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Last Week on My Mac: From assembly to Shortcuts

How little has changed in using assembly language over the last 30+ years. But what about Swift Playgrounds 4, which will let iPads create apps for the App Store?

June 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Can you trust floating-point arithmetic on Apple Silicon?

M1 Macs may be as fast as greased lightning, but how good is their numerical accuracy? Can it match that of Intel processors?

April 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Can you trust Numbers with numbers?

Numbers has a lightweight interface and is easy to use. But does it handle numbers as accurately as Excel, or maths environments like Matlab?

March 15, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Publishing code in WordPress articles

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Customising WordPress to lay out source code turned into HTML by Codye.

January 25, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How macOS schedules and dispatches background tasks using CTS 3

What does it take for an app to have ‘activities’ managed for efficiency by CTS? Not a lot – but in return, the management is a black box.

October 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

How to tell Electron and Catalyst apps

Does that app use Electron, Catalyst, SwiftUI, AppKit, or is it an iPhone app? How to find out easily.

October 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apps on the ultimate diet: beyond stripping Universals

Can you strip all Intel executables from a Universal App to make it even smaller? What benefits might there be in building an app for Big Sur only?

July 31, 2020 Macs, Technology

Origins of the Mac human interface, and starting macOS coding

A firsthand account of how the Mac human interface was developed 40 years ago for the Lisa, and resources for learning to code for macOS.

April 11, 2020 Macs, Technology

Are you running macOS before Mojave 10.14.4? Do you use command tools?

Downloading runtime support from Apple can save you wondering why a tool appears to be broken.

August 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Checking and downloading updates automatically in Swift

Source code workthrough of one method of checking for and automatically downloading updates to an app, in Swift 5 for macOS 10.11-10.14.

June 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

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