Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Accessing the Unified System Log From a Standard User Account
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 […]
Tahoe SwiftUI Table Bugs
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 […]
Xcode 26.3
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, […]
Testing Tip: Always Show Scrollbars
Marcin Wichary: This scrollbar serves no purpose, so it will become visual noise for a lot of your users. But when you yourself use “shy” scrollbars, you might not even realize. Of course, the scrollbar is just a symptom of a bigger problem – an accidentally scrolling surface that will be janky to everyone regardless […]
SuperDuper 3.12
Dave Nanian: We’ve made some improvements to our scheduler to help mitigate some of the Tahoe “stalling during Dark Wake” problems. They’re not 100%, but things are better, and we’re investigating additional improvements for the next update. Previously: SuperDuper 4.0 Beta SuperDuper 3.10 Beta Works Around asr Bug