Apple Beta Chaos 2019
Posted onWhat’s wrong (and not) about this year’s betas from Apple.…
Migrating deprecated Server services
Posted onLike Apple announced this spring they have now removed many services from their macOS Server.app. There is a nice overview here [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312]. There is also a migration guide [https://developer.apple.com/support/macos-server/macOS-Server-Service-Migration-Guide.pdf] , that should help with transitioning to some open…
The internals of the macOS HUD
Posted on[tl;dr;] The frame of the macOS system HUD is (origin = (x = 620, y = 140), size = (width = 200, height = 200))... (at the time of writing) In one of the reviews of CapsLocker [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/capslocker/id1102304865] a user disliked, that the HUDs in CapsLocker do not…
Codable CoreData
Posted onSwift 4 [https://swift.org/blog/swift-4-0-released/], amongst other things, brought a way to serialize/deserialize data into/from model objects called Codable. Those changes were proposed under SE-0166 [https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0166-swift-archival-serialization.md] . I'm not going to elaborate on how Codable works since it's…
Swift 3
Posted onTogether with iOS 10, watchOS 3 and Xcode 8 Swift 3 made its way into the public. Of course there were betas of Xcode (and with it Swift 3) before the public release. And of course I was playing around with them, too. While more and more projects are converted…
Domain Change
Posted onYou might have noticed that the domain of my blog changed from blog.ffried.net to ffried.codes. I've been waiting to use one of the new gTLDs and now I finally made the switch. It's not that easy to setup a root domain with Ghost [https://ghost.org], however.…
Swift - A first deeper look
Posted ontl;dr; Swift is awesome, but there are still many bugs for Apple to fix. What is Swift? Swift is the new programming language Apple introduced at the last WWDC in 2014 alongside iOS 8. When I first heard about it a the keynote I was quite sceptic. Why? Because…
Long time no hear
Posted onIt's quite some time ago since I've last written something here. Sorry about that. I'm currenlty in the middle of moving from Switzerland to Germany which gives me quite a lot to do. But I plan to write some more posts again. For example I'm gonna write about my experiences…
FFUserDefaults
Posted ontl;dr; There is a neat little library for handling NSUserDefaults over here [https://github.com/ffried/FFUserDefaults]. For a project I've recently worked on, I've created a settings class which mirrors its properties into NSUserDefaults. I did so by overriding the getters and setters and directly forwarding the calls…
Supporting App.net
Posted onAbout a month ago the App.net State of the Union [http://blog.app.net/2014/05/06/app-net-state-of-the-union/] blog post was published by the App.net crew. Like for many other App.net users it was surprising and sad at the same time for me, too. Surprising, because App.…