I hate not having a job. I just want to make cool apps. If you need an #iOS or #macOS developer, I've been doing this since 2008. I worked at Apple on the Reminders app, and I've got lots of #SwiftUI and #Swift experience. I'm really quite the catch.

I just wrote a huge entry about the Fediverse here. It is a guide with all sorts of tips and explanations, and links to many useful pages. Please feel free to share it with anyone who may be interested in joining. Note, though, that I am not the type to care if you're on a mainstream platform or not. Thi sis just meant as a guide for those who may need it, not as a way of bashing those who use non-Fediverse platforms. As a side note, Dreamwidth is one of my favourite sites on the Internet, precisely because of its wonderful accessibility.

dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/248…

If you would rather read it on Reddit, here is the same post there.

reddit.com/r/BlindAndFine/comm…

#accessibility #Akkoma #Android #blind #Dreamwidth #Fediverse #Friendica #guide #IOS #MacOS #Mastodon #Reddit #technology #tips #TWBlue #TweeseCake #Windows

Liebe Folglinge,

ich suche leider noch immer nach einem neuen Job als #iOS und/oder #macOS Entwickler. Ich spreche #ObjectiveC, #Swift (auch Server-Side) und #SwiftUI und nutze die ganzen Tools drumherum (#Xcode, #Git, #GitHub, #GitHubActions, #ShellScripting etc.). Ich bringe 30 Jahre Berufserfahrung als Software-Entwickler mit, davon knapp 20 im #Apple Ökosystem.

Am Idealsten waere eine #Festanstellung zu 100% remote. Sollte es im Raum #Bregenz oder #Dornbirn etwas geben, dann auch gerne vor Ort.

Ich danke euch fuers Teilen. 🙏🏻

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phranck/
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Frank_Gregor063742/

#FediHire #JobSuche #RemoteJob #Arbeit

I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: https://github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

#gcc #compiler #compilers #c #unix #linux #macos #macosx #osx #apple #powerpc #retro #retrocomputing #bsd #mac #macintosh

We're gonna miss breaking out of the box on macOS. All app icons will be the same squircle, and any app without updated resources gets put in a grey penalty box.

Contact us if you need help updating your app!

https://iconfactory.com/contact/

#WWDC #dev #macOS

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A series of app icons on macOS Tahoe some with irregular shapes are now contained within a grey squircle.

MacOS 26 is the final Intel version, sucks to be a 2023 Intel Mac Pro owner

macOS Tahoe is the final software update that Intel-based Macs will get, as Apple works to phase them out following its transition to Apple silicon.

During its Platforms State of the Union event, Apple said that Intel Macs won't get macOS 27, coming next year, though there could still b

https://www.osnews.com/story/142538/macos-26-is-the-final-intel-version-sucks-to-be-a-2023-intel-mac-pro-owner/

#macOS

obviously they are talking about desktop :P #Linux #macOS #Windows

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A four-panel meme showing operating system wars. Panel 1: Red macOS figure claims "macOS IS BETTER." Panel 2: Blue Windows figure counters "Windows is MUCH BETTER than macOS." Panel 3: Both look down at a small, sad yellow Linux figure. Panel 4: macOS and Windows figures tells the now happy Linux figure, saying "Linux is good too."

New #blog post!

Let's explore virtualizing the different BSDs on Apple Silicon.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Unix #Linux #virtualization #apple #macOS #arm #aarch64 #arm64

Multiplexing will boost your SSH connectivity or speed by reusing existing TCP connections to a remote host. Here are commands that you can use to control multiplexing when using OpenSSH server or client on your Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or Unix-like systems. Not sure what SSH multiplexing is? Learn how to set it up and use it to speed up your SSH sessions with our handy guide: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ssh-multiplexing-control-command-to-check-forward-list-cancel-stop-connections/

#linux #unix #freebsd #opensource #openssh #macos

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List of ssh command to control an active connection multiplexing process on Linux or Unix such as: Valid commands are: “check” (check that the master process is running), “forward” (request forwardings without command execution), “cancel” (cancel forwardings), “exit” (request the master to exit), and “stop” (request the master to stop accepting further multiplexing requests).

Alle Wochen wieder...

Ich suche (noch immer) einen neuen Job in Festanstellung als #macOS und/oder #iOS Entwickler. Ich kann #Swift, #SwiftUI, #ObjC und den ganzen Klimbim drumherum, hab ca. 30 Jahre Berufserfahrung und arbeite am Liebsten zu 100% #remote von meinem #HomeOffice. Sollte es in oder um #Bregenz (#Österreich) sein, dann auch gerne teilweise onsite.

Wer also jemanden kennt, der jemanden kennt... You get it. 😃

Ich bedanke mich fuers regel Teilen. 🙏🏻

#FediHire #Jobs #JobSuche #RemoteWork

@wolf480pl @cas it's easy...

The reasons one can despise something and the reason one appreciates it can be different.

I.e. I can appreciate #macOS for it's #accessibility right from the #installer but I can #despise it for #Apple not selling it as a commercial #Unix distro for a #subscription

Same with #bash: I can appreciate it for being better than #sh (unix-#shell) , #tcsh or #csh but I despise it for not having modernized like #fish.

• And with fish I appreciate it but I despise it's not the default #shell for any #Linux distro I can use in #production.

It's called having "mixed feelings" or rather #NuancedOpinion.

• Kinda like how every #skiddie and #TechIlliterate can use #Windows but that Windows is shit and the only reason they can is because they got groomed into being #consoomers that accept #enshittification as a fact of life.

would you give LLM (AI) to run commands on your macOS, Linux, FreeBSD or Unix machine? Fuck no. I survived this long without this crap and I will be fine. Do not want. Go away.

#ai #unix #linux #macos #freebsd

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AI-Powered Terminal Assistant Screenshot that can run Linux and Unix commands for you.

If you ever accidentally end up inside vi or vim or neovim by reading some tutorials online, you can quit it by pressing Escape, colon ( : ), q (q), bang (!) and pressing return. It is simple as that. Modern version of VIM even tells you that on welcome screen. No need to panic.

#UNIX #linux #macos #freebsd #vim

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vim welcome screenshot showing version number and info about how to exit and get help about vim.

incomplete list of macOS defaults commands with demos

https://macos-defaults.com

#macOS

Strong suspicion I could swap out #macOS for #Linux, do better with #Minecraft and most everything else, and not do much worse at macOS-specific stuff like #GarageBand and Messages under #OSXKVM (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM).

Anyone done this, or something similar?

@siracusa At the very least, if you can *only* have popup buttons that “hug" the title of the selected item, at least lower the compression resistance on the label so it truncates. This is NOT how you build UI. Look how the label will go into its own row if it doesn't fit vertically.

#SwiftUI #macOS #SystemSettings

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #appdevelopment #macOS #SwiftUI

Do any operating systems other than #Linux (#Windows, #macOS, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, etc) have an API for non-blocking file IO?

I know Linux has that in #io_uring, which can do almost any IO operation (even fsync) in the background and tell you when it's done, but is that the only OS with such a feature?

#programming #async

A new #blog post appears!

I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html

#macos #macosx #tiger #powerpc #power #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #solaris #illumos #gcc #llvm #clang #compiler #compilers #assembler #linker #toolchain #freesoftware #opensource #gnu

I should add: These are all originals with packaging and manuals. #MacOS #vintage #MacOS9 #MacOSX

@david_chisnall

"… would love to switch to another platform but whenever I try KDE or GNOME my experience is always ‘not quite as bad as Windows’, …"

For more than two decades, I was a huge fan of Apple's OS. Yosemite was the killer, I switched to PC-BSD.

Now, preparing to switch from FreeBSD to Linux:

– whilst I do miss the excellent aspects of Mac OS X, the worst aspects are so bad that I'll never switch back

– I can barely tolerate Microsoft's desktop environment, and that's not because I'm anti-Microsoft

– KDE Plasma ticks more boxes than any other DE.

YMMV :-)

#Apple #FreeBSD #Linux #Microsoft #macOS #MacOSX #KDE #Plasma #Windows

rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250408062403 #openbsd #openrsync #rsync #macos #apple #freesoftware #libresoftware

that is how do it. what about you? sudo -i? sudo -s? su -? gksudo? runuser? pkexec? See https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/command-line-hacks/linux-run-command-as-different-user/ for more on those commands.

#linux #unix #macos #freebsd

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Linux meme: Winnie the Pooh prefers sudo -i over repeatedly using sudo.

Lesson 1 in #UIUX... your buttons should not be moving targets. Especially if they're toggles.

Look at how if I toggle on "Transactions" and then toggle it off, I am no longer in the bounds of that button. TF?!

I have a feeling this was designed for touch and touch only. It wouldn’t matter there because you lift your finger after tapping…

#macOS

Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

#opensource #macos #windows #linux