Matt Reagan

iOS / macOS engineer. Formerly: @Apple, @Twitch, @BigNerdRanch

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App design tip: Xcode 10 includes image data when copying XIB controls to the clipboard. This means you can easily copy/paste pixel-perfect  UI into your UX mockups.

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@henrikruscon It wasn't really designed to be used that way, but I believe that should work fine, unless you exceed any limits imposed by the hardware (or Apple's AV framework)

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@MossRC @bill_appleton Yeah I didn't have any room left in my tweet to mention Marc Khadpe, but he deserves credit for the reverse-engineering work. I spoke to him briefly about the project many years ago, it sounded like quite an undertaking.

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@ChristianSelig @NachoSoto You can, but Xcode's window management is not the greatest and in practice it's often a hassle (IME) to maintain the separate window settings correctly, especially if you have a lot of custom Behaviors configured.

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@danielpunkass AppleScript - and HyperTalk - were both surprisingly powerful scripting languages. (I think HyperCard, in general, was one of the most "Apple" apps ever made. It exemplified so many core tenets of Jobs-era Apple.)

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@_mikesand @stroughtonsmith @nicklockwood Maybe I'm misunderstanding, seems like in Lion you'd just swap steps 2 & 3? (Make a copy first, then apply size & cropping to the new file). In any case, I've never felt at home with the changes they introduced in 10.7, and I still look for "Save As" in every app I'm using.

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@moiety_actual @pilky @stroughtonsmith It's been in Xcode for a while https://t.co/f4MB4gKCVj

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App design tip: Xcode 10 includes image data when copying XIB controls to the clipboard. This means you can easily copy/paste pixel-perfect  UI into your UX mockups.

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@steveriggins It's been a while since I was there but IIRC the Mac app was kind of a joke. It was not taken seriously internally or given any real attention. It was a web app with like 250MB of bundled frameworks just to allow it to launch.

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@MarioGuzman Oh man, I had so much fun with this app. This, along with apps like Flying Colors and Opening Night - huge fun, and really creative software for the time. Flying Colors had cycling color palettes, and Opening Night utilized the Mac's early text-to-speech. Really cool

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@Javi Super exciting news! Congratulations Javi!

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@ThisDoesNotComp I miss this era. Everything was so new, and exciting. People were doing such creative things with relatively limited means and hardware. And most of the world wasn't even paying attention yet. The 90's were a special time to be an Apple fan.

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@shoelessjp @lapcatsoftware Is it kernel_task? Reminds me of this post I read a while back, claiming that switching the charging point can actually solve the issue. I only skimmed it, so no idea if the theory is valid, but there's a pretty lengthy discussion: https://t.co/XENwXW7HPz

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@steipete The abstraction goal of NSImage was admirable but in practice it winds up being a fairly useless wrapper IME. For almost anything meaningful you usually need to dig into its -representations and grab the concrete NSImageRep you want and work with that directly.

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@rekerrsive @dotMorten @GE_Appliances Yeah this isn't unique to GE. When I bought my first home several appliances (various brands) broke in different ways. All of them wound up being cheaper to replace than repair. Not really surprising either with today's throwaway culture + planned obsolescence etc.

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@LeoNatan @DaveWoodX Yeah and I'm not disagreeing, but I do think that saying "what we have in iOS 14 is amazing" and "I love it despite its warts", to me, is quite different from labeling it as a "disaster" in iOS 14. Just 2 tweets among many, but that continued, repeated contrast is interesting.

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@dimsumthinking @steveriggins I went through this also. I purchased my CPAP machine out of pocket, because ironically it was cheaper to do that than to go through my insurance. Even though they covered it, the cost was so inflated that my copay was more than buying it myself outright.

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@steipete @thomvis Haven't used it before, but wouldn't OperationQueue.schedule(after:...) work? https://t.co/yK3oFbrI45