I installed iPadOS 27 beta 3 on my iPad yesterday. Loving it so far. Much less buggy than iPadOS 26 and looks better too.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist.
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@matt1corey@iosdev.space My Man Reader app - a Mac app that provides a GUI for reading man pages - is 50% off during Indie App Sales. https://troz.net/manreader/
Over the course of writing my books and apps, I've frequently had to wrestle with the Mac app sandbox.
I've just published an article tying together all the techniques I use, with a sample app on GitHub. I hope Mac developers find this useful.
https://troz.net/post/2026/playing_mac_sandbox/
Recently, I was working with units and unit conversions in Swift. After a while, I then remembered that Swift has a built-in structure for doing this: `Measurement`. This is so good and so under-appreciated that I thought it deserved its own article: https://troz.net/post/2025/swift-measurements/
As promised in my SwiftUI for Mac 2025 article, here is a more detailed article about SwiftUI's new WebView.
https://troz.net/post/2025/swiftui-webview/
The SwiftUI team have done an amazing job on this, and I can't wait to start using it in my apps and books.
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@nileane@nileane.fr @finestructure@mastodon.social @tinystartapp@nileane.fr Highly recommend. I bought this app and it’s great. Fast, light weight, learns the apps you use frequently.
Kodeco is having their spring sale, so if you were thinking of grabbing my macOS Apprentice book, now would be a great time.
Spoiler alert: there's an update in the final stages of editing, so if you buy now, the update is included in the discounted price.
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@eugenpirogoff I fixed it by turning off Software Update - Automatic Updates - Automatically Install System Files.
The fine print actually warns you that the system will reserve space for this but nothing mentions it when you get told your storage is full.
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@dvrzan I watch videos and read tech blogs. For something that I want to implement, I much prefer reading.
Escape from Tutorial Hell is now available!
Read all about it and check out a free sample at https://troz.net/post/2025/new-book:-escape-from-tutorial-hell/
Buy it from Gumroad at https://sarahreichelt.gumroad.com/l/iqdry
If you bought the pre-release, you can update now through your Gumroad library. And if you've had time to read any of it, I'd really appreciate a rating or review.
Please boost this post as the book is not in my usual style and will appeal to a broader audience.
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@iosdevweekly Thanks for the link to my Mac sandbox article and for your very kind remarks.
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@marioguzman@mastodon.social @carrchr@hachyderm.io Great article. Thanks for assembling that all in one place. Just wanted to add that the About box can use Credits.html if you prefer writing HTML to RTF.
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@isaiah@mastodon.social For SwiftUI, SceneStorage is like AppStorage only per window. I don’t know how to map this to UserDefaults but there must be a link.
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@atomicpoet I like to think this way:
Bookmark - that’s just for me
Like - thank you to whoever posted
Boost - hey everyone, look at this
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@superpixel@mastodon.social Thanks for letting me know. I forgot to make it public when I posted. Should be available now.