Peter Maurer

Jack of @ManyTricks · Trying to make it as a comic book artist seemed risky, so I played it safe and became an indie developer.

[Peter Maurer @petermaurer]

I wrote a blog post for the first time in years, about macOS 26 Tahoe's volume indicator. Which I also wrote an app about: https://t.co/9IaLHEKYfO

[Peter Maurer @petermaurer]

I didn't get around to posting this yesterday (release days keep you busy — who knew?), so here goes: Moom 4 is available now. There is always more to do, but I'm really happy with how it came out. https://t.co/2X55H5xEih

[Peter Maurer @petermaurer]

@icanzilb Thank you! I would indeed have missed this, because I’m sort of in social media limbo at the moment — not a Twitter regular anymore, but also haven’t joined Mastodon (or any alternatives) yet.

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@pusewicz Sorry for the late reply! I rarely check Twitter these days. But if you’re still interested, have a look at this page, and specifically, the "Force Moom to leave space at the left screen edge" section: https://t.co/oINXiDQSwP

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@iSapozhnik @eternalstorms @manytricks Technically, Moom doesn't intercept. What it actually does is a bit convoluted, and we'd rather not share details at this point. Sorry. 😇

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@iSapozhnik @eternalstorms @manytricks Moom uses its own non-menu popover, and it's not even an NSPopover. I'm not aware of a public API for a popover/menu hybrid like that.

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@rgriff Is the original iPhoto library (that the Photos library was created from as a weirdo hard link clone) still on her Mac? Does getting rid of it make any difference?

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@lapcatsoftware Sometimes it’s QuickLookUIService, at least for me.

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@daringfireball Congrats! That quote makes me wonder if the folks at Apple realized they want to talk to you even more often. :)

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@Catfish_Man I raise you QuickTime (QuickTime) vs. QuickTime X (not QuickTime).

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@nakosonagaret Explain? It’s read-only as long as you don’t edit. So you’re asking for a preference of sorts that keeps you from accidentally editing?

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Here's something really niche-y: Am I the only one who misses the pre-cfprefsd days, when we could change preferences by editing a plist file, rather than having to use defaults write?

No? Because…

[Peter Maurer @petermaurer]

@throost Neither, and ditto for any similar apps. Ever since cfprefsd became a thing, I grudgingly used the Terminal, until roughly a week ago.

[Peter Maurer @petermaurer]

@jamesthomson You pulled a reverse Akhenaten.

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@jamesthomson It’s always tough saying goodbye to the god object. 🥲

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@flo_muc Good points. The Zoom menu items were already there for Help viewing purposes, so this is just re-use. These things are indeed all related, though. I think the answer is extending the "Aa" popover into something that controls both font size and code format.

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@flo_muc That’s awesome news! Which one did you find? Edit > Format or context menu? (The former is an actual preference, while the latter only affects the current editing section.)

I had the switch in View for a while, but that seems wrong. Separate top-level menu?

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@throost Yeah, but that feels … wrong, doesn’t it? Preferee doesn’t kill cfprefsd. If you want to give it a try, download here: https://t.co/k74KI7BTLb

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@tempelorg I do now! And I like how they don’t compete head-on with the different approaches (outline vs. mere text editing). Download here: https://t.co/k74KI7BTLb

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Update: Made some improvements (optionally show all domains, other sidebar cosmetics) that justify a new public build. Download: https://t.co/k74KI7BTLb

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Other things worth pointing out:

- Especially useful for nested dictionary and array structures
- Can distinguish between sandbox vs. non-sandbox domain namesakes
- Syntax checking
- Syntax highlighting
- Monitors and reflects changes unless you're currently editing

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@ttepasse The old plist format lives on in the descriptions of NSArray and NSDictionary, as seen in log messages, for example. I like my added "shorthand" twist where line breaks can replace commas, though. Makes it much easier to reorder arrays, for example.