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How Mac apps launch at login
Launching at login is one of the most common features for a Cocoa app — especially the menu-bar utilities that are meant to be always-on. Let’s walk through how to add this …
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How do dockless Mac apps work?
Menu-only apps are one of the most common patterns in Cocoa-land. They don’t take up a spot in your Dock, they don’t get in the way when you’re switching across …
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Using Yinxiangbiji in Safari on an English-language macOS
Evernote runs a separate account system in China — Yinxiangbiji (印象笔记) — and last year the team there spun off entirely. But the Safari Web Clipper is still the same extension …
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Adding a backgroundColor to NSView
NSView is the most basic building block in Cocoa — the foundation of every Mac app’s view hierarchy, exactly like UIView is for iOS. But the dead-simple backgroundColor …
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The Subjects in RxSwift
All diagrams in this post are from the book RxSwift - Reactive Programming with Swift. In the Rx world, a Subject is something that’s both an observer and an observable. The …