I strongly suspect Claude’s Mac app is written by Claude. That’s not a compliment. There’s the non-native GUI, though of course that doesn’t tell you much in this day and age. It’s obviously just Chromium or something similar (hell, you can right-click on some things and they still have the “Inspect Element” contextual menu item,… Read more
Ugh, this one caused me days of head-scratching. If you run that command sequence, you’ll find that it makes the SSH connection and then exits immediately – and it kills the background job (sleep 15) as it exits. Which I find intuitive if only because that’s obviously how it’s always worked. But now run it… Read more
From the department of “how did I not realise this sooner?!”: Yes, Swift treats the two bytes “\r\n” as a single character. This is actually super convenient a lot of the time, because it means algorithms that look for line breaks with isNewline just work, even on “Windows”-style text. Otherwise, you’d have to explicitly look… Read more
AVPlayer doesn’t provide a built-in way to fade in or out. I previously described how you achieve a video fade-in (or out) using general CoreAnimation layer animation, as part of making a macOS screen saver. Now let’s tackle the audio. I’m not certain what curve this implements, but to my ears it doesn’t sound quite… Read more
This is pretty rudimentary, but apparently our robot overlords need me to write this post because many of them suggested some truly bizarre approaches, some of which don’t work at all. If you’re using AVQueuePlayer, then just use AVPlayerLooper. Easy. But if for some reason you want to use AVPlayer specifically (e.g. you need to… Read more
First, make sure you really want to. macOS’s screen saver system is absurdly buggy and broken. It’s frustrating to work with and very difficult to make work right. If you’re determined, read on. Screen savers are basically just applications. Same bundle format and structure, just with a “saver” extension instead of “app”. Setting up the… 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