Noah Martin is organizing a WWDC keynote viewing event at Shy Bird in South Boston.

Guilty on all counts. ⚖️

Interesting Bug Pertaining to NSTableView and Context Menus

I am seeing what I believe to be an interesting bug on macOS 14.5 (23F79). If you have an NSTableView with a context menu, opening that context menu via right click while the app is in the background and then clicking elsewhere in the table view to dismiss the context menu brings the window to the …

I won a copy of @patrickrhone’s book For You at Micro Camp (@camp). Thank you to Patrick and to the Micro.blog team!

Congratulations to Joe Fabisevich on the launch of Plinky. Plinky is a wonderful app for saving, organizing, and sharing links.

NSHappyHour will meet at The Lobster Shanty in Salem MA at 6:30 PM Wednesday. New folks are always welcome. Thanks to Geoff Bradford for organizing it.

This does not look ideal. I reported it to the electric company.

NSHappyHour meets tonight at Bit Bar in Salem MA at 6:30 PM. New folks are always welcome. Thanks to @whitedonkey@mastodon.social for organizing.

I failed at Wordle two days in a row. Not April Fools, unfortunately. 🤦‍♂️

Saving to Safari Reading List

Unread lets a user save articles and links directly to Safari Reading List, without going through the share sheet. This is a popular feature, but there are unfortunate limitations on both iOS and macOS. iOS On iOS, SSReadingList lets an app save a webpage URL to Safari Reading List. This initially …

Sharing via Email on macOS

On iOS Unread has a Mail Content article action. This lets customers quickly compose an email with the HTML content of an article. It uses MFMailComposeViewController. MFMailComposeViewController has the unfortunate limitation of only working with Apple Mail, but it is otherwise great. The Mail …

The Supreme Court must really be backlogged if they cannot hear the presidential immunity case until the end of April. President Biden should appoint a few additional Supreme Court justices to give them the capacity they need.

Voting FTW.

At this evening’s CocoaHeads Boston meeting on Zoom, Ed Arenberg will discuss his experiences developing on the Vision Pro and show his game “Connect3D - Spatial” running on-device. New folks and folks from outside the Boston area are always welcome.

NSHappyHour meets at Bit Bar in Salem MA tonight at 6:30. New participants are always welcome. Thanks to @whitedonkey@mastodon.social for organizing.

I am excited to see that Castro is in good hands again.

Congratulations to @danielpunkass on the release his crossword-solving app Black Ink for iOS..

A 30-day streak.

NSHappyHour is at the Lobster Shanty in Salem, MA at 6:30 PM tonight. New folks are always welcome. Thanks to @whitedonkey@mastodon.social for organizing.

I made an early beta version of Unread for macOS available. Details at: www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2024/01/e… Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography, great handling of articles from summary-only feeds, and a variety of color themes.

I like @incanus@mastodon.social’s idea of Repurposing Hugo as a wiki. I have a bunch of loose markdown files in a version-controlled folder that I consider my “company wiki”. Making it navigable with a web browser and letting documents link to each other would be a significant improvement.

CocoaHeads Boston will meet Thursday evening via Zoom at 7:00 PM Boston time. New participants and participants from outside the Boston area are always welcome.

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of MacStories Selects awards.

NSHappyHour meets at the Lobster Shanty in Salem, MA, at 6:30 tonight. New participants are always welcome. Thanks to @whitedonkey@mastodon.social for organizing.

A huge new feature for MarsEdit: Mastodon support. Congratulations to @danielpunkass. MarsEdit 5.1: Mastodon Support is Here!