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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

Saturday Mac riddles 250

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roman CCL […]

April 6, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

What are UUIDs and why might I need them?

Where would you find a 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC? How UUIDs have taken over to identify so much, and how to generate your own.

April 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

A quick look at QuickLook and its problems

Thumbnails viewed in the Finder, and previews now supporting Live Text and more. But what if it runs into problems? Here’s how to diagnose and solve them.

April 5, 2024 Macs, Technology

A short history of versions

Introduced in OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011, this feature has undergone considerable change. Although it stored versions in iCloud Drive at one time, it doesn’t now.

April 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 249

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 249. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brown […]

April 1, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 249

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brown beverage […]

March 30, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Invisible Unicode and compound emoji

A collection of zero-width characters, including the joiner used to create compound emoji, and others to control ligatures and line breaks.

March 30, 2024 General, Language, Macs, Technology

What to do when offered a new FileVault Recovery Key

You’ve just updated to 14.4 or 14.4.1 and are prompted to set up a new Recovery Key for FileVault. What do you do next, and how should you check the key?

March 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today

Introduced in iOS 10.3 on 27 March 2017, then in macOS 10.13 six months later. It ups and downs, and where it still has further to go.

March 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

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