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Quick Actions 4: How they work

The built-in Quick Actions and those bundled in installed apps are managed by the daemon pkd, and PlugInKit. Not so Automator workflows, though.

February 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Quick Actions 3: The problem of Undo

The problem of Undo is a major consideration when building or using any Quick Action, Automator workflow, AppleScript, or other lightweight solution.

February 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Scripting in Swift: Process deprecations

Calling command tools from Swift changes with macOS 10.13 and 10.14 with the deprecation of some of the Process class. Solutions aren’t as clean as they should be.

February 2, 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

Preparing to upgrade to Mojave: Scripting, commands, and development

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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.

September 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Privacy + Scripting = Problems

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.

September 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Working with Mojave’s Privacy Protection

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.

September 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection, command tools, and scripts

How can third-party command tools access files under Mojave’s new privacy protection? Isn’t this going to be a nightmare?

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Updates all round to Blowhole, RouteMap, and the Signpost Kit

At last: RouteMap performs some analysis on your Signposts, and with the other tools can be used to estimate latency, and look at macOS system performance too.

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Blowhole 7 works around an Xcode bug, and is included in an updated Signpost Kit

Blowhole 7 now writes proper Signposts in Mojave, as well as Pseudo-Signposts in Sierra and High Sierra.

August 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

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