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Code in Assembly for Apple Silicon with the AsmAttic app

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First in a series helping you write ARM64 assembly language for M1 Macs. Provides an app within which you can call assembly routines.

June 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

How abysmal SMB performance can choke networked backups

How can it take over 5 hours to back up 79 GB of files to a network share? That’s an average transfer rate of 4 MB/s, probably slower than your Internet connection.

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code-signing requirements for scripts and apps in Big Sur

Does Big Sur require you to sign your own apps or other code using a proper Apple-issued signature? What about notarization and quarantine? Your questions answered.

February 18, 2021 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

Bluetooth utilities to help diagnose disconnections

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Tools to help you discover the cause of Bluetooth disconnections, by assessing the link quality and more. For both Intel and M1 Macs.

January 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

How big is Xcode?

The answer could be anything from 15 to 32 GB. Maybe the Finder’s just having a wild guess? Numbers courtesy of Big Sur and APFS.

November 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

The non-Universal binary: a cautionary tale

Identical code using system_profiler to look up the firmware version number worked in two apps but failed in a third. The solution was obscure.

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has revealed macOS version numbering following Big Sur

Which is the next ‘major’ release of macOS after Big Sur, then? Will it return to the numbering system before Mac OS X with 12.0, or 11.1?

November 5, 2020 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

Last Week on My Mac: Two thousand yard stare

In just three days last week, Apple released nine major products which demanded the attention of independent developers. How did that work out, then?

September 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

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