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McKinley, the SF Symbols editor I've been building, has a preview panel.

I’ve had a few people asking me how I automate taking screenshots of my Mac app for imposing PDFs, Octavo (now live on the Mac app store!).

In this post, John Gruber discusses how Apple dropped the ball by pre-announcing a feature that doesn’t exist yet in any semblance of a demoable form.

TextKit has the option to truncate the last line of text if there’s more text than will fit in the container.

I built a castle for my guinea pigs.

In early 2019, I went skiing for the second time in my life.

Last summer, I was producer for Grosvenor Light Opera Company’s production of Pirates of Penzance.

It’s been a long time coming.

I used to really dislike the door-slam dialog boxes that many apps pop up when they’re updated, saying “Please rate my app”.

I wanted to make a popup date picker for my app, like so: Since I wanted it to slide up onto the screen like the keyboard, my immediate thought was to use an inputView and an inputAccessoryView to construct it.

The other day, I created a flyer for my opera society’s upcoming play.

I’m on a train again.

I haven’t posted much here recently.

I’m working with the Scripting Bridge and AppleScript-ObjC at the moment, so expect a longer article soon!

I wear a Pebble.

After learning about Key Value Observing, you might be wondering if there is any way of automatically keep two properties synchronised.

Table cell height is one of the tricky bits of UITableView.

It’s prediction time again: Apple have sent an invitation for their October event.

At iOSDevUK last week, I gave a talk on making templateable apps — that is, apps with a single codebase but different content, theming or features.

This is a quickie, but I thought I’d write up a small stumbling block that I encountered.