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How to normalise strings, and a new command tool to help

How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.

April 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Normalising strings in Swift: scripting Apfelstrudel and beyond

A quick tour through String normalisation, mapping closures, and a small burst of colour.

April 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: An app scaffold

A basic document-based Swift app shell into which you can quickly add functional code. Saves time starting a new project.

April 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Xcode 8.3: better in parts, more confusing in others

Does Xcode 8.3 deal with the many problems in 8.2.1? Is Swift 3.1 much better than 3.0?

March 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Finding apps, and calls that don’t fail

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Trying to decide whether a selected item is an app bundle turns out to be simple, if you cheat.

March 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Sorting with a closure

How to sort an array of arrays of strings, on the contents of one of those strings, in just 4 lines of Swift.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Reading Plists, building popups, and more

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How HelpHelp accesses a large nested Property List files, handles its data as arrays, and uses NSHelpManager.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Improving HTML from Tinderbox to Make a Better Help Book

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Tuning HTML export to produce exactly the right files, and tweaking the appearance. But can it also address a search bug?

March 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Loose ends and details

Apple will be judged by its ability to surprise us with the new, revelatory, and enabling – which have become less frequent.

March 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Implementing JSON to CSV conversion

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I’m sure there are more idiomatic or even efficient ways of doing it, but here is how I converted JSON data to CSV output.

March 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

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