While setting up a small cron-driven script to cache a weather API’s JSON output for serving over Nginx, I run into trouble getting git to preserve the script’s executable bit between macOS and an Ubuntu VPS. After git update-index –chmod=+x fails and toggling the filemode config setting only seems to work by accident, the root cause turns out to be a forgotten fact: macOS does support Unix file permissions, so a plain chmod before committing solves it...
My short guide to building a release version of a macOS app in Xcode and finding the resulting .app bundle. I cover creating a new scheme set to Release builds, running the build, and using “Show Build Folder in Finder” to locate the .app file so it can be copied into the Applications folder...
A short how-to on how I customize the default About dialog in a macOS app built with Xcode: add a Credits.rtf (or .html or .rtfd) file to the project, and its contents appear in the dialog after a rebuild...
Inspired by a StackTrace podcast episode about automating small development tasks, I built my first macOS app with SwiftUI: a utility that strips excess leading indentation from code copied out of Xcode, a chore I previously did by hand before pasting code samples into my blog posts. Screenshots show the paste-and-strip workflow, and I found the move from SwiftUI iOS development to macOS nearly effortless. My source code is linked...
