macOS is now largely undocumented. It’s time to do the job ourselves: what about an open collaborative project?
Sierra
Signposts from Sierra 10.12.6 recording key steps when logging in, out, and fast user switching. And a fascinating process which serialises its log entries.
What do you do when you open a document, only to find that the wrong app opens it? Here’s how to tackle that and more.
Digging into macOS Sierra and its logs to examine how Recent Items works. Useful insights into Launch Services, and potential historical info about documents opened.
It’s a System Prefs problem. No, a preferences file problem. No, it’s something else, but Apple once again won’t tell us how Recent Items works, or doesn’t.
Apple has today pushed another silent update to the security data files for macOS Sierra and OS X […]
How much more difficult is it to write your own code to handle user preferences, rather than letting UserDefaults handle them?
Developers should consider letting users export and import suites of settings, to determine an app’s persona, or flavours of working environment.
Adds the ability to export and import libraries of custom predicates, styles, and filters to property list files, independently of preferences – a leap forward.
Which String.contains() variant should you use, and how can you give access to regex searching? More answers coded in Swift 3.1.
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