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 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
There’s a couple of bugs in Stellaris, that have been present for year(s), where the AI inexplicably builds absurd numbers of construction and/or science ships, then has them sit idle forever. This AI behaviour would be merely eccentric if it didn’t cause major performance issues with the game. For the case of too many science… Read more
I don’t know why, but it’s apparently impossible to directly import a Lightroom catalog from one computer into the catalog of another. It always fails at the end of the import with the same infuriatingly useless error message. However, I seem to have found a fairly reliable workaround: In my experience you must perform the… Read more
Swift makes it relatively easy to format numbers as byte counts, with appropriate suffixes to indicate units and generally sensible auto-selection of scale factors. e.g.: 1 kB (in English – results may vary depending on locale) This is just a small subset of Swift’s FormatStyle-based formatting capabilities, with which I have a bit of a… Read more
How do you determine if one string starts with another, in Swift? Surely that’s exactly what the hasPrefix(_:) method is for: No can haz etiquette? Wot? The problem is that hasPrefix is not meant for general use with human text; it’s barely better than a byte-wise comparison. It only guarantees that it won’t be fooled… Read more