Mark Alldritt (Mastodon): I’ve released a new command-line tool called AEQuery. It queries scriptable macOS applications using XPath-like expressions, translating them directly into Apple Events. The short version: you describe what you want using a slash-delimited path, and AEQuery resolves the SDEF terminology, constructs the Apple Events, and returns the results as JSON. […] The […]

Howard Oakley: Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. […] I think this results from Time Machine’s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnected from their backup storage. […] If you do just set it […]

Rich Trouton: Using the log command line tool doesn’t require root privileges or require admin authorization, but it needs to be run by a user with admin rights. […] What this does is create a sudo configuration which allows all members of the staff group on the Mac, which is a group that has all […]

Todd Heberlein: The first bug report, FB21850924, covers a terrible memory leak in SwiftUI’s Table view, a feature our program uses a lot. […] Despite the rapid updates to the data, the sample program only keeps 1000 records in a deque, so the memory usage should bounded. Strangely, switching to another view triggers Swift to […]

Apple (RC xip, downloads, Hacker News): Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI. With agentic coding, Xcode can work autonomously toward a developer’s goals — from breaking down tasks to making decisions based on the project architecture, […]