Samar Sunkaria

macOS @grammarly, Swift Lang Enthusiast and Tinkerer. prev: Passwords app & Authentication Experience @apple 🔑

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

Got Swift compiling into an app for the Flipper Zero!

Had been wanting to do this for a while now—finally got the time.

[Stephan Casas @stephancasas]

Sick of closing crash reports every time Xcode dies?

You can swap the standard modal window in macOS for a less-intrusive notification:

𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖.𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚎.𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚄𝚜𝚎𝚄𝙽𝙲 -𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚈𝙴𝚂

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸

New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 https://t.co/uCMvELfxlB

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@stephancasas @sdoowhsoj @isolatedtech Talking about accessibility, Atlas doesn’t seem to compute the accessibility tree for its web content in response to setting AXEnhancedUserInterface on the application. Is that intentional?

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@Dimillian @Barbapapapps You can always use whatever ButtonStyle you want in a custom PrimitiveButtonStyle.

[JustZht @JustZht]

Another daily reminder that you can draw glassy Text since the #SwiftUI glassEffect modifier accepts arbitrary Shapes - just convert Fonts into Shapes if you are willing to go deep into CoreText and tinker with CTFontCreatePathForGlyph.

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@KyleSwifter What unspeakable horrors led you to summon UrgentMainQueueKit into existence? 😅

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@alamfahim1998 @D_E_A_T_H_R_A_Y @backbone I have an app on the phone which effectively serves the same purpose as the Backbone app, i.e. communicating with the controller using the external accessory framework. I build the appropriate binary messages to establish a connection with the controller and ask it to launch apps

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

Hacked the @backbone controller to launch the new #iOS26 Games app instead of the Backbone app when the backbone button is pressed!

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@yvesrj Ah you here with them ChatGPT dashes… 😅

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@D_E_A_T_H_R_A_Y @backbone Figured out (parts of) the protocol that the Backbone app uses to communicate with the controller. The controller is responsible for launching the app based on the bundle ID. I’m sending it the appropriate message to launch Games in response to pressing the Backbone button.

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@simonbs Honestly, it’s probably a good idea to file feedback requesting an exception for apps that already have accessibility permissions. The privacy consideration is moot for those apps.

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@simonbs Gonna be fun with pasteboard privacy: https://t.co/zFOutyUCzi

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@harlanhaskins @KyleSwifter @_silgen_name @_cdecl This is an unintuitive detail that would be nice to include in the readme. Really exciting work though @KyleSwifter :)

[Paul Hudson @twostraws]

Applications are currently open for three of Apple's Developer Academies around the world, in Naples, Detroit, and Riyadh. These programs are like rocket boosters for your app-building ambitions – you get hands-on mentoring in code, yes, but also for design and business.

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@KyleSwifter I can understand the appeal of 4 char codes, but that lowercase ‘r’ is wild

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

The Tim Cook Severance promo is wild because I always felt like the show could be about Apple - a company with such a deep, crazy culture of secrecy that they’d be the first to opt for severed employees in the workforce.

also, my work there was always mysterious and important

[Samar Sunkaria @Sameesunkaria]

@mysk_co “The icon may be obtained from that site by downloading the icon using two separate relays operated by different entities. […] This way, no single entity has the information to identify both you and the icons you download.”

https://t.co/pchyOQ32mO

[Ricky Mondello @rmondello]

The big idea behind passkeys is that passwords are _fundamentally broken_ and that solution to the problem is not to layer on top of them, but to replace them. Offering “passkeys” as a second factor confuses people and puts a false ceiling on the potential benefits.

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

Apple’s Passwords app makes it easy to replace your existing password manager https://t.co/YDWUrd8JFr by @iryantldr

[Ben Holmes @BHolmesDev]

Y'all are sleeping on the Apple Passwords app.
- One-time code generator
- Passkeys
- Autofill in Safari and Chrome (with extension)
- WiFi login management

Deleted my 1Password and haven’t looked back