… 9 bad.horse (162.252.205.130) 62.196 ms 63.390 ms 63.267 ms10 bad.horse (162.252.205.131) 67.397 ms 69.556 ms 71.085 ms11 bad.horse (162.252.205.132) 70.426 ms 74.513 ms 75.403 ms12 bad.horse (162.252.205.133) 75.012 ms 78.834 ms 86.565 ms13 he.rides.across.the.nation (162.252.205.134) 80.596 ms 88.400 ms 81.847 ms14 the.thoroughbred.of.sin (162.252.205.135) 97.466 ms 94.171 ms 87.484 ms15 he.got.the.application (162.252.205.136) 92.750 ms 94.187… Read more
For nearly a month now, Backblaze has been fixated on a particular file of mine, that happens to be over 1 TB in size. Backblaze seemingly uploads it completely, but then on the next backup it uploads it again, even though it has not changed (in eight years!). Ad infinitum. Using their Explainfile tool to… Read more
This post is mostly to herald a pretty good Apple bug report response, which as we know is a too-rare event. But it might also help others with this confusing SwiftUI API. What’s the difference between presentedWindowStyle(_:) and windowStyle(_:)? Well, one does something, the other doesn’t, basically. I tried using the former, and observed that… Read more
This is a public reposting of FB14893699, in case it’s helpful to anyone else or especially in case someone else has seen this too and knows how to work around it. If any view in the [active] window contains a Toggle – even one that’s disabled or hidden – then Continuity Camera (re. ImportFromDevicesCommands and… Read more
This is a public reposting of FB14885505, in case it’s helpful to anyone else or especially in case someone else has seen this too and knows how to work around it. NSPasteboard mutates itself simultaneously from the main thread and the global concurrent Dispatch pool, w.r.t. to its internal type cache. This is surprisingly trivial… Read more
Sometimes you just need to shove a round peg into a square hole. Sometimes that genuinely is the best option (or perhaps more accurately: the least bad option). I find my hand is often forced by APIs I don’t control (most often Apple’s APIs). e.g. data source or delegate callbacks that are synchronous and require… Read more
Famously, Google used to have a practice dubbed “20% time”: about one day a week, engineers were {expected ⊻ encouraged ⊻ permitted ⊻ tolerated ⊻ known} to work on something other than their nominal work; something they themselves chose. Circa 2011, not long after I joined Google, I pitched a 20% project idea to my… Read more