I must admit, the Messages team have done a somewhat good job of making Messages pretend to be a native Mac app, at least in my experience – most of the time it works as it should. But then it’s a very simple app which I use in a pretty limited fashion. Even so, there… Read more
This is a linker warning I see frequently since Xcode 15.0. It appears it’s a result of Apple’s new linker, “ld_prime”, which replaced “ld64” that was in use [by Apple] since around 2005 (per Quinn the Eskimo). ☝️ “ld_prime” might be an internal code name, or perhaps is just Quinn’s personal nomenclature. The actual binary… Read more
I really wish Swift releases would stop having major regressions in the ability to parse non-trivial expressions. The installation of a new version of Xcode – with a corresponding new Swift version & toolchain – should be a joyous occasion, not one I increasingly dread.
I’ve been getting this notification every morning, on both my Macs, for several days now. System Settings says Private Relay is active like normal, even so. Yet Mail refuses to load any images in emails. Yet Safari works fine. So it’s not at all apparent if Private Relay actually is working or not. Sometime during… Read more
macOS Sonoma is in so many ways a dumpster fire. It’s the worst Apple OS update I can remember (although admittedly there’s been some real stinkers over the years, so maybe I’m overlooking some repressed memories). There was of course the bug whereby encrypted external drives no longer mounted automatically. That was pretty special, because… 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
Apple “Feedback” #12149764. According to man 3 getifaddrs: The ifa_dstaddr field references the destination address on a P2P interface, if one exists, otherwise it contains the broadcast address. In my testing the ifa_dstaddr field is never non-null. I’m not sure I have any suitably configured P2P interfaces, but I definitely have interfaces with broadcast capabilities… Read more