Mothers Ruin Software (Mastodon): Changed the info pane to show Quarantine rather than Downloaded. Modern macOS likes to quarantine files that are opened by a sandboxed app, seemingly resulting in more non-download quarantines than actual downloads. You can still click on the quarantine date here to see what app triggered it and how — for […]

Jeff Johnson: I found that the Apple Files app was broken in the simulator, which prevented me from setting up my app properly for my screenshots. I couldn’t share a file on my Mac with the simulator. I couldn’t save a file on the simulator, for example from my own app or from the Apple […]

Whatever, Jamie (via Hacker News): This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts with precise fitness for task. Through these, we’ve seen the language spread to the Cloud, the edge, Smart TVs, mobile devices, and even microcontrollers.In […]

Benjamin Esham: Every iOS and Mac developer is familiar with the situation: Xcode has gotten itself wedged somehow and the only solution is to blow away the DerivedData folder in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode. […] But rm needs to enumerate every file and directory within DerivedData in order to delete them. The more files there are, the longer […]

ZigZag: Added script actions to execute your own custom scripts (with selected files as input arguments and optional textual output). FileUtils can execute UNIX scripts/binaries, AppleScript scripts and Automator workflows. I’ve been using FastScripts for running scripts on the Finder selection, because I already use it for running scripts in other apps. However, one benefit […]