New updates to these apps fix crashing bugs when using styled log display, or converting log excerpts to CSV (Consolation).
JSON
Structuring, parsing, and styling text is not difficult when you use Swift 3 as your scripting language.
I’m sure there are more idiomatic or even efficient ways of doing it, but here is how I converted JSON data to CSV output.
Making progress with Consolation version 2: working out how to export useful data from JSON log excerpts. A punch-up in the Swift Playground.
JSON is a popular standard for data obtained from internet sources. How well is it supported by spreadsheets? And two major upgrades: Tinderbox 7 and Dash 4.
How to import complete log extracts into Excel or Numbers, using R as a conversion platform. It’s a bit convoluted, but it works.
Sierra’s new logs have new uses, such as collecting and analysing test and use data – only if you can import log extracts into a suitable app.
Armed with your signing certificate, this final article launches you on the path to developing your own content-blocker.
You can still develop your own content-blockers without a signing certificate – but there are limitations.
Apple has just changed the means by which you can develop your own content-blockers.