New tools for developers, scripters, and anyone who performs demanding tasks with their Mac(s).
Swift
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.
Apple tells us not to use hard-coded colours like .black, but sets the default for scrolling text views to .black, causing text to be rendered in black on dark grey when in Dark Mode. Here’s a simple and universal fix.
Why did accessing a popup menu suddenly start throwing an exception? And why doesn’t a super call handle this? Another Swift mystery solved.
Fire up your eGPUs, engage Dark Mode, and open Xcode: our Macs are once again going to be at the centre of invention and reinvention.
After 2 years, developers should be able to use the unified log for performance analysis, thanks to extensions and Xcode’s Instruments. Sysadmins and users remain neglected, though.
Adding sub-commands to write the contents of textboxes to the pasteboard: a simple task, but so easy to get hopelessly lost in it.
Adds quick copying to 6 key values, making them much easier and more efficient to paste into other apps, and fixes a bug in Save.
Provides a unique collection of info, including volfs path, inode number, extended attribute and total sizes, Base-64 encoded Bookmark, and more.
Want a non-sandboxed app to install itself in Login Items? Here’s a simple way without using a helper app.
