Wade Tregaskis

Sometimes when I tell macOS to empty the bin (“trash” if you’re United Statesian) it refuses with a baffling error message: I have no idea what causes this.

While perusing Jef Raskin’s documents from the early days of Apple (1979 predominately), I came across a curious one: a “calculator” language that Jef proposed.

Opus 4.8 and earlier use a 1M token context window (on any paid plan, at least).

In short: if you have any file in your app (or whatever it is you’re trying to get Apple to sign) that is over 4 GiB, you must use a disk image (DMG) to package it for notarytool, not a zip file.

This is a summary of the Swift Evolution Proposals that are marked as Implemented in 6.4.

I strongly suspect Claude’s Mac app is written by Claude.

I’ll cut to the chase: it’s a nice resolution upgrade from an Apple or LG 5k display.

Ugh, this one caused me days of head-scratching. $ ssh somehost somehost$ sleep 15 & somehost$ exit $ ssh somehost somehost$ sleep 15 & somehost$ exit If you run that command sequence, you’ll find that it makes the SSH connection and then exits immediately

From the department of “how did I not realise this sooner?!”

It’s very clear that Apple were going for peak brightness above all else.

Studio Display XDR Pro Display XDR Screen diagonal 69 cm 81 cm (+17%) Resolution 5,120 ⨉ 2,880 6,016 ⨉ 3,384 Pixel count 14,745,600 20,358,144 (+38%) Backlight zones 2,304 (+300%) 576 Pixel density 218 218 Contrast ratio 1,000,000 : 1 1,000,000 : 1 Peak s…

It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a pithy and accurate representation of what it’s like being an Apple Mac & iPhone user these days (well done Nick Hodulik!).

I’m not using macOS 26 Tahoe yet – hopefully I’ll never have to; 🤞 the next version of macOS is less of a dumpster fire, and I’ll just skip Tahoe entirely.

When you drop a Cross Dissolve transition onto a clip in Final Cut Pro it applies the transition to both video and audio.

It is possible to use the Tascam Portacapture X8 as an ADC, input converter, and mixing board for an iPhone, but there’s a few things you’ll need to know.

It appears that each time tethering is enabled or disabled on the iPhone, it disconnects Image Capture.

This is basically a short written set of instructions derived from Cody Wanner‘s YouTube video on the topic, refined a little for simplicity and updated for the newer GUI in more recent versions of Final Cut Pro.

Surprisingly, the best way (that I’ve found) to do this is to use The Unarchiver, a free app from MacPaw (the folks behind SetApp and many other things).

AVPlayer doesn’t provide a built-in way to fade in or out.

This is pretty rudimentary, but apparently our robot overlords need me to write this post because many of them suggested some truly bizarre approaches, some of which don’t work at all.

The error “com.apple.ImageCaptureCore error -9934” during import (e.g. from an iPhone) can be caused by a lot of things, according to the Internet: Permission errors with the destination folder (e.g. not writable by the current user).

First, make sure you really want to. macOS’s screen saver system is absurdly buggy and broken.

I recently replaced a horrible, dodgy Zoom H4n with a Tascam Portacapture X8, for recording (primarily) theatre and music performances.

Apple does provide these instructions, although they were annoyingly hard to find (in no small part because the page title is only incidentally related to the task).

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