How Many Zettelkästen Should You Have?

The Zettelkasten is a tool for personal productivity and writing, first and foremost. So the answer is almost always ...

Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two

I’m hosting this month’s Emacs Carnival. Submit your blog posts on the topic “Take Two” in June to participate!

My Procedure to Create New Zettelkasten Notes Inline

Apply wishful programming to reserve things you want to research or write about later, so that you can keep up the writing flow now.

No Open Office Hour On May 27th

Tuesday, May 27th I am out of office.

Microsoft Recall and Signal: When You Don't Worry About 3rd But 1st Party Spy Software

Signal Desktop for Windows blocks screenshots by default, using DRM protection tools, to not have the screen-scraping tool Recall silently record your conversations. At least that’s the effect that is promised.

Insert Cc and Bcc Mail Headers Conditionally in Emacs message-mode

Using a function to insert some mail composition headers only if they don’t already exist, because some mail servers won’t accept the email otherwise.

New Era of Small Software Shops

Big Tech is here to stay, but if they go full-LLM, full factory production, you will find care and craft and innovation elsewhere.

The Inlined Agile Software Craftsmanship Manifesto

What happens when you resolve the references in the four values of the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto to the corresponding values from the Agile Manifesto? You end up with this.

Xogot, Godot 4.4 for iPad, Just Dropped

Xogot is available on the App Store

Variadic Types in Swift and How to Count Them

Exploring parameter packs (the repeat-each stuff) in Swift to count how many types are in the generic argument clause, or if that’s empty.

Cloudflare Tunnel via Docker with SWAG Nginx Reverse Proxy using Subdomains in Proxy Network on Unraid

Creating a new Cloudflared tunnel with DNS settings that allow you to map subdomains to Docker containers on your Unraid NAS using SWAG.

My Current Compilation Window Display Settings in Emacs via display-buffer-alist

My current display-buffer-alist settings for compilation output.

Start of a Zettel: Modern UICollectionView

A Zettelkasten is a tool for learning. How do I learn a new piece of a familiar API at the very start?

Master Software Crafters Let the Workpiece Be

It’s easy for coders to code, but master software craftspeople also need to take responsibility for non-programming tasks.

Introducing Markdown Babel: a Universal Tool to Make Markdown Files Executable

Execute code blocks in any Markdown document with your favorite editors using md-babel

Calling Swift Library Functions from C

A quick recipe on how to emit a binary from Swift that you can use from a C program.

Keep .org File Outline Items Sorted Alphabetically

Use org-sort and before-save-hook to keep a file sorted at all times.

Test, Save, and Execute HTTP Requests with Hurl (or restclient.el)

Impersonate your browser to send HTTP requests directly from your text editor, or executable documentation!

Community Debt

Andy Bell wants to make his web design studio support movements for the betterment of the world, and share in the open, partly to pay off a community debt.

Each Failed Project Has Failed in Its Own Way – Anna Karenina Principle of Software Failure

Wherein I present to you the Anna Karenina Principle of software failure.

The Limits of swift-markdown Customization

So I’ve tried to create a processing pipeline with the Markdown package published by the Swift Team. It does a couple of really nice things, but it is also very locked-down in its functionality.

Open Office Hours (Daylight Saving Time): Tuesdays, 18:30 CEST (That’s 1 Hour Late)

Every Tuesday is Open Office day: hop on a (video) chat and ask question or just hang out. During DST, it’ll be 1 hour later than before.

Working with Process Pipe and Its 64KiB Limit

Piping data from your Swift program to another program, or receiving large amounts of data from standard input, can be prone to errors, freezing your program. Here is how to do it safely.

NSPopover in NSTextView With Links Is Broken: Accessibility Hierarchy Slowdown

Showing a popover relative to a text view will compute the accessibility hierarchy 3 times per clickable link in the text view; that can get slow real quick.

NSFileWrapper Sometimes Changes Modification Date to the Past

Beware when overwriting files with the same content using NSFileWrapper: the modification date can mess up.

NSTextView Bypasses performKeyEquivalent Check for Backspace and Option-Backspace

Shortcuts, aka “key equivalents”, are usually handled by views in your vier hierarchy in the same, predicatable way. Except deleting a character or word with backspace in a text view. These two, apparently, short-circuit this mechanism.

Comparing Use of AI vs Learning to Code Has Nothing to Do With Knowledge

LLM code output is faster, yes, but it’s incommensurable with gaining knowledge.

Preview Mass Text Replacements with Emacs 30.1 replace-regexp-as-diff

Performing text replacements on large documents or multiple files is annoying: you get false-positive results all too quickly; stepping through each and every match interactively is cumbersome, too. What about previewing changes as a diff, though?

Ethan Marcotte, the Luxury of Job Choice, and Principles

Resigning from a job associated with the government that is exciting and pays well requires strong principles. The tipping point for Ethan wasn’t what I was expecting, though.

Important Things Are Never Just Done

The paradoxes of activism: Individual action seems pointless, yet individuals is all we are. You alone cannot change the world, but if you don’t try to, it certainly won’t. Defending against very rational and even well-meaning criticism.

Leverage (to Influence Apple)

Following Matt Massicotte’s example, the real leverage to influence Apple’s political course of action at all is through organized protest, and boycott.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font Next and Mono

The Atkinson Hyperlegible free font has been updated, and now comes with more weights and a monospace variant!

Guilt-Free for the First Time. Burkeman’s “Meditations for Mortals”

Burkeman’s book “Meditations for Mortals” is 0% new-age and 100% productivity tips. It is just structured in a way that encoes taking it in slowly, and at least a couple of months into it, it changed my life for the better.

Staring In My Face, But I Ain’t Looking: Simplifying RxSwift Subscriptions

The ultimate manifestation of a simplification is replacing N>1 things with 1 thing. If each of these things in turn are non-trivial, you can really feel how much complexity of behavior you cut away.

Sins of Carthage: RxSwift Re-Entrancy, Undetected

Where I realize that building dependencies in DEBUG mode can offer insights.

Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb

Xcode 16 doesn’t support working on a Package and a Demo app at the same time. But other editors do.

Responsive, Scalable Hamburger Menu in Accessible CSS

Draw a hamburger menu in pure CSS, then control the menu’s visibility with pure CSS and HTML. It’s a beaut.

Free SwiftUI University Course fro -Boston College Professor

If you need a free resource to make apps with SwiftUI in 2025, this one might be for you.

Open Office Hours: Tuesdays, 17:30 CET

Every Tuesday now is Open Office day: hop on a (video) chat and ask question or just hang out.

RxOmnibar

Announcing the Swift Package separation of Omnibar and RxOmnibar.

“Find My” Python and Swift Libraries

FindMy.py allows you to register a new programmatic client and query the Apple “Find My” network.

Apple Music App: Android APK Direct Download

How to listen to your Apple Music subscription on an Android device

Gus Continues to Work on Acorn

20 years after starting to work on Acorn, Gus Mueller still works on Acorn as an independent developer.

Org-Mode Emphasis Keymap with Mnemonics

I do not like how org-mode’s emphasis function works, requiring knowledge about the syntax to apply bold and italic and inline code style correctly. Here’s a solution that uses ‘b’ for bold etc.

Swift Concurrency Provides Compile-Time Feedback for Runtime Behavior

Read this introduction to Swift Concurrency. You need it.

Iterating Through Realities

Refactoring is bending reality over and over until you finally make the actual change. It’s exhausting.

Pi-hole on Unraid (as Local DNS to Access NAS Services Without a Roundtrip to Cloudflare)

My Nextcloud and a couple of other sync services are exposed to the internet via a reverse proxy, and I reach them via a Cloudflare tunnel and a custom domain. That Cloudflare round-trip doesn't make sense while I’m home, so with Pi-hole as DNS, I directly connect to my NAS for LAN speeds.

TableFlip v1.7.0 Releases with Modern Icons

New icons and UI for TableFlip, the visual Markdown and CSV and LaTeX and JSON and HTML table editor!

Percent-Encode HTML Form Values so That Spaces Become ‘%20’ Instead of ‘+’

You can use HTML forms to dispatch actions to custom macOS app URL schemes, but you need to encode the form data yourself to avoid surprises.

Global Day of Code Retreat 2024 Retrospective

Nov 9th, 2024 was Global Day of Code Retreat. I found that people are the actually hard thing in programming.

Running Unsigned Applications on macOS Sequoia

“Open Anyway” for unsigned apps is now located in settings.

Composition Over Inheritance in NSViews

I noticed that I’m writing some AppKit/UIKit view components in a composable way that reminds me of the opaque nature of SwiftUI.View-conforming types: hiding away the actual 1st party APIs, providing very little surface area.

Alex Ozun: Type-Driven Design with Swift (SwiftCraft 2024)

The talk “Type-Driven Design with Swift” by Alex Ozun covers interesting topics and presents type-based solutions to software development problems in an easy-to-grasp way.

Checklists Appreciated Under Stress

Giving birth to a child includes managing stressed-out hospital staff, too. Checklists would’ve helped along the way at every turn. And they still help me to get stuff done in an otherwise unorganized daily routine.

Typed Filters and callAsFunction

Combining three Swift features for the sake of expressivitiy: sum types aka enums, callAsFunction to introduce “callable” semantics, and type extensions to beautify call sites.

Fairphone Fairbuds Are a Great Idea (Only)

I tried to get the Fairphone Fairbuds to work, but failed. I still like the idea. But the UX and execution is terrible.

Expecting a Child

A formal request for tips and tricks.

Pretty-Printing Variables, Objects, and Functions in JavaScriptCore

A JavaScript function for debugging that stringifies an object including its functions so you can evaluate the result again.

PSA: SwiftUI Button Click-Through Fixed in macOS 15

SwiftUI non-bordered button styles don't support click-through up to macOS 15, but are fixed with the upcoming macOS release.

It’s Never Just a Something

Find yourself dealing with primitive value types a lot? There’s a term for that.

Logical Ranges and Character Ranges

Text editing is different from text inspection, and I believe I'm on the path towards a more expressive domain.

Embark: Display Buffer in Dedicated Side Window

Show any buffer in a side-window (aka a sidebar, but also potentially at the bottom) of an Emacs frame. Includes Embark key bindings to do this from a buffer list.

Create Journal Note For a Previous Day in denote.el

TLDR: Customize denote-prompts. The longer version shows you how to discover this based on the code on your own if you're in a similar situation.

MacMenuBar – Directory of Hundreds of Menu Bar Apps

Invaluable resource to see trends in menu bar app UIs and to discover cool tools: macmenubar.com lists 950+ menu bar apps (as of June 2024)

The Rake and Its Prongs

We don’t think about this as we write: the blinking cursor tells a useful lie about what the text looks like, so we can work on an abstraction that is about the space between characters, and especially the space after the last character.

The Communication Tradeoff

As a software developer, I want to understand the code, so that I can implement changes for our users. How do we get there?

If You Use KOMA-Script, Really Do Use KOMA-Script

The KOMA-Script LaTeX package bundle may be typical German over-engineering, but when it works, it really works.

Fold Search Results Away in rg.el

Whenever you want to fold away content in an Emacs mode that doesn't support this out of the box, consider using outline-minor-mode. Here’s how I did that to make rg.el

Declarative Text Kit: Word Ranges

Writing a somewhat language-agnostic detector of word boundaries is no small feat.

Hide macOS Menu Bar Icons (Bartender Alternatives)

macOS app Bartender changed owners without any notice, and users are abandoning ship for lack of trust. Here are some alternatives.

Declarative Text Kit: Token-Based Adapters

With a semantic FencedCodeBlock type added to my app, performing changes on existing code blocks is not procedural anymore. It is now a one-liner.

Declarative Text Kit: Reduction in Ugly Code Size

Great news: This week’s v0.3 release of the Package is good enough to implement the feature I wanted to build!

Declarative Text Kit: Expression and Evaluation

To declare changes in the DSL, we need a vocabulary of expressions and sort of a grammar. With Result Builders, this is surprisingly simple.

Swift Package: FastSpring In-App Purchase

I published a Swift Package to embed a FastSpring-powered store within my apps.

Declarative Text Kit: Inserting Strings and Lines With a Result Builder

Swift Result Builders make the declarative Text Kit API quite nice to work with once you know what you want to do. Here’s how I got over the initial humps.

It's Easier With Meaning

Some habits are hard to break. It is easier if you have meaningful alternatives.

Declarative Text Kit: Sketch of an API

I was fed up with writing long procedures to perform markup changes on the fly. This post contains an API that looks like something I would like to use.

Use and Then Reduce Open Source Dependencies

Dependencies make you quick. Dependencies also slow you down.

Zettelkasten (Not) Needed?

As the saying goes, if the title of a post is a question, the answer is “no”. So, do you, or don’t you need a Zettelkasten in your life?

Table View Cells from Nib: How to Change the Blueprint Data to Affect New Cells

Deep dive into where the little cells come from, the old school way: Inspecting call stacks, probing default objects. The goal is to change how cells spawn from Nibs.

Dynamic Actor Isolation Can Help During the Transitional Phase

On your way to static actor isolation, adopt dynamic isolation practices to ease into the change.

Niki Tonsky: Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

Vertical centering, baseline alignment, visual horizontal centering. Nothing is easy.

Always Be Changing Existing Code

Ever thought that your good idea from today will be the worst nightmare of your future self? The future not realized may actually be worse.

SwiftUI Kata: Recreating DebugInfo Viewer

Recreating the “DebugTest Info” app from the Mac OS X era from Technical Note TN2124 in SwiftUI with macOS Sonoma default styling.

Enable SwiftUI Button Click-Through for Inactive Windows on macOS

Buttons in macOS windows both activate a background window and perform the button action with one click. That so-called click-through behavior breaks with almost all SwiftUI button styles, including custom ones. Here is a fix.

“Soulslike”

Soulslike games are characterized by their high difficulty level, where success depends on learning from failures and mastering the mechanics. You know what else shares this?

Masterclass of Decoupling: Diablo II Resurrected

Diablo II Resurrected has 3D graphics, but it’s actually the same game, as far as you can take the meaning of “same” without running from the original discs.

Negate KeyPath<T, Bool> Values with not()

Here is a simple free function to invert boolean values for all you Swift KeyPath fans out there.

Disable XeLaTeX Character Sequence Mappings for Inverted Question Mark and Inverted Exclamation Mark

Some simple ASCII character sequences in TeX files become fancy Unicode characters like curly quotes or em-dashes. Disabling some of these so-called mappings can be a pain. Easy with pdfLaTex/LuaLaTeX, hard with XeLaTeX.

You Absolutely (Do Not) Need to Comment Your Code

Comments in code are useless. And commented code is the best.

Ship Custom Fonts within a Swift Package

You can treat font files like any other resource, but you need to use Core Text API to load them in your app. That isn’t as complicated as I feared. Here’s how.

Easing Into a Language and Environment: Week 3 with PHP

A short retrospective of learning a new-ish language and the programming environment.

Oh, You're Making Apps, So You Are Working for Apple/Google/...?

The ultimate litmus test: Can your mother tell apart “creating apps for iPhone” from “working for Apple”?

SwiftUI Challenge: Can You Port this from Auto Layout to SwiftUI?

“Der Teilweise” proposed an interesting benchmark to see whether SwiftUI is production ready. Takes 10 minutes to do in Auto Layout. How long do you need for SwiftUI?

3 Types of FastSpring Storefronts

For app developers, there are three basic FastSpring storefronts you can use to sell your apps quickly.

How to Disallow GPTBot Crawling in robots.txt

You need to tell GPTBot to stop crawl your website if you don’t want it to. Here is how.

Developer Voices on Property-Based Testing Made Me Realize PBT’s Value

Maybe Kris Jenkins and Oskar Wickström made Property-Based Testing click for me. Here are my personal insights to maybe color you intrigued as well.

TableFlip v1.6.0: JSON Support and Font Resizing

TalbeFlip v1.6.0 is released, a free update for direct customers and Mac App Store users. It finally brings resizable fonts, and a first glimpse towards JSON support.

Portable Every-Day-Carry Paper Kanban

You don’t need a computer or smartphone to use a Kanban board: here’s an approach to do it all with simple, affordable, and fun paper tools.

Splitting Large Tasks is not a Mathematical Process

You’re in a team meeting. You estimate a task to be worth 13 story points, which is a lot in your team, so you break it up into two tasks. The first one is estimated to be worth 8 story points. What’s the second one worth?

SwiftUI Field Guide

Chris Eidhof released an interactive, animated resource to understand SwiftUI.

Looking for Testers: Typers of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Characters

Do you routinely work with text typeset in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean characters? Do you type these yourself? I'm looking for testers!

Example of Object Tag vs Topic Tag in Programming Zettelkasten

A (hopefully instructive) example of topic vs object tags in a Zettel about programming topics.

When Actions of NSSegmentedControl in Toolbars Do Not Fire In Their Overflow Menu Item State, Do This

Turns out that even when the overflow menu items look clickable, not all of them actually fire an event. You need to tell the NSMenuItem about its action.

Life Hack: Label Your Trash Bins

This 1 weird hack will annoy the hell out of all the trash bin bag producers!

32-Bit Cafe: Personal Website Ideas

Inspiration for personal websites: topics, design tweaks, and playfulness.

Low App Prices are Preemptive Excuses

Developers see how their product falls short from the ideal, and so they instinctively charge a lower price than they could (and maybe should).

Have You Ever Sent an Email with a File Attachment that is Located on a Server?

This is a tale of convergence of Embark, TRAMP, and email to brainlessly just send a file from somewhere to someone.

Transformative Reading ... 2017 Edition?!

A new year, so let us talk about favorite books (or at least those I wrote down to mention), but from 7 years ago.

ChatGPT Shell: Confirm Before Closing and Split Compose Buffer

Tweaks to my chatgpt-shell configuration.

Emacs sqlite-mode to Open .sqlite Files Automatically

.sqlite files render “graphically” in Emacs, but only if you open them manually with the equivalent of a file picker dialog; that is unacceptable, and I propose a solution that opens the graphical view for SQLite database files when you visit the files automatically.

Cold-Blooded vs Warm-Blooded Software

You cannot run cold-blooded projects as warm-blooded ones. There is not enough activity “to keep the temperature up”. But cold-blooded projects are great to keep around for years and years.

You Can Choose When You Live in Surplus

You decide what constitutes “enough”, and when you reach that point.

Timestamps with Weekdays

I found ISO dates to be lacking in context in notes that represent timelines. So I am trying out something a tad different, like [2024-01-01 Mon].

Show Organic Traffic in TelemetryDeck the Simple Way with a Values Breakdown Insight

Find out how to effectively set up and use TelemetryDeck to filter website views by referrer, focusing on organic traffic sources. This is a much simpler way than the geeky query language approach from last time, no weird coding required.

Using Type Markers for 'is' Type Predicates to Cover Generic Types

Wrestling with generics and is type checks in Swift? Consider using (empty) protocols as type markers instead.

Dependency Injection via Protocol Composition

Declaring dependencies as protocols, then combine via '&'.

Update for modus-themes v4 and mlscroll.el Colors

The mlscroll Emacs package got an update that makes styling it even simpler.

Ignore Generated Xcode .xcworkspace Files in Git Except Package.resolved

To tell your teammates’ Xcode that packages need to be updated after a pull, check in the resolved packages file from within the Xcode project bundle. Here are git ignore rules to help you with that.

Show Referrers in TelemetryDeck for Web with a TopN TQL Query

TelemetryDeck can act as a lightweight and GDPR-compliant website analytics tool. But you need to create some things yourself, like computing a list of top referrers. Here’s how you do that with a TQL query.

TableFlip v1.5.1

TableFlip v1.5.1 comes with many HTML and exporting tweaks!

Transforming JSON to Tables: the Impedance Problem

There’s a mismatch between the nested object structure of JSON and tabular data. But there's hope.

How Long Does a Disk Preclear in Unraid Take for 12TB of Data?

Spoilers: it takes 3 whole days.

Embracing the AppKit Ways

After starting the day with a pro-SwiftUI rant, to my surprise I end it with an embrace of traditional, tested and true AppKit patterns.

Not Quite 100% SwiftUI – Time Makes Perfect

Marin Todorov's “A 100% SwiftUI App” talk from this year's Swift Heroes went life (and it's really worth the half hour!)

TableFlip v1.5.0 Released

This update brings HTML export, more LaTeX export options, and much improved performance!

Sparkle v2.5 Adds Relevant Version Highlighting to Release Notes

With Sparkle v2.5, you can ship release notes for multiple versions, and then use CSS to hide outdated information from the user.

Portable Painter Micro Palette

As a birthday gift, I got the Portable Painter Micro watercolor palette with some new colors. Here’s my first sketch with it.

UserDefaults.register(defaults:) Is a Bit Like Nil-Coalescing

Mental model: registering fallback values for UserDefaults is like Optional coalescing in Swift.

Year 36, a 🎂 Retrospective

Some bullet points (and stats) about my previous year in life.

Kill Unsaved Emacs Buffers UX: Replacing Yes/No/Save with Meaningful Options

Since Emacs 29, I'm being asked if I want to save or discard an unsent mail in a very confusing way. I found a fix.

The Missing Array.appending(contentsOf:)

There is no immutable append variant to concatenate two Arrays, or Strings, or other collections in the Swift standard library. Here is one.

Making Your App Extensible with JavaScriptCore: Annotated Presentation with Full Transcript

Last year's presentation slides with the full talk transcript for my JavaScriptCore plugin approach.

SwiftData: Store Image Data, but Actually Outside the Database

Use the @Attribute(.externalStorage) option to save binary data with SwiftData but outside the database.

Async XCTest Assertion Helpers

The missing XCTAssert helpers that support async calls: AsyncAssertTrue(try await shouldSucceed())

Cocoa AppKit Responder Chain

Summary of how the responder chain is traversed on macOS to have events bubble up.

SwiftUI.View Is Your ViewModel

Hypothesis: You already have a View Model when you work with SwiftUI, which is the View type itself.

Decoupling SwiftUI.View Configuration from Layout and Action Handling

Decoupling introduces independence, which means the de-coupled pieces can change independently. Even in the smallest view component, this can bring tangible real-world improvements.

Inverted E-Mail Blockquotes

I sometimes receive email where people (accidentally?) quote themselves, not my original text, and I can't figure out why.

Super Saturday Sharefest: Matt Massicotte's XPC Work

Shout-out to Matt Massicotte for sharing yet another XPC and Concurrency related open source package!

WordCounter v1.6.6 Released

A maintenance update with minor visual changes.

macOS Sonoma Menu Section Headers Look a Bit Off

The new NSMenu section headers feel like they violate the principle of proximity in visual design.

Swift Package Import in Objective-C Might Just Work

Unbeknownst to me, you can @import Swift Packages in Objective-C files just fine!

SwiftUI.List with Menu with Plain Button Style Breaks Event Loop

Super weird edge case: the plain button style makes interacting with the menu all but freeze the app. (FB12285575)

How to Inspect SwiftUI.TextField.onSubmit and Figure Out You Can't Programmatically Use It

I looked for a way to trigger the onSubmit block in my own code, but none of my approaches bore fruit.

Swift Pattern Matching with Extra Conditions, and the Value of Syntax Summaries

Natalia Panferova of nilcoalescing.com posted “Swift enum pattern matching with extra conditions”: I believe there’s value in reviewing summaries like these for advanced Swift programmers!

11 or so Android Ebook Reader Apps for Academic Writing Workflows: Annotations are Hard

I tested a bunch of Android EPUB reader apps to see if annotations would work with my Zettelkasten workflow. The result: it’s not easy to improve the workflow.

BOOX Vector PDFs Are Already Colored

Ok, no need to investigate further: PDFs are colored if you use color pens, so I'm now just using that instead of replacing colors in the PDF source.

Colorize Onyx BOOX Notes Vector PDFs (Really Rough Edition)

I wanted to colorize greyscale vector notes. This led me down a rabbit hole of replacing color definitions in the PDF’s source code.

Boox NeoReader Annotation Export Is Meh

The Onyx Boox e-reader is equipped with a good e-book reader app, but its export is almost useless to parse and use in an academic context.

Safari URL Scheme for macOS and iOS

Replace https: with x-safari-https:, and you can open a link in Safari, no matter the user's default browser.

Detach Xcode Console -- via Terminal

Wrap HTML Tables in Figures using Nanoc and Kramdown

On mobile phones, wide tables didn’t scroll horizontally – instead, they broke out of the content container and everything looked a bit wonky. So I wrap them in <figure> elements now.

Website Rank in Common Crawl's C4 AI Dataset

Fetch Personalized Command Explanations with 'um' from Your Terminal

Create FastMail Masked Email Addresses with maskedemail-cli

VIPER Added to the Wiki

Copilot for Xcode Works Okay

TableFlip v1.4.1 Released

PSA: FileManager.trashItem (Maybe) Uses NSFileCoordinator Under the Hood Automatically, So You Shouldn't to Prevent Deadlocks

Xcode Requires A Lot of Data for Swift Package Resolution

Getting to Know Jetpack Compose by Comparing Concepts with SwiftUI (Markus Müller's CocoaHeads Leipzig Presentation)

Dictionary.init to Make Use of Swift.Identifiable

The Difference between Entity and Value Object, and How They Relate to Swift's Identifiable and Equatable Protocols

woolsweater's SF Symbols Modeline

Use San Francisco Font for SF Symbols Everywhere in Emacs

Display a Random Inspiring Quote for Journaling or Shell Prompts

Migrating to modus-themes v4 and Going Through the Changes

How to Use SF Symbols in Emacs (for Tab Numbers)

Early 2022, I shared how I used circled digit unicode in tabs; here's how to use SF Symbols on macOS to get even better-looking results.

Better org-mode Agenda display-buffer-alist Settings

Making Your App Extensible with JavaScriptCore (CocoaHeads Presentation)

Manage Org Agenda-Related Buffers via display-buffer-alist

ChatGPT: Publish NSTextView Changes to ReSwift, but Also Use a Lamport Clock

Conversation log with ChatGPT.

Dec 3 and Dec 4: EmacsConf 2022 Live

Use System File Open Dialog for File Actions in Emacs (Just Once!)

Mutating Struct and State Observers: How the Latter Will Be Notified Even for 'No-Ops'

Wiki Updates for Nov 29th

Org-Mode Outline Levels 9+

Gitea Ltd. Takes Over Gitea Open Source Project, Community Pushes Back

CocoaHeads Talk about JavaScriptCore Plugins on Thursday 2022-11-24, 7 p.m.

Smooth Scrolling in a Table View for Custom Shortcuts

There Could Be No “Later”

NSTableView Variable Row Heights Broken on macOS Ventura 13.0

Variable row heights are broken on Ventura’s initial release. In macOS 15 Sequoia, the same feature may produce blurry text.

macOS Ventura App Compatibility

Sketch Employees for Hire

Sketch Layoff of 80 Employees — Does It Really Send an Alarming Signal?

NSTextView (Plain Text) and the Pasteboard: PasteboardType.string Is Not Handled

Overview of Attribute Fixing in NSTextStorage

'Black Box' Unifies Software Modeling in Modules

Example of High Cohesion and Low Coupling with Presenter, View, and View Model

How to Fix When Some Text Changes Don't Come with Automatic Undo?

Reactive Code is Sequentially Cohesive

Delete to Beginning of Line in Emacs to Rewrite Code

10 Year Indieversary AMA Postmortem

Replacing zoom-window with winner-mode to Temporarily Change Window Splits in Emacs

Wiki and Website Updates

10 Year Indieversary: AMA On Sep 6th

SwiftUI Isn't Easy to Get Into: My Road From Headache Towards Mastery

Drawing Studies: Tonal Values

Rely on @Published Property Wrapper Events, Not the Observed Object

Schedule End of the Work Day Using Org

Output Port Adapter for Single Point of Configuration in Complex UI

Emacs Blogging: Insert Tag from YAML Frontmatter Posts

Disambiguate Code Signing Identities

New Library Pages

TDD Is About Writing Counter-Factual Statements

Key Binding to Select Paragraph or Org Element

TableFlip v1.4.0 Released

DevCleaner for Xcode

Mac App Notarization Workflow in 2022

Shift-Click in Emacs to Select – A Simple Change With a Complex History

Free Cmd-W in Magit to Close the Buffer

Magit's Killer Feature #1: Commit Text Completion Based on the Diff

@EnvironmentObject Is a Branched Global Variable

Happy People = Mac Users

Link Your Website to Mastodon via Metadata

Dependency Injection and the Tree of Knowledge

PSA: TextKit 2 Has Bugs

STTextView: A TextKit 2 Text Editor without NSTextView

Clean Downloads Folder on Mac with Hazel

Weak Self -- Closure Rules of Thumb

TextKit 2 Example App from the Apple Docs

How to Upgrade Sendy from Version 5 to 6 from the Shell via SSH

Center Window on the Current Monitor in Emacs, Simplified

Transient Menus Galore

Fixing Our Recent Xcode 13.3.x Dependency Cycle Errors

How to Assemble Menu Bar App Screenshots for Mac App Store

Aergrind by Knock Coffee Grinder, and Their Amazing Customs Duty Service

Add Any Directory to project.el's List of Projects

Get Your xcode.tips Card Printouts!

Prioritize hl-line Highlight Over Neotree Faces

More Swifty NSAttributedString Attribute Query Methods

Context Menu in Magit Status Buffers

The Playdate's Docs Are Made with More Love Than Most End Products

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Move! Work Break Timer Update 1.3.0

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WebcamSnap Open Source Library Released

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SwiftyBeaver: Record to Array

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“Bugs are the edges of what works”

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Refactoring – Extract Objects Horizontally or Vertically

Framework Oriented Programming and It's Relation to OOP

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Always Pay Attention to Implications of Technical Advice

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It's the Worst Time to Go Open Source Because So Many Stupid People Will See It

Open Source and the Open, Distributed Mindset

Dan Counsell's Mac App Store Wish List

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Debugging NSBeep Error Sound in NSResponder Method Calls

BundleHunt Experiment

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Resolving NSTreeController's "Ambiguous use of 'children'" in Swift 3

Let Them Perish

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My Declarative Breakthrough: Wherein I Stop Thinking in Terms of Object Collaboration

How to Refactor Messy Apps for a New Architecture?

MVVM's Place in Your App

Developer Documentation App Dash Removed from App Store – and No-One Can Do a Thing

TableFlip Launches

Apple Introduces Search Ads

Breaking NSLocale API Changes Revisited

Magic Numbers Represent Concepts

Swift 2.3 NSLocale UIKit API Changes Break iOS 8 Compatibility

On Proprietarity of File Formats

Comment On "Real World Flux Architecture on iOS"

TableFlip Will Be Released in October!

Tests Are Just Code, Too

Global State Was Preferred Because Typing Sucks

Programmer, Interrupted

On Software Feedback

Assertions in Swift Kill Your Code

Switch VS Checkbox in User Interface Design

Putting ReSwift Actions on the Undo Stack Using Middleware

When You Code, You Design Both Structure and Information Flow

MVVM Is Quite Okay at What It Is Supposed to Do

Racing To the Top

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NSDocument Weirdness: Sheet Contents Appear Disabled

Ownership of the Apps You Use: Ulysses App Pricing, Subscription Models, and the Death of Licenses?

On Reaching Mastery

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Implementing CollectionType in Swift 2.x

Revamped Blog Archive

Splitting the View Models of TableFlip, a Short Aftermath

I'll Split Up the Monolithic View Model in TableFlip. Here's What I Expect to Happen

How PlanGrid uses a Flux-Inspired Architecture to Simplify State Management

TIL: How to Make NSTextView Reject Newlines

Iteratively Improving Your App: Decoupling Components at Module Seams and Adding Facades

First Contact with AppKit for iOS Developers (Under the Radar #26)

I love Swift's Expressiveness

UIStackView For Showing And Hiding User Interface Controls

Conflicting Mental Models in TableFlip's Interface Design

Separating ReSwift Actions from UI Events

TableFlip Closed Beta Invitations

Check Boxes in AppKit

Location Matters

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Disabling Segments in a NSSegmentedControl in a Toolbar

How to Create a Segmented NSToolbarItem like Apple Mail.app

Coding TableFlip: the Bigger Picture

Configuration Objects and the Then Microframework

Principles of Object-Oriented Design in Swift 2.2

TIL You Can Cancel Enqueued GCD Blocks

Hustling

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Custom Enumerated Sequences in Just 1 Line of Code

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Swift Depends on Objective-C

Outperforming the Competition

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How to Abort a Chain of Rake Tasks on Error

How to Get Started with Swift: Write New Tests in Swift

App Pricing and How to Make More Money

What I Did When I Found Emojis in Strings Always Lost the Last Byte

Replacing Loops with Mapped Ranges

Type-Safe Storyboard Segues

Productivity Tips for Programmer Solopreneurs

The Power of Guard

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Refactoring to Clean Value Transformations in Swift

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Currying and Treating Instance Methods as Curried Functions

The Swift Developer's Cookbook Review

5 Heuristics for "I have a complicated nested view controller setup. How do I handle passing data?"

Swift Selector Syntax Sugar

Book Updates for Swift 2.2

Translate Optional Delegate Protocol Methods to Swift Block-based Event Handlers Using Nested Objects

Blocks: Useful to Perform Actions In Context

VIPER by Experience: How to Set Up an iOS Project

How I Toggle or Switch 2 NSMenuItems from the Main Menu

Extend View Controllers with Behavior Objects Right from Within Interface Builder

Creating a Cheap Protocol-Oriented Copy of SequenceType (with a Twist!)

Announcing TableFlip

How to Create Fixture Files for Unit Tests

Creating a Lens for an Object to Provide a New Public Interface

A Vacation Week – 20% Discount While I'm Away!

Reusable View Components from Nibs

Featherweight Router

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Ignoring UILocalNotifications When the App is Running

rethrows in Swift

MVC on iOS Done Right

My Desk 2016

How do You Really Mock Objects You Don't Own? You Replace Them with Adapters

DevMate is Completely Free Now

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Information Flow and Stateful Buttons

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Publish and Subscribe — Decoupling Deep View Hierarchies from Event Handlers

Inline Blocks as Result-Producing Helpers

Extract Private Functions as Collaborators

Symmetry

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Always Write Functions to Cope with all Possible Parameter Values

Use and Misuse of Helper Functions

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Make Money Outside the Mac App Store now Available on Amazon

Move! Review at Softpedia

Mind Node adds Tasks

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ReSwift, Law of Demeter, and Another Level of Indirection

Events as Declarative State

Extending Types with a Conversion Factory: Where Should You Put It?

I'll be writing a Word Counter Swift module fully East-Oriented

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Separating State from State Changes

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Segues: How to Use Them While Saving Lines of Code

Separate Read Model from Write Model to Support Complex Forms

iOS View Architectures and VIPER Explained

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Configuration Objects: Delegate Initialization to a Parameter

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Tips to Conquer Massive View Controllers

Ruby 2.3 Will Have Optional Chaining

Jiggle GCD Queues to Find Problems

Modeling: From Structured Data Representation to Problem Domain

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Core Data Calls Them Contexts for a Reason

Ideas to Solve Background Fetching and Saving Race Conditions with Core Data

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Optional Protocol Methods in Swift using Closures and No Protocol, Actually

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Move! – Work Break Timer Now Ready for El Capitan

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Testing Shorthand: Use a Subclass of the Real Object Under Test

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Using Guard in Unit Tests

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Dismissing a Modally Presented Scene on Both iPad and iPhones Using Unwind Segues

Weird EXC_BAD_ACCESS in Swift 1.2 Was Due to A Compiler Bug

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How Coursera Uses VIPER to Architect Transitions Between App Features

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How I prepare Calendar Paste E-Mail Pitches

Protocol Madness: Comparing Apples to Oranges from the Vantage Point of Fruit

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Swift Extensions and Information Hiding

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Book Updates for Swift 1.2

Functional Programming in Swift (YouTube Videos)

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Painless Event Delivery With a Custom Publish-Subscribe Infrastructure

Save Your Butt in Unit Tests With Shallow Reaching

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Calendar Paste 2 is now Open Source

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Idea Indexes of Books Flickr Group

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New Zettelkasten Blog Is Now Open

Self-Fulfillment and Growing Up

Composing and Revising – The Two Modes of Writing

Word Counter v1.1.0 – Now With Daily Usage Statistics

Challenge: Apply the Knowledge Cycle to Reading a Single Book

Feed for All Zettelkasten Posts

New Article Overview

Use a Short Knowledge Cycle to Keep Your Cool

Edit HTML with TextEdit for Mac

Word Counter (Mac) is Available Right Now!

Make Writing a Part of Your Identity

How to Track Your Writing Progress

Include Images in nvALT for a Multi-Media Zettelkasten Experience

Developing a Word Counter for Mac – Apply as a Tester

Tapping Test app released

Calendar Paste v2.1.0 released

How I use Outlines to Write Any Text

Building Blocks of a Zettelkasten

The Zettelkasten Platform – 2 Ways You Can Contribute

SlipBox (Mac) Note Archive Review

Lessons Learned from Losing All Routine

Using nvALT as a Zettel Note Archive

Baseline for Zettelkasten Software Reviews

The Need to Craft

Calendar Paste 2.0 – the iOS 7 Update

Reading Habits: Putting It All Together

You Only Find What You Have Identified

Learn Faster by Writing Zettel Notes

Editorially is Shutting Down. What About Alternatives?

Note-Taking when Reading the Web and RSS

Count Your Words to Increase Your Productivity

Looking for Alpha Testers

The Collector’s Fallacy

How to Make Daily Writing Practice Useful

I Enabled Comments for Some Posts

Preparing Fragments Helps You to Ease Into Writing

Extend Your Mind and Memory With a Zettelkasten

Announcing a Zettelkasten Info Product

Manage Citations for a Zettelkasten

Solve database mapping problems and the impedance problem of ActiveRecord

Ruby RSpec/Guard/Spork Project Boilerplate

Create Zettel from Reading Notes

Unlock 802.1X wired internet via OpenWRT on TP-Link WA901ND

Making Proper Marks in Books

Create a Zettelkasten for your Notes to Improve Thinking and Writing

gitlogger Improved

Generate interactive documentation with Code Guide

My Workspace

Prototypes for Calendar Paste

Calendar Paste.app development notes (Series)

Outlining and Plain Text

Rails.js XHR form callbacks fixed for invalid submissions

Sales and AppLaunch.us experience for Calendar Paste

Birthday of my deceased baby brother

CriticMarkup and a TextMate Bundle

Interlude: first month of app sales

App Sales and Hourly Earnings Calculated

Parsing YAML Frontmatter in Ruby

Nanoc3 Boilerplate

Interactive Guide to Blog Typography

Link Love: practicallyefficient.com

Calendar Paste release

Remove Objective-C method declaration fluff with Keyboard Maestro

iOS Project coming soon

nvALT review

MultiMarkdown 3.0b1

Awesome new Notational Velocity

Bringing Notational Velocity to a new level of massive text editing

Multi-Markup Notational Velocity

How did Steve add Markdown to Notational Velocity?

Too many Notational Velocity forks?

Notational Velocity fork with fullscreen mode, menubar app, and more

Markdown HUD for Notational Velocity

Markdown Preview for Notational Velocity

Introducing MultiMarkdown Notational Velocity