaround still works, but Apple may be moving backward compatibility from a developer choice to a platform rule.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTInvestigationsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/how-to-use-ai-without-losing-control-of-your-code/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/how-to-use-ai-without-losing-control-of-your-code/A practical approach to using AI for prototyping and development without losing understanding, maintainability, or responsibility for the software we build.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTApps & ToolsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-3/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-3/Find Any File, PCalc, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, and iStat Menus, plus exclusive interviews about keeping Mac apps alive for decades.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:52:54 GMTMac App StoriesIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/find-any-file-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/find-any-file-interview/Thomas Tempelmann explains the file-system knowledge behind Find Any File, the features users requested, and why it remains a one-time purchase.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:51:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/pcalc-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/pcalc-interview/James Thomson explains how PCalc began in 1992, survived major Apple platform transitions, and remained a one-time purchase.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:50:30 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/istat-menus-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/istat-menus-interview/Bjango explains how iStat Menus grew from Dashboard widgets and what it takes to support changing Mac hardware for nearly two decades.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:50:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-2/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-2/Returning to Mac with a 2014 MacBook Pro, the apps that made macOS work for me, the utilities that disappeared, and exclusive interviews with long-time Mac developers.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:25:00 GMTMac App StoriesIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/little-snitch-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/little-snitch-interview/Objective Development explains how Little Snitch changed over two decades and what keeps the team building it through major macOS transitions.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/keyboard-pilot-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/keyboard-pilot-interview/Richard Hult explains why Keyboard Pilot returned, what its modern rewrite required, and how small updates can keep an app alive for years.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/wifi-explorer-and-wifi-signal-interview/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/wifi-explorer-and-wifi-signal-interview/Adrián Granados shares how WiFi Explorer and WiFi Signal grew from a research tool into dependable apps for Wi-Fi professionals and Mac users.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMTInterviewsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-1/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/my-mac-apps-story-part-1/The first part of my Mac apps story, starting with my 2008 MacBook, my early switch from Windows to Mac OS X, and why I still use coconutBattery today.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTMac App StoriesIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/clean-uninstall-dropbox-macos-file-provider/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/clean-uninstall-dropbox-macos-file-provider/How I traced Dropbox filesystem changes on a clean macOS VM and made a dry run first script to remove Dropbox local state, caches, services, and File Provider leftovers.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTApps & ToolsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/check-macos-app-network-access/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/check-macos-app-network-access/A practical macOS security workflow for inspecting an app bundle, looking for network-capable code, and deciding what to allow before you trust an app.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTReverse EngineeringIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/welcome-to-reverse-everything/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/welcome-to-reverse-everything/A personal introduction to Reverse Everything, a blog by Ighor July about software, reverse engineering, apps, bugs, and the stories behind the tools I use and build.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSite NotesIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/parall-multi-instance-app-launcher-for-macos/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/parall-multi-instance-app-launcher-for-macos/How Parall creates native macOS app shortcuts for launching multiple independent app instances, including isolated browser and Dropbox workflows.Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTApps & ToolsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/chatgpt-for-mac-is-broken-and-support-is-worse-than-youd-expect/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/chatgpt-for-mac-is-broken-and-support-is-worse-than-youd-expect/A 2025 report on a ChatGPT for macOS freeze, OpenAI support responses, and the localization setting that caused the model selector bug.Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTInvestigationsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/the-macos-dock-nightmare-how-i-finally-stopped-it-from-jumping-between-screens/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/the-macos-dock-nightmare-how-i-finally-stopped-it-from-jumping-between-screens/A DockLock story about the long-running macOS Dock jumping problem, the first fixes in DockLock Lite and Plus, and the DockLock Pro direction.Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTApps & ToolsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/experian-sends-scam-link-via-email/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/experian-sends-scam-link-via-email/A 2024 investigation into a ProtectMyID alert email that linked to a scam domain and how identity protection alerts can become a delivery channel for phishing.Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTInvestigationsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/found-18k-games-on-nvidia-geforce-now/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/found-18k-games-on-nvidia-geforce-now/A 2021 GeForce NOW investigation into exposed catalogue metadata, more than 18,000 entries, internal apps, emulators, and unannounced game listings.Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTReverse EngineeringIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/launch-google-chrome-seatback-screen/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/launch-google-chrome-seatback-screen/A translated 2017 in-flight entertainment security report about an Android kiosk escape and the disclosure effort that followed.Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTInvestigationsIghor Julyhttps://reverseeverything.com/blog/recursive-windows-shortcuts/https://reverseeverything.com/blog/recursive-windows-shortcuts/A translated 2012 Windows experiment about recursive shortcut folders, Explorer crashes, and the risks of treating interface glitches as file protection.Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMTReverse EngineeringIghor July