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Mac App Store Search Not Showing Mac Apps

Jeremy Provost: When you search for Morpho, the App Store automatically flips you over to iPhone & iPad Apps, even though there’s a perfectly good Mac app that matches the search. To add insult to injury, searching for Morpho on the iPhone or iPad App Store does show our app first. But specifically because we’ve […]

Mac App Store Design in Tahoe

Tony Arnold: The attention to detail in Apple’s App Store app is just… not there. I draw your attention to the “Available on” subtitles below each app in the grid — they’re inconsistently truncated, some not even indicating that they are truncated. The spacing and padding also seems to be “best efforts” (check the device […]

App Store Comparison Shopping

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Hot on the heels of my previous blog post My collected App Store critiques, I have yet another critique. It’s undoubtedly old news to many people, my critique coming years too late, but in my defense, I almost never shop for apps in the App Store. Rather, I merely download apps in […]

Swift Testing With Event Streams

Matt Massicotte: The original implementation used XCTestExpectation to do it. […] At first, I thought that I could use Swift Testing’s confirmation system to handle this. […] But this had two problems. The obvious one is the nesting. I couldn’t figure out an easy way to avoid it. And in fact, my real code had […]

How to Replace Time Capsule

Howard Oakley: Tahoe no longer lets you start a new backup on a Time Capsule, nor it appears to any other store requiring HFS+ (Mac Extended) format. Time Capsule support is expected to end with macOS 26 Tahoe, as macOS 27 is unlikely to support AFP any more, so those Intel Macs compatible with Tahoe […]