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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

Tahoe NSTableView Scrolling Bug

Sarah Reichelt (Mastodon): [When] I scrolled down from the top, the content rows would scroll into the header, making the top messy and unreadable. This sort of overlapping and unreadable text is a feature of the various OS 26s, but in this case, there wasn’t a hint of transparency, so it looked like a bug […]