Tag: macOS

All the articles with the tag "macOS".

• Showing Settings from macOS Menu Bar Items: A 5-Hour Journey

  Published: 16 Jun, 2025

  • 6 min read

  Why something as simple as showing a settings dialog from a macOS menu bar app took me 5 hours to figure out, and requires 50 lines of code for what should be a one-liner.

• Peekaboo MCP – lightning-fast macOS screenshots for AI agents

  Published: 7 Jun, 2025

  • 5 min read

  Turn your blind AI into a visual debugger with instant screenshot capture and analysis

• Migrating 700+ Tests to Swift Testing: A Real-World Experience

  Published: 6 Jun, 2025

  • 13 min read

  How I migrated over 700 tests from XCTest to Swift Testing across two projects, with AI assistance and systematic refinement

• Code Signing and Notarization: Sparkle and Tears

  Published: 5 Jun, 2025

  • 10 min read

  My brutal journey implementing Sparkle auto-updates in sandboxed macOS apps - from 40 failed releases to enlightenment.

• Vibe Meter: Monitor Your AI Costs

  Published: 4 Jun, 2025

  • 7 min read

  How I built Vibe Meter, a macOS menu bar app to track AI spending in real-time - from workshop demo to shipped product in three days.

• Top-Level Menu Visibility in SwiftUI for macOS

  Published: 9 Apr, 2021

  • 3 min read

  Working around SwiftUI's CommandsBuilder limitations to conditionally show top-level menus on macOS using direct AppKit integration.

• Fixing keyboardShortcut in SwiftUI

  Published: 31 Jan, 2021

  • 7 min read

  Debugging and fixing a SwiftUI keyboardShortcut bug that fails when mixing SwiftUI with UIKit through reverse engineering and LLDB analysis.

• Supporting Both Tap and Long Press on a Button in SwiftUI

  Published: 27 Jan, 2021

  • 6 min read

  Creating a SwiftUI button that supports both tap and long-press gestures by bridging to UIKit when SwiftUI's gesture system fails on Catalyst.

• On Using Apple Silicon Mac Mini for Continuous Integration

  Published: 14 Dec, 2020

  • 9 min read

  Documenting the challenges and solutions for integrating Apple Silicon M1 Mac minis into a continuous integration system, including automation fixes and performance comparisons.

• Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

  Published: 28 Nov, 2020

  • 8 min read

  A comprehensive evaluation of the M1 MacBook Air as a development machine, covering Xcode performance, compatibility issues, and the transition challenges for developers.