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…and likely any other app that supports auto-document versioning in macOS.

A developer on Mastodon posted a query: I want to use some C++ code from a Swift Package, so I: 1) Added a target with the C++ code 2) Added an umbrella header 3) Added this new target as a dependency to the client target 4) Import the new module in the c…

I saw a thread by Dr.

Priced out the impressive looking Mac Studio Apple just released and wow it adds up fast when you max out the RAM and get the max processor The top of the line new Mac Studio M3 Ultra (32-core CPU, 80-core GPU) with 512G RAM (!)

Lavender Shortbread Cookies Variations: Chocolate chunks + hot red chili pepper (ground up) (Weight is Double / Single batch) 250g / 125g | 4.5oz Sugar 450g / 225g | 8oz Unsalted butter, softened (room temp) 600g / 300g | 10.5oz plain flour (whole wheat p…

A post I made on Mastodon as advice to a younger indie app developer based on my three decades of experience working for smaller software businesses – mostly as a freelance software engineer – and watching which ones succeeded and which ones did not: A go…

Recently wanted to make a better version of an irrigation part I bought that just doesn’t work well and so diving into 3d printing again.

A poem that influenced my life, though I knew it naught until today when I read an email from my step dad and just now read it.

Some may remember stories of the bus conversion of a 1980s transit bus (Gillig Phantom, if you’re into that sort of thing) I did (with some help) and how our family (Geek was only a year old!

Context: Making a new bootable backup of my 13″ M1 MBP before upgrading macOS and taking advantage of the fact that SuperDuper!

Looking for the exploded view of an electric saw I need to take apart and found some design sketches for a desk I made myself – has dimensions for a Macintosh IIci for the computer area The other funny thing is the sketches are on the back of ImageWriter…

The Feedback Assistant iOS app is visible and acts like a normal app on beta builds of iOS, but it’s hidden in release versions of iOS.

I told someone I’d just eaten half an ice cream sandwich and they said they were impressed.

When you use AirDrop to move an image from your iOS device to your Mac macOS adds some metadata that made me uncomfortable.

I have too many windows open in Safari (416 tabs in 133 windows currently – yah, I wrote an AppleScript to count those ).

Had occasion to use a SwiftUI ScrollView today and ran into the issue where the SwiftUI team decided to use one of the two most sensible defaults for initial presentation when the content is too large to fit in the container – center the content.

Here so I can find it again from:username to:username // to username @username // mentioning @username keyword // can be a #hashtag -keyword keyword OR keyword min_retweets: x min_faves: x min_replies: x filter:links filter:images

So I was sad the WordPress macOS “app” is just an Electron app that wraps the website with a few macOS menu items to jump to specific pages on the site.

PSA: For a great macOS app experience, the details matter.

Chatting with one of my sisters and she remarked upon our mother’s Amazon book buying … addiction?