Dear Rick, would you please find me a universe where Jef Raskin's teachings are still observed? #BigSur.

RT @depth42: When I then open my actual project, Xcode does not crash because then the NSSpellChecker singleton has already been created. P….

RT @Sam_Ohanaware: macOS Sequoia issue: Mail no longer displays an unread count in the dock, any ideas how to get this useful information b….

RT @smartgithg: We finally have an introduction video for SmartGit! 🚀 Good things take time -- but it's worth the wait. ✔️ Choose the wind….

Caution, users of @signalapp: When you lose your phone or it breaks, there's no way to get your old messages back on your new phone, even if you restore from a backup. All conversations lost :(.This is needless "security" for me.

RT @Sam_Ohanaware: SwiftUI macOS pragmatically showing an open or save panel as a sheet. #SwiftUI #macOS. https://t….

Eventually I had it rewritten in ObjC around 2017, and am still improving its features (like scripted match functions and server-side search). My thanks go to users and supporters of FAF, as they allow me to continue my passion of filling software gaps that Apple left for us 😁.

Find Any File (for macOS) 2.5.6 is now out. This celebrates 20 years of FAF. First version of FAF, made in REALbasic (Xojo), came out 2005, for free. But users kept asking to pay me for it, so I eventually offered it on the MAS when it opened 2010, which was quite a success.

RT @howardnoakley: Tahoe developer beta 1 IPSW installs and runs fine in a VM on Sequoia (e.g. with my own Viable), but 'needs additional c….

RT @Sam_Ohanaware: SwiftUI macOS sheet dialog buttons, how to meet the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. #swiftUI….

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RT @atow: Macintouch pauses after 31 years. Brent Simmons retires. Plus: a look ahead to WWDC 25 and my pre-conference gathering in San Jos….

RT @TacticalGrace: I’m building a new development environment for macOS. The current focus is on Haskell support, but it also supports Agda….

Oops - there was also this already:

Yay, someone finally made an NSKeyedArchiver-to-Dictionary converter. I've been waiting for that for over a decade. Thank you, one of the many Michael Wright!.

RT @Sam_Ohanaware: macOS Vibrancy in SwiftUI made Mac apps. Shows you how to get it and how to match AppKit made Mac apps. .

The chat person from PostNL did not even care to forward this as an issue but right out insisted that it's not their problem. Great attitude. Just ignore any potential issues and let the customers deal with them on their own.

Just had a bad exchange with @PostNL customer support where I was trying to tell them about misleading tracking information on their website. Basically, their website told me that my delivery is ready for pickup, when it, in fact, is not – it's at German customs.

BTW, I asked ChatGPT and it suggested to use a separate helper process for this. Might be safer.

To clarify: This only happens if the QL plugin has a bug, which the AddressBook plugin is notorious for (getting a lot of crashes from that only, and having reported the crash to Apple has not helped so far).

Mac devs: My app gets an exception at the NSApplicationRun call in main.m when my app invokes a Quick Look window which in turn raises an exception. The stack trace shows no code of mine, so I cannot catch it. Any idea how do to that? I can only catch in main() when it's too late.