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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 […]
Annoying TextEdit Scroll Bar in Tahoe
susukang: This problem is already reported not only on Reddit but also on Apple Community. […] At least, one annoying problem is fixed that the scroll bar keeps moving to the right, which makes some letters on the left unreadable. Via Jeff Johnson: TextEdit rtf documents always appears horizontally scrolled with show ruler Always showing […]
TextEdit Love
Kyle Chayka (Hacker News): What I’ve accrued the most of by far, though, are TextEdit files, from the bare-bones Mac app that just lets you type stuff into a blank window. Apple computers have come with text-editing software since the original Mac was released, in 1984; the current iteration of the program launched in the […]
2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card
Jason Snell (complete commentary): It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to get a broad sense of sentiment—the “vibe in […]