Swift 6 is great, but the strict concurrency checking can make interactions with older Apple APIs be... not fun.
Furthermore, older Apple APIs can be less aware of async Swift features, such as actors. I recently ran into both of these while adding a Finder "action extension" to an …
All of my smart home stuff is running in Home Assistant, and I'm using their OS on a Mini PC.
One of the things I'm running on that OS is the Scrypted Add-On to bridge my generic RTSP cameras into HomeKit, and to use Scrypted's NVR.
By default, Scrypted will …
I run most of my home services in Docker, and I decided it was time to migrate Tailscale from the host into Docker too.
This turned out to be an interesting journey, but I figured I'd talk about it here for anyone else hitting the same issues.
Here is my …
Hammerspoon now has per-commit development builds generated automatically by a GitHub Actions workflow.
This was a surprisingly slow and painful process to set up, so here are some things I learned along the way.
There are tons of third party GitHub Actions available in …
(If you don't want to read this whole thing, skip to the end of the post for a tl;dr version)
I was lucky enough to get a Labists X1 3D printer for Christmas a few weeks ago, and it's the first 3D printer I've had or really even interacted …
Previously I wrote about how I'd tried to create an app, but ultimately failed because I wasn't getting the results I wanted out of the macOS CoreAudio APIs.
Thanks to some excellent input from David Lublin I refactored the code to be able to switch easily between different backend audio …
I recently had the need to migrate someone in my family off an old ISP email account, onto a more modern email account, without simply shutting down the old account. The old address has been given out to people/companies for at least a decade, so it's simply not practical …
I've just published https://github.com/cmsj/HotMic/ which contains a very good amount of a macOS app I had hoped to complete and sell for a couple of bucks on the Mac App Store.
However, I failed to get it working, primarily because I don't know enough of CoreAudio …
I'm sure many of us receive regular emails from the same source - by which I mean things like a daily status email from a backup system, or a weekly newsletter from a blogger/journalist we like, etc.
These are a great way of getting notified or kept up to date …
As part of our general effort to try and raise the quality of Hammerspoon, I've been working with @latenitefilms to track down some memory leaks, which can be very easy if you use the Leaks profile in Xcode's "Instruments" tool. I tried this various ways, but I kept running into …