This is a post that serves mostly to try and seed Google with an answer to a question I had, that I couldn't find an existing answer to.
I was working on some macOS Swift code that needed to care about UNIX device nodes (ie block/character devices), which are …
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 Swift's async features, which becomes particularly relevant if you have adopted actor objects, since access to those is always async.. I recently …
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 …