It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a pithy and accurate representation of what it’s like being an Apple Mac & iPhone user these days (well done Nick Hodulik!). The externalities cost estimates might be a little tongue-in-cheek, but honestly, are they all that wrong? One small irritation at the wrong moment can ricochet… Read more
It appears that each time tethering is enabled or disabled on the iPhone, it disconnects Image Capture. So if you have spotty cellular service – because perhaps you live in the United States, where that’s the only kind of cellular service on offer – you might find that happens so often that you can’t complete… Read more
This is basically a short written set of instructions derived from Cody Wanner‘s YouTube video on the topic, refined a little for simplicity and updated for the newer GUI in more recent versions of Final Cut Pro. So feel free to view that video if you prefer that medium. I just find I 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
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
NSCopyObject is a very old Foundation function – pre-dating Mac OS X entirely; from the NeXT era – that was originally basically just memcpy, but now it’s complicated. A lot more complicated… Read more