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Wade Tregaskis

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The macOS Sequoia 15.8 updater stole my RAM

Workaround for a macOS bin that refuses to empty

The Apple Calculator Language

Claude Opus 5 is limited to a 0.2M token context window by default

Apple’s notarytool can’t handle Zip64 files

What’s Coming in Swift 6.4

Claude Says No

Asus ProArt PA32QCV

SSH waits for background jobs to exit only in non-pseudo-terminal mode

“\r\n” is one Character in Swift

6k display comparison

Studio Display XDR vs Pro Display XDR

Bugs Apple Loves & Apps Apple Hates

We’ve been in squircle jail before

Cross Dissolve only the video, not the audio, in Final Cut Pro

Recording audio to an iPhone via a Tascam Portacapture X8

Fixing sudden, random iPhone disconnects from Image Capture

Better image stabilisation in Final Cut Pro using Object Tracking

Extracting embedded images from a PDF

Fading audio with AVPlayer

How to loop video in AVPlayer

Image Capture import failing with error -9934

How to make a macOS screen saver

32-bit float audio recording is not a panacea

How to disable automatic project backups in Final Cut Pro

traceroute bad.horse

Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB

presentedWindowStyle is not windowStyle

“Import from iPhone or iPad” doesn’t work when any view contains a SwiftUI Toggle

NSPasteboard crashes due to unsafe, internal concurrent memory mutation when handling file promises

Calling Swift Concurrency async code synchronously in Swift

Red Light

Stellaris AI construction & science ship spam bugs

Sync Now

Bipolar customer support

NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing

A short update on getting answers on the modern internet

When all you have is a Core Data, everything looks like…

Lightroom could not import this catalog because of an unknown error

Swift on a Raspberry Pi (in 2024)

The only usable ByteCountFormatStyle is decimal

Fucking FormatStyle

Copy-on-write on APFS

Swift sucks at web serving… or does it?

Swift tip: the swap function

The cost of electrical power in servers

URLSession performance for reading a byte stream

Swift’s native Clocks are very inefficient