Brian Webster

@bwebster
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I’m an indie macOS developer creating apps such as PowerPhotos and PlistEdit Pro.


#Apple #Mac #Cocoa #Swift #SwiftUI

Companyhttps://www.fatcatsoftware.com
Bloghttps://www.brian-webster.net
Apple redesigned the Cracker Barrel logo, y’all.

Incels: A man must earn more than his woman. This shows dominance and commands respect. A man must be smarter than his women. This is easy, as testicles improve analytical thinking and make your brain good. Empathy is a weakness and a sin. Superman saving a squirrel is woke nonsense.🤡

Normal men:

Who the hell are these people who reply to an email 30 seconds after I send it? It's unnatural.
TIL the version of the Jaws theme on Apple Music has live lyrics. 😂
Hey, I’m on a podcast! Had a fun time chatting with with Stephen and David about PowerPhotos, iPhoto Library Manager, the early OS X days, AI coding, and a bunch of other Apple nerdery. https://relayfm.social/@mpu/115044706557425022
Mac Power Users :relayfm: (@mpu@relayfm.social)

Episode 810: Unlocking PowerPhotos with Brian Webster Brian Webster is the developer behind Fat Cat Software, home of PowerPhotos. The Mac app gives users a wide range of extra controls and tools to manage their Photos library. This week, he chats with Stephen and David about the app and its features. http://relay.fm/mpu/810

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This is the answer, the editor pane is a little buggy on how exactly you enter the image name, gotta select from the menu instead of just hitting enter. But this makes it work! https://mastodon.social/@mjtsai/115034746787889245
OK I'm trying to put icons in my menu items to be all Tahoe-y and it seems like adding them in a xib file just… doesn't work, at least for SF Symbols? I input the SF symbol name in the "Image" field, check the “Action Image (macOS 26+)" checkbox, the image shows up (hilariously large) on the canvas, but running the app there's a blank space where the image should be. Setting a non SF Symbol image seems to work OK. Has anybody gotten this to actually work?

OK Apple folks, got a fun feedback item, FB19647204

If you compile a macOS app using Xcode 26 beta (I've tried both 4 and 5) which loads an NSScrollView in a .xib file, when you try to launch the built app on macOS 15 or earlier, it crashes with an exception complaining about not finding the class '_TtCC6AppKit14NSScrollPocketP33_EC3F85FAB7755D56E669206D2B17725B12BackdropView'.

I think it's a bug in the xib compiler, which outputs a warning about this being an "unstable class name”.

got a teenage kid? do they use a computer to write, make art or music, code, or anything else creative?

is that computer included in your backup solution?

if not, please back it up.

when I was a teenager, long before cloud backups existed (we're talking the IDE HDD era here), I had a drive failure. I lost 5 years of programming projects. I don't know that anything in there would be useful today, but it was a record of my entry into the subject and two decades later I'm still sad about it.

Choose One and Boost Please

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