“Developer” wasn’t intended for your code but rather as a Developer specific Applications folder.
IDEs and debug tools and what have you. Xcode in earlier versions of Mac OS X installed to Developer
Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
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Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
#72Wait until they find out you can simply paste a new icon on any folder! Some great old skool ones at https://freeware.iconfactory.com/icons Just look at those .. so good .. https://i.imgur.com/0fMNFFX.png
Any file too. I use a ton of custom icons to visually distinguish important files.
Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
#73This reminds me of the "magical" CLSID folder names you can use in Windows to embed special folders in your filesystem. This can be quite useful as some of the hidden functionality includes an overview of many conntrol panel settings usually hidden deep within the directory structure. Plus, applications can register their own special panes if they wish, allowing you to use Windows Explorer as a front-end for your app…
You can just drag or paste a nice looking transparent PNG onto the icon in the Inspector.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to use Disco, the website is still alive: https://discoapp.com When a CD was burning, smoke would emanate from the app, and if you blew on your microphone the smoke would disperse.
I guess a mac only application for disk burning becomes a bit pointless when there’s no macs with disc drives any more.
I have an external BDXL burner sitting on top of my Mac Studio. It’s a real shame they couldn’t find space internally for such a thing.
Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
#75Wait until they find out you can simply paste a new icon on any folder! Some great old skool ones at https://freeware.iconfactory.com/icons Just look at those .. so good .. https://i.imgur.com/0fMNFFX.png
For a period I was replacing my vscode icon with a dark one, but every app update (which is fairly frequent) would clobber it.
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> You can also press Shift + Command + G Ok, after 10 years of Mac OS, I'm only learning this right now?? And I'm stupid because it's right there in the "Go" menu… I used to just launch a terminal and use the "open" command… Many thanks for this.
So many applications and such have shortcuts that are quite useful but hidden. It can be worth a few minutes crawling through the menus and accessibility settings. The one I like is you can universally change the short cut for paste so that “paste without formatting” is the default CMD-V
That's a very good idea. But do you just create one for "All Applications" called "Paste without formatting"?
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there’s no macs with disc drives any more The drives still exist. They're just optional now. Like bucket seats. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD564LL/A/apple-usb-super... Best optical drive I own. When nothing else will read a crusty disc, the SuperDrive always does.
Fun fact. That's the oldest product they still sell as it was introduced with the original MacBook Air in 2008. They've done literally nothing to it and it sill comes with a USB A cable despite most of their computers not having one at all. It also is pretty bad value these days when a Blu-ray writer costs about the same.
It depends on what you're using it for. I have a couple of Blu-Ray drives, and they're much more finicky than the SuperDrive.
When a disc won't read or write in my Pioneer drive, I try it in my no-name Blu-ray drive, and when that fails, I try it in the SuperDrive, and it always works.
I consider something that works reliably 99% of the time to be a better value than something that works 80% of the time.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
there’s no macs with disc drives any more The drives still exist. They're just optional now. Like bucket seats. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD564LL/A/apple-usb-super... Best optical drive I own. When nothing else will read a crusty disc, the SuperDrive always does.
Fun fact. That's the oldest product they still sell as it was introduced with the original MacBook Air in 2008. They've done literally nothing to it and it sill comes with a USB A cable despite most of their computers not having one at all. It also is pretty bad value these days when a Blu-ray writer costs about the same.
I'd wager they are just selling whatever inventory they have yet, and it'll never get a USB-C refresh.
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It may be hard to believe now, but there was a time when iTunes was a great piece of software. It used to have two jobs - play your music and manage your music - and it had a good UI for both tasks. iTunes had a "brushed metal" interface - the Apple HIG said brushed metal was for apps that represent "devices", as opposed to standard "Aqua" (or "Platinum" if you go back far enough) for apps which represent "documents"…
Please stop describing something I remember experiencing like yesterday the same way they talk about ox ploughs at a pioneer village museum.
My first program was written in FORTRAN on punch cards, back in those days we tied an onion to our belt—no, we didn’t do that, and I was just a kid, so Truthfully what I observed was that in those days mainframes had a “machine room” where the cabinets were cooled with air conditioning popes that ran under the raised floor.
The engineers had those suction cup handles glaziers use to carry panes of glass, they were used to lift floor tiles up to access the cabling and AC running under the floor. Because of the AC, the space under the floor was cold. And that’s where they stored the beer, or a can of root beer for the kid who was hanging around writing simple programs.
I remember that like the day-before-yesterday, but to everyone else it’s as like telling an anecdote about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage commenting on your pull request against the Difference Engine.
Re: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
#80“Developer” wasn’t intended for your code but rather as a Developer specific Applications folder. IDEs and debug tools and what have you. Xcode in earlier versions of Mac OS X installed to Developer
Is there anything that still automatically installs itself there?
If it's not used for that anymore, might as well use it for code.