‘Shareware Heroes’ by Richard Moss

New Macs All Have Model Identifier “Mac”

Oskar Groth: Well this just broke – seems like Apple changed the model identifiers for new M2 Macs. Regardless of model, Macs are now just called Mac14,1, Mac15,2 etc. I wonder if there’s still a way to figure this out without hardcoding all identif…

Peer Group Benchmarks

Apple: Peer group benchmarks provide powerful new insights across the customer journey, so you can better understand what works well for your app and find opportunities for improvement. Apps are placed into groups based on their App Store category, …

Shortcat 0.11.4

Sproutcube (via Rui Carmo): Shortcat indexes your Mac’s user interface and makes them available to you in a powerful command palette.Click buttons, focus text fields, invoke menu commands, switch windows, and more; no mouse required.[…]Shortcat lets…

‘Shareware Heroes’ by Richard Moss

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★ Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the ‘HBO’ Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service ‘Max’

HBO’s new slogan might as well be “It’s not TV. It’s a tab somewhere in the Max app.”

C23 Standard Sets the World on Fire

Terence Kelly and Borer Yekai Pan (via Hacker News): Like the previous major revision, C11, the latest standard introduces several useful features. The most important, if not the most exciting, make it easier to write safe, correct, and secure code.…

Casting in XCTest Methods

Paul Samuels: The XCTest framework added the super helpful function XCTUnwrap back in Xcode 11. At the time I added a similar helper to my various projects to help smooth over the many cases where casting is required. The idea is to have a similar c…

Checking the Real Apple Account Balance

John Gordon: His account [in the Mac App Store] shows $150 as a balance, but that’s wrong. If you click on Profile and drill down to this Accounts page (requires authentication) you will see the correct amount of $135.37. Evidently the amount displa…

macOS Cursor Images

Matt Birchler (Hacker News): Some design assets some of you may love!macOS Cursors has SVGs of basically (actually?) every cursor from macOS.Emoji Toolkit has 135 common emoji in vector format (Figma, Sketch, and Photoshop versions) so you ever need…

★ Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the ‘HBO’ Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service ‘Max’

HBO’s new slogan might as well be “It’s not TV. It’s a tab somewhere in the Max app.”

★ Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the ‘HBO’ Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service ‘Max’

HBO’s new slogan might as well be “It’s not TV, it’s just a tab somewhere in the Max app.”

Keyboard Shortcuts for Exporting From Photos.app

Ole Begemann: The Photos app on macOS doesn’t provide a keyboard shortcut for the Export Unmodified Original command.macOS allows you to add your own app-specific keyboard shortcuts via System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts…

Side Mirror 2.5

Ben Scheirman: Side Mirror allows you to select any attached display on your Mac and run it in a window. This can be useful for a number of reasons: During live presentations, to avoid looking back at a projector screen. You can see it and monitor w…

Photos, Spotlight, and iCloud

Nick Heer: So I assumed this message would disappear after my Mac figured out I had moved its library. A week later, it has not disappeared and images from Photos are, indeed, not searchable in Spotlight. Apple’s documentation implies Spotlight will…

Xcode Files With Source-Control Status

Jesse Squires: I usually use Git Tower to review and commit my changes, but you can’t edit files in Git Tower, which means switching back-and-forth between Xcode if you need to make additional modifications. Xcode provides a nice commit interface th…

Bob Iger’s Letter to Disney Employees Accompanying Their Copies of ‘Make Something Wonderful’

Bob Iger’s Letter to Disney Employees Accompanying Their Copies of ‘Make Something Wonderful’