Aussie student interns savour Cupertino

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That was the curious choice of grabline for the article in Wheels for the Mind, the AUC’s magazine, about the Apple internship experience had by Ashley Butterworth, Brett Brooks, and myself. Wheels for the Mind 2006 (Autumn) (cached) They even put a picture of me on the cover, which seems mean [to their readers]. This… Read more

Mac app sandboxing interferes with drag & drop

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Failed to get a sandbox extension Right from there, you know you’re going to have a bad day. 😔 Then you try to actually use the file dropped on your app, and you get: Upload preparation for claim 1C0F9013-4DEB-4E5D-8896-F522AA979BA6 completed with error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 ““Example.jpg” couldn’t be copied because you don’t have permission to… Read more

No more Dark Mode support

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For about a month I was using WP Dark Mode. I don’t really recall how I thought upon it to begin with, but I vaguely recall choosing to install it because it seemed kind to support dark mode. Even though I don’t use it myself, it does seem to have a non-trivial following. And I… Read more

Image workflow for WordPress

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Screenshot of the Image Tool+ main window, showing a bunch of image format conversions in progress

These are the main tools and procedures I use for publishing images through WordPress. In case it’s helpful to others. My input images generally fall into three categories: Some of these formats can be published directly into WordPress – mainly PNG and JPEG – but not all, and neither PNG nor JPEG are the best… Read more

Swift code syntax highlighting in WordPress

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The built-in “code” block for WordPress (the CMS I use for this site) is virtually useless – it’s just a <pre> block, essentially. The appearance may vary depending on WordPress theme, but will virtually always be bland. In fact, it’s not even guaranteed to use a monospaced font – the example I’ve shown here is… Read more