The moment you start writing apps that work with documents, you’ll need to know how to use UTIs. That requires inspired searching, guesswork, and trial and error.
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I realised that almost everything listed in my Downloads page was still in beta. Finishing off is important, and requires a proper Help book.
While we were getting worried about Signal’s notifications leak, POPSS was quietly making almost every major operating system vulnerable – because of poor documentation.
Frustrated by the lack of information in Apple’s security release notes? You’re not alone. Over the last year, they have become almost worthless.
Apple Support has to be wonderful now because there’s hardly anywhere else to go to find out about our Macs and other Apple products.
Apple should name macOS version with literary references. Here’s the justification for macOS 10.14 Gormenghast.
2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.
Long-awaited, this new book tries to cover most of the ground that the advanced Mac user, developer, sysadmin, or support person needs to understand.
They may not cause many problems, but xattrs are both very useful and extensively used by macOS and third-party products. It’s time to discover more, and document them.
A simple and concise example of a page from the documentation which we, as a community, could readily produce for macOS. Fancy giving us a hand?
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