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How NSHostingView Determines Its Sizing

donderdag 3 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brian Webster: I couldn’t get my SwiftUI view to expand to fill up the entire superview that the NSHostingView was being added to.[…]The next thing I came across was a property on NSHostingView called sizingOptions, which is described in the documen…

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Rethinking Window Management

donderdag 3 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tobias Bernard: We’ve wanted more powerful tiling [in GNOME] for years, but there has not been much progress due to the huge amount of work involved on the technical side and the lack of a clear design direction we were happy with. We now finally fe…

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Mozilla Shutting Down Pocket for Mac

donderdag 3 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Potuck (Mastodon): Mozilla has announced today that its read-it-later service Pocket will be retiring its Mac app this month. Users are encouraged to install the iOS app on their Mac or use the web going forward. The whole point of native ap…

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Helping ckbk Remove Ad Tracking

donderdag 3 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: Matt was referring to “Use Live Text to Digitize Your Cookbooks“ (5 January 2023), and he wanted to tell me about his service ckbk, which provides the full text of roughly 700 cookbooks to subscribers.[…]I downloaded the ckbk app to my i…

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Tax Services Shared Financial Information With Google and Meta

dinsdag 1 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Colin Lecher: Meta and major tax preparation companies inappropriately shared millions of taxpayers’ financial data for years, according to a congressional report released today that was spurred by a Markup article. Our investigation, which was publ…

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Twitter Is Now X

dinsdag 1 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: Company-wide memo from nominal X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino, sent this morning[…] Sarah Perez (via John Gruber): The owner of the @x Twitter handle confirmed that the company, now known as X, took over his account without warning or finan…

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System Settings That Aren’t in System Settings

dinsdag 1 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: By rights, settings in an app should only control the behaviour of that app. Settings for macOS behaviours should be controlled in System Settings, after all that’s what the name says. However, over the years Apple has hidden some awa…

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Swift Enum Pattern Matching With Extra Conditions

dinsdag 1 augustus 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Natalia Panferova: In this post we are going to explore how we can provide more precise conditions for pattern matching when working with enums in Swift. The most common use case is using switch statements with the where clause to get more control o…

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iCloud Drive Troubleshooting, Metadata, and Custom Icons

maandag 31 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Fixing problems with iCloud and iCloud Drive is completely different from any other troubleshooting in macOS, because:Almost all problems are delays in or failure of synchronisation.Documentation is almost entirely lacking.There are a…

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Exploring Unicode in macOS With Clui

maandag 31 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joel Bruner: My new tool clui, pronounced “clue-ee” offers Command Line Unicode Info with the ability to export to a variety of formats like CSV, JSON, YAML, RTF and more. While I’ve written a few macOS command line tools geared to the Mac Admin lik…

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Switching to a Mac After Decades on Windows

vrijdag 28 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Anže Tomić: The other reason I got the Mac mini is how quiet it is, which is very helpful when you record your voice for a living. […] The announcement of the M2 Pro Mac Mini with all those Thunderbolt ports at the back was the day I knew I was goin…

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The Mess at Stack Overflow

vrijdag 28 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ayhan Fuat Çelik: Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% 35% of its traffic (Update: Around 15% of the observed loss seems to be related to the recategorization of the Google Analytics Cookie around May 2022.[…]). Thi…

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Reddit Deleted Years of Chat History

vrijdag 28 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Wes Davis: Reddit users have noticed the site unexpectedly removed everyone’s chat history prior to January 1st of this year. Those asking why have been directed to a changelog update from June announcing feature updates to chats (via Mashable). The…

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Tesla Range Estimates and Suppressing Complaints

donderdag 27 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu (via Hacker News): Tesla years ago began exaggerating its vehicles’ potential driving distance – by rigging their range-estimating software. The company decided about a decade ago, for marketing purposes, to writ…

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Web Environment Integrity

donderdag 27 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ron Amadeo: Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM? Over the weekend the Internet got wind of this proposal for a “Web Environment Integrity API. “ The explainer is authored by four Googlers, including at least one person on Chrome’s “Privacy…

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UK Antitrust Lawsuit Over App Store Fees

donderdag 27 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick (via Dare Obasanjo): Apple has become the target of a £785 million ($1 billion) class action lawsuit on behalf of over 1,500 developers in the UK over its App Store fees, reports TechCrunch.The suit accuses Apple of abusing a dominant p…

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Microsoft Office’s New Default Font: Aptos

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tom Warren (Hacker News): Microsoft is replacing its Calibri default font with Aptos, a new sans-serif typeface that’s inspired by mid-20th-century Swiss typography. Previously known as Bierstadt, Aptos has been part of Microsoft’s hunt for its new …

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Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Garry Knight (via John Gruber): I got a pair of AirPod Pro earbuds and set them up for my personal hearing needs. Later that day I went for a walk in my local woods and literally gasped out loud at hearing the birds I’d been missing for some years!T…

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Finbar 1.7.3

dinsdag 25 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Roey Biran (Reddit): Finbar reimagines the Mac’s built–in menu bar search with great features such as fuzzy filtering and tracking of recently selected menu items — without sacrificing an ounce of speed. With Finbar, you’ll unlock the menu bar’s tru…

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Melio

dinsdag 25 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: Then we found Melio, which promises ACH payments for free and has no transaction limits (banks may have their own). Melio makes its money by charging for rush payments, credit card payments, paper checks, and what are essentially payment…

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macOS 13.5

maandag 24 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Ventura 13.5 introduces important bug fixes and security updates. Apple recommends that all users install the software.Ther…

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