Operational Semantics

Stream of consciousness investigations on the delta between intended behavior and observed execution in intelligent systems

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The Launchpad Ghost: How a Disk Cleanup Broke a Feature Apple Never Actually Removed

A routine DaisyDisk scan on my Mac Studio zeroed out two preference values, and I spent two days convinced Apple had killed Launchpad. They hadn't.

2026-05-06 8 min Part 4
Part 7

The Meta Layer

Building the Blog Itself

Part 6

The Academic Lecture Tour

Taking AI to the Ivory Tower

Part 5

The Modern Stack

Infrastructure & Industry

Part 4

Advanced Topics

Deep Dives & Case Studies

Part 3

The Automation Breakthrough

From Manual to Meta

Part 2

Discovering the Patterns

Learning Through Pain

Part 1

The Chaos Era

The Problem & The Pain