I’m shopping for an office desk and thought I’d check staples.com. Open up the app and it demands I download their new app. Okay whatever. New app is literally just a web view for staples.com, complete with the app banner to open the app. That I’m already in. LOL.
Last week’s Google: how to add git submodule
This week’s Google: how to remove git submodule
And the circle of life continues…
I’m working on breaking components out of my Swift project into local SPM packages. I’m really starting to like the architecture. But I’m having trouble with testing. I’d like to ⌘-T in Xcode and run both the app unit tests and the SPM tests, but I can’t make it work. All the posts online redirect back to this answer: developer.apple.com/forums/th… But when I try to follow along, the SPM test targets just aren’t in the list. Anyone have a clue?
In general, I’m skeptical about AI code generation, especially in the hands of inexperienced engineers who think it’s smarter than they are. But when you need it to do a menial thing? Fantastic! For a Swift project, I needed a bunch of constants that I found on GitHub in a Python file. I pointed ChatGPT at the URL and asked it to generate the corresponding Swift enum, but change the keys from snake case to camel case. And… it just did it! I think it might even be right.
TIL - the term ‘split horizon’ DNS. It’s a thing I’ve been doing for 20+ years to manage internal vs external DNS. I always called it ‘DNS jiggery pokery’, but I guess this is better.
I’m 5+ years late to this party, but I finally started playing Breath of the Wild back in the fall. Videos always made the combat seem complicated, but it really isn’t. The complexity the world is amazing. I watched a cut scene where Zelda stood up and dusted the dirt off her pants. My brain is still trying to reconcile that level of detail with 8-bit blob at the end of the NES edition.
I’ve loved this game so much I hate to actually finish it. But it’s such a big thing, I don’t want to start Tears of the Kingdom right away. But I’ve still got a couple of shrines to find. And I’ve never been in battle on a horse.
Made a lot of progress yesterday with reverse engineering the messaging protocol for a USB powered light. Turns out Wireshark is not just for network snooping!
So if you’re wearing a Vision Pro and you see someone else wearing a Vision Pro, you just see the headset, right? Somebody at Apple is furiously working on recognizing other headsets and replacing them with Personas.
Our first Mac was a purple gumdrop G3 iMac DV with MacOS 9. We were in grad school at the time and my wife used it to write her thesis in Word. The iMac was a fantastic little machine, but Word would occasionally center her entire document so there was cursing and crying. I don’t think we ever had anything fancy enough to plug into those FireWire ports. #MyFirstMac
It’s the kind of day where you have to disable System Integrity Protection. I’m sure this’ll all turn out fine.
Somebody nicked our credit card number and Bank of America sent new cards. Cool. Then I have to manually update Apple Wallet on like 6 different devices… not as cool.
TIL: AVCaptureDevice documentation says the ‘uniqueID’ is ‘a unique identifier that persists on one system across device connections and disconnections, application restarts, and reboots of the system itself’. Unless you plug that webcam into a different USB port. Then the Mac is all ‘Woah! WTF is this thing?!’
I have a project that failed to build under Xcode 15. It links a 3rd party framework written in C++ but the link step fails with unresolved symbols. This classic mode flag for the linker fixed it right up.
Python in Excel! But you have to write your python in the little Excel formula box? Like getting a Ferrari but having to drive it with an app on your phone.
It’d be cool if the Apple Card (like the physical card) worked with Find My, so my wallet doesn’t have to have a dog tag.
That thing where the list of states on a web form is alphabetized by state name, but display text is the two letter abbreviation… so the list goes NV, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND. Who looks at that and is like, yeah, we got it!
Am I reading this right?
Disney+ and Hulu are getting big price increases, $3 a month for both services on the ad-free tier. So if you subscribe to both, it currently costs $26 and that’s getting bumped to $32. BUT they’re adding a bundle of ad-free Hulu and Disney+ for $20. So if you subscribe to both (like me!), this is actually going to save $6?
Office 365
I’ve been moving SonicBunny Software from Google Workspace to Office 365 over the last few weeks. I like 365 and it offers a lot of features, but the time it takes to make a change is a bit of a shock. Configuring Exchange and so many things take 5 or 10 minutes to kick in. I guess Google is similar, but with a small installation, it seems like Google was nearly instant where O365 really does take several minutes. But I just hit the kicker – ‘Please allow 24 to 48 hours for this to take effect.’ Yowza!