NSImage is formally documented as largely not thread-safe: The following classes and functions are generally not thread-safe. In most cases, you can use these classes from any thread as long as you use them from only one thread at a time. Check the class documentation for additional details. Apple’s Threading Programming Guide > Appendix A:… Read more
Every now and again I’ll go to do something really innocuous with an Apple framework, like disassemble it in Hopper or check the link headers. And every. single. time. I forget that Apple did some really weird shit in Big Sur, and removed the binaries. $ ls -lh /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/Current/AppKit ls: /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/Current/AppKit: No such file or… Read more
Failed to get a sandbox extension Right from there, you know you’re going to have a bad day. đ 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 “âExample.jpgâ couldnât be copied because you donât have permission to… Read more
I’ve been exploring SwiftData lately, and I’ve been unpleasantly surprised by how many sharp edges it has. I’m going to try to describe some of them here, so that hopefully others can avoid them (or perhaps be dissuaded from using SwiftData to begin with). I’m using Xcode 15.0.1 (Swift 5.9) on macOS 14.1 (Sonoma). Background… Read more
Note: this was written in 2021 (and updated in 2022) based on version 1 of the Oceanic+ app. In September 2023 version 2 of that app was released, and it appears to have fixed quite a few limitations (e.g. you can finally export your log book, as a standard UDDF file). Once I’ve gathered some… Read more
By default, Final Cut Pro prefers to “copy” all files on import. Indeed you’d think this is the only sensible option most of the time, since most of the time you’re importing from a memory card and you do need to make a local copy somewhere on your computer. However, Final Cut Pro has a… Read more
Ventura’s new System Settings app, replacing System Preferences, removes the ability to control quite a few important things. One of those is whether or not the system goes to sleep automatically. Well, it does let you control this setting but only for when the system is on mains power: By default the system will sleep… Read more