Mojave’s privacy features remain essentially undocumented. Apple hasn’t explained how command tools negotiate TCC’s protection. Why not, and what should we do?
Category Archive: Macs
Calling command tools from Swift changes with macOS 10.13 and 10.14 with the deprecation of some of the Process class. Solutions aren’t as clean as they should be.
Apple has intentionally made it very hard to troubleshoot problems with privacy protection. Here’s a new feature to help, in a new version of Taccy.
Due to a sudden torrent of comment spam, I have had to block adding comments to articles older […]
Can you sign AppleScript apps in Script Editor? Is there a better tool? What’s the best way to sign a command tool developed in Xcode?
It has been one of the oldest problems on Macs, when a document shows with the wrong icon. Why, and how to fix it?
One important requirement for code signatures is with Mojave’s new privacy controls. Are they needed, though?
You try to open a document – in this case, one of Firefox’s bookmarks – and nothing happens. What could be wrong? It turns out it’s a bug, of course. But where?
A broken Combo updater, and total lack of release notes (even for developers) may make 10.14.3 look bad, but as development of 10.15 gathers pace, prospects are good for macOS.
Why do the Open File and Save File dialogs normally behave differently with respect to tagged folders? It’s a question of semantics.
