I am using the built-in project.el in Emacs to find files in various git-backed projects. But I also have a shared folder of blog post drafts with Sascha at zettelkasten.de that does not have any version control backing. I couldn’t get that folder to show up in project.el’s list because of that.
Dominik Hauser maintains the illustrated xcode.tips page I’ve mentioned on Twitter here and there because the graphics are just lovely and the tips are really useful to become a proficient user of Xcode. It’s a complex piece of software, and the illustrations capture a tip in a single graphic, with shortcuts and UI hints and all.
In hindsight, it looks like my quest to tweak how Emacs looks and feels is to make it more Mac-like. No wonder, because I really like the OS X-era UI. So I’m still using the system default selection highlight colors and want these everywhere.
NSAttributedString API takes an NSRange by-reference. That’s cumbersome to use, though, because you need to initialize a non-nil range, and there you should initialize it with NSNotFound to indicate an illegal state. Afterwards, you need to check if the range changed to a legal value.
I’m a very happy user of Magit, the amazing git frontend for Emacs. Today I noticed again that I miss one thing from GitUp, a GUI frontend for macOS, that I use when I’m selecting changes for a commit, discarding experimental file and line changes here and there in the process:
Michael Tsai shared a link to the Playdate’s Design Guidelines. The page blew me away. The Playdate is a handheld console that the team at Panic brought to live, and which you can actually buy since late last year.
Tyler Hall wrote about “Half-Assed Mac Apps” the other day. His argument goes like this: Catalyst made it easy to deploy iPad apps to the Mac. But iPad apps don’t make the best experience on Mac. Users end up with more apps, but a lot of them being “half-assed” Catalyst ports.