Steve Troughton-Smith

Hopper's MCP in something like Codex is *killer*. I can ask it things like, 'what private API could I use to make a UIKit window dockable on visionOS', and it will just figure it out from the disassembly, same way I would — just a lot faster.

Its solution matches the one I reverse-engineered myself a while back (https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/VisionImmersiveDockableUIKit/blob/main/VisionImmersiveDockableUIKit/Source/Application/VVUDockableWindowScene.swift)

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber@mastodon.social

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber@mastodon.social

Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.

The Eee PC 901 netbook was priced at, you guessed it, the same $599 as the brand-new incredibly-powerful MacBook Neo

⭐️ New blog post: A Month With OpenAI's Codex

https://highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20260301-A-Month-With-OpenAIs-Codex

It's been literal *years* since I last posted anything, so you know this is a big deal for me 😜

This kinda blew my mind; in 2003 Apple had not yet come up with a name for what is now NSSegmentedControl, so Ali Ozer asked developers at WWDC to write in with their suggestions…

There's no NSBoatyMcBoatface, but NSElephantInATent is up there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM1c1wL62so

RIP Bluepoint. Sony destroyed an entire generation of their incredibly-talented games studios in the pursuit of a bullshit live service strategy chasing revenue that never came. In a month's time (give or take), that's probably going to include Bungie, too. What a waste

Speaking of the quality of Apple's Private Cloud Compute model…

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Long, illuminating discussion with @steipete@mastodon.social

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFjfBk8HI5o

There is a non-zero chance that OpenClaw ends the world

RE: @anderseknert@swecyb.com

OpenClaw must be stopped 🤣

Always love it when BBEdit can trivially edit a 60MB JSON file and trying it with Xcode just explodes the editor and stops lines rendering

If you want a roundtable panel discussion from some of the SwiftUI folks, talking about the history, recommendations, problems, Liquid Glass, generative AI, (how to pronounce 'detent'), etc, there's 30 mins of it here at the end of this new Meet with Apple session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vloOtZLkQ

Much as you don't generally go auditing the bytecode or intermediate representation generated by your compiler, I think the idea of manually reviewing LLM-written code will fall by the wayside too. Like it or not, these agents are the new compilers, and prompting them is the new programming. Regardless of what happens with any AI bubble, this is just how things will be from now on; we've experienced a permanent, irreversible increase to the level of abstraction. We are all assembly programmers

Liquid Glass in dark mode in AppKit doesn't even remotely work — just look at this toolbar behavior. We're months post-release and this is what Mac developers are still facing out of the box 😑

In hindsight, maybe attempting to replace CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics, AppKit, UIKit, and Interface Builder — the enabling technologies of some of the most successful operating systems in history — all in one fell swoop with a single black box framework — intended to make watch apps — wasn't the greatest of ideas 👀

Who could have possibly predicted this?

ARTE.tv on visionOS

/via https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arte-tv/id405028510

#visionOS