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Last Week on My Mac: SwiftUI wrangling

SwiftUI is almost five years old. Following experience porting an AppKit app for macOS to SwiftUI, it still has a long way to go. Here’s the current state of play.

April 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

An A to Z of keys and keyboards: Keyboard commands

How the keyboard can be used for commands, from its reserved keys, to key equivalents, interface controls, and keyboard actions.

December 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

TextEdit goes out of its way to destroy data

TextEdit will happily trash an HTML file when you convert it to text – without any good reason, other than an engineer not being familiar with macOS.

May 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

macOS coding beyond the books: basic menu control

Simple: when running on older macOS, remove some items from the app menu. The solution is also straightforward, just very hard to locate.

December 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

log: a primer on predicates

How to use predicates to filter out log entries, and obtain more concise and useful log extracts.

October 17, 2016 Macs, Technology
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