254 posts tagged ‘Mac’
Deleting Unused Photos From Apple Photos
mjtsai,
I’ve been trying to reduce the storage that the Photos app uses, both on my Mac and in iCloud. I use Lightroom for my photo library, so I would like to delete all the photos that are not referenced by projects (calendars and photo books). Unfortunately, Photos is unable to display any of my projects […]
Swift Concurrency in Real Apps
Bryan Jones: Consider this code, wherein we create a custom NSTableColumn that uses an image instead of a String as its header. Holly Borla posted a fix that special-cases NSObject.init(): Now, overriding NSObject.init() within a @MainActor-isolated type is difficult-to-impossible, especially if you need to call an initializer from an intermediate superclass that is also @MainActor-isolated. […]
SwiftUWhy
John Siracusa: Welcome to my new series on things I don’t understand about Apple’s premier user interface framework.[…]To be clear, these are things I don’t understand, not necessarily things that are “wrong.” They sure look wrong (or at least “suboptimal”) to me! But maybe there are good reasons, and I just don’t know them yet. […]
Cascable Studio Rejected From the App Store
Daniel Kennett: I’ve been shipping apps to the App Store for well over fifteen years now, and although there are App Review horror stories aplenty, I’ve always hoped I’d never be in a position to write one myself.[…]What you just scrolled past was the history of my (eventually successful) attempt to get the new Mac […]
Acorn 8
Gus Mueller (release notes): “Select Subject”, “Mask Subject”, and “Remove Background” are new commands which use machine learning (or A.I. if you prefer) to find the most important parts of your image, and then perform their respective operations.[…]Acorn 8 now has an on canvas ruler which you can use to measure out distances, straighten your […]
Sequoia Fixes App Store Update Notifications
Adam Engst: Starting in macOS 12 Monterey, clicking an update notification did nothing. Before that, it opened the App Store app, though only to the main screen, not the Updates screen. It was frustrating, and unnecessarily so.In Sequoia, however, Apple finally made this notification work as it should. When a notification informs you that updates […]
The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
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 […]
Issues Adopting Swift Testing
I’m in the process of migrating from XCTest to Swift Testing. The basic stuff is pretty easy to translate, and in many cases I don’t even need to change the code inside my test methods. I’ve long been writing what Swift Testing calls expectations in terms of my own helper functions such as eq(), unwrap(), […]