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Mach-O
A browsable archive of writing and notes across the site.
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How to find a Mac app's BundleID
Every iOS and macOS app stores its configuration in a plist file, and the app’s BundleID lives in there alongside the version number. Read the plist and you’ve got …
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A few notes on LetsMove
When you download a Mac app from the web, it usually ends up in your Downloads folder. But some apps really need to live in /Applications to work properly — self-update being the …
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XPC Services
About XPC I’ve been doing some work in this area lately, so here are my notes — a quick recap of what XPC is and how it works. XPC is the umbrella term for inter-process …
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Codable && Tuple
While learning Swift, I keep finding interesting things. Codable is one of them. Today, I defined a model with a tuple type, then Xcode gave me an error. The code might look like …
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How to generate a NSViewController without a Nib?
Recently, I created all the ViewControllers through the storyboard or the Nib (for views). Today, when I created a demo project without any Nib file, the ViewController did not …
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A Swift quiz
A puzzle showed up on Twitter the other day. It exercises overload resolution and type(of:) together. This is just a note for myself; I’ll write up MetaType separately. // …
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Libraries and frameworks
Most of us have a rough mental model of what a library and a framework are. This post lays out the basics — not every byte, just enough to be useful. I covered the broader compile …