Advice on preparing for and using Mojave for all who go beyond using standard off-the-shelf apps – scripting, automating, building from source, or full-blown Xcode development.
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Control of one app by another is an important but difficult aspect of Mojave’s new privacy controls. Here’s how it handles that at present, and some of the issues it raises.
For many users, privacy controls in Mojave will pass almost unnoticed. Here are tips for those who have greater demands, and want their apps to access protected data.
If you’re running Mojave and using a scripting language which can’t itself access Signposts, Blowhole now gives you access to them.
Why did accessing a popup menu suddenly start throwing an exception? And why doesn’t a super call handle this? Another Swift mystery solved.
Fire up your eGPUs, engage Dark Mode, and open Xcode: our Macs are once again going to be at the centre of invention and reinvention.
After 2 years, developers should be able to use the unified log for performance analysis, thanks to extensions and Xcode’s Instruments. Sysadmins and users remain neglected, though.
Adding sub-commands to write the contents of textboxes to the pasteboard: a simple task, but so easy to get hopelessly lost in it.
Want a non-sandboxed app to install itself in Login Items? Here’s a simple way without using a helper app.
When you want software to run automatically each time you Mac starts up, there are several ways of doing that. Here’s your choice.
