11 April 2025

Finder Comments (Get Info) internals & bugs in macOS

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How to get (and modify) file comments If you use "Get Info" in macOS, you can edit a comment for the item (file or folder). If y...
16 December 2022

"Failed to Enable Personal Hotspot on iPhone" – finally, a solution

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Some of my older Macs running High Sierra or Mojave were unable to join the Personal Hotspot of one or even two of my iPhones. I searched th...
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19 February 2022

What I did in the past 2 years, programming related

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I had stopped to blog here in 2019 because I wasn't too happy with the blogging platform I'm using (Blogger). I was looking for al...
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30 June 2019

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TT's generic programming guidelines Declare your local variables close to where they're used Do not declare all your variables ...
11 May 2019

Cloning APFS Volumes & Containers ("APFS inverter failed")

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(This is an older article that I hadn't published back then because it might not be fully accurate, i.e. the steps may not be applicable...
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Understanding bugs in Xojo, or not getting them fixed

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A former employee of Xojo Inc. once met with an Apple Developer Support (DTS) engineer, looking over some code. The Apple engineer saw a no...
22 April 2019

Performance considerations when reading directories on macOS

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(Latest update: 17 Feb 2025 (2), see end of text) I'm developing (and selling) a fairly popular file search program for the Mac called...
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