5 posts tagged ‘Extensions’
The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
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Paul Kafasis: In 2020, the disaster foreshadowed literally one sentence ago struck. Beta versions of MacOS 11 broke ACE, our then-current audio capture technology, and the damage looked permanent. When we spoke briefly to Apple during WWDC 2020, our appeals for assistance were flatly rejected.[…]With this in mind, we engaged in further discussions with the […]
macOS 15.1 Firewall Breaks Third-Party Firewalls
Norbert Heger: Apple’s built-in firewall is causing troubles when used together with third-party firewalls that are based on Apple’s Network Extension framework (which is actually the only way for third-party developers to create such firewall products for the Mac). While one of the issues related to DNS lookups has been fixed in macOS 15.1, a […]
Sequoia No Longer Supports QuickLook Generator Plug-ins
Howard Oakley: Prior to macOS 10.15 Catalina in 2019, the display of Thumbnails was supported by the QuickLook framework. From Catalina onwards, this is provided by a new framework named QuickLook Thumbnailing. The older framework is documented here, and had been deprecated for some years. Its replacement is documented here. To extend these, the older […]
GitHub Copilot for Xcode
Frederic Lardinois (MacRumors, Hacker News): Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for the first time. Now in public preview, this will allow developers who build apps in Apple’s IDE with the assistance of Copilot. For now, the focus here is on code completion, but Copilot Chat and its other features will likely […]
Easier Mac Audio App Installs
Paul Kafasis: As a result of changes Apple made back in MacOS 11, our apps have been stuck with a setup process that’s much more complicated than we’d like. Currently, an annoying restart is required to get going on Intel-based Macs. Setup is even more burdensome on Apple’s newest M Chip-based Macs, with multiple restarts […]