Once again, @StewartLynch@iosdev.space has blown my mind with a random factoid in his #SwiftRockies conference talk.
This time it's that you can right-click on column separators in Finder in order to right-size columns 🤯
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A local friend of mine has been working on a new macOS app to help you manage your iPod: https://podcenter.app
No more Finder, no more iTunes…
Who's going to be at #SwiftRockies next week? #Apple WWDR will be! Are you coming too?
https://calgary.tech/2026/07/14/apple-joins-inaugural-swift-rockies-conference-at-calgary-zoo/
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An epic deep dive into all the issues with icons in menus in macOS Tahoe: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
I’ve considered switching my personal timekeeping over to the Julian calendar, but its days are numbered.
The terrible itch to start a new side project before finishing the ones i have in-progress right now…
I wonder if it's now time to dust off yet-another-side-project of "writing the mapping app i wish Apple had actually made (and that I tried to push for when I worked on Maps)"
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/24/apple-maps-ads-announced/
Sometimes things are just magic.
I got on an airplane this morning and soon learned my old AirPods were on their last legs. At 30,000 feet, I ordered a new pair and they’re going to be waiting for me at the hotel front desk in a couple of hours.
Meanwhile my flight lands in about 45 minutes.
Crazy.
It seems like every time I work on a #Swift project, I end up needing a comprehensive download management framework, yet haven't found anything adequate yet.
I need things like: custom protocols (not just http downloads), progress reporting w/ estimation, pausing + resuming, named objects, hierarchical downloads, persisting in-progress info to disk, download queueing with max limits, and so much more.
I hate having to reinvent this on literally every single project.
Is it just me or do the macOS Contacts and Calendar apps feel like basically abandonware? I can't think of a single meaningful change to either of them in *checks watch* the past decade.
In today's "ugh really"… there's no way to remove people from the automatic "Birthdays" calendar who're dead. Nor are there ways to track anniversaries that *aren't* birthdays. Seems like utterly basic 1.0 functionality you'd want in the feature that's just not there.
What are these teams working on?!
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@cocoaphony@mastodon.social the way the tooling is lagged so far behind the evolution of the language has been really infuriating and demoralizing, to be honest. It's felt like Xcode has gone from a best-in-class IDE to a mediocre-at-best experience. I sincerely hope something changes. Task-aware debugging is just one step along the way.
Another day, another attempt to used "typed throws" in Swift and being brutally reminded that it's only half-implemented 🤦♂️
Today it's that none of the continuation APIs support it.
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@finestructure@mastodon.social @fork_dev@mastodon.social Still one of my proudest github issues: https://github.com/fork-dev/Tracker/issues/562
After months of holding off, I think I finally have to update to os 26 😢
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@colin@mastodon.cocoasamurai.social manually upcast it to an optional:
let foo: Foo? = bar.badlyAnnotatedObjCAPI()
Then deal with normally. I do this somewhat regularly
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@mjtsai@mastodon.social Ugh, that's so disappointing. Even more reason to hold off upgrading from Sequoia.
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@jamesdempsey I got a follow notification and went to report it, but it looks like the account's already been killed! 🥳
@SJohnRoss@dice.camp @gamedevjeff@mastodon.gamedev.place maybe try getting in touch with Dave Addey, the creator of this site (and book): https://typesetinthefuture.com/
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@cocoafrog@hachyderm.io the problem i've found with 3rd party apps isn't the app, it's the integration. Working with my iCloud account is an absolute must-have for me, but the underlying API is so pathetically anemic and lacking features that you can't actually write anything worthwhile using it; the EventKit and Contacts frameworks feel just as abandoned as the apps themselves. Again no meaningful improvement or additions in years.
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@calicoding@mastodon.social starting work on an update to my app, which means OS 26 support, which means I have to install Tahoe and iOS in order to develop + test
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@MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social technically the text is selectable and so you can use ⌘C after selection, but yeah that DEFINITELY should be in the menu you get when clicking on the row label
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@mergesort I can see how it might be good if I were the one using public transit, but I have to say it's really abysmal to *follow along* as someone else (ie, my kids) are on a bus. I find the UI almost impossible to understand.
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@gabe_sky@infosec.exchange I love how simple this is. Any chance it can grow an SVG option?
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@aleck@mastodon.social I really enjoyed it too. I think a bunch of the plot points were rushed, but it was still great. Ysabeau and Phillipe’s romance was incredible, even though they never were on the screen together. Be sure to check out the books if you haven’t already!
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