I recently replaced a horrible, dodgy Zoom H4n with a Tascam Portacapture X8, for recording (primarily) theatre and music performances. One of the appeals was 32-bit floating-point recording which was literally promised to eliminate concerns about input levelling, clipping, and noise: The reality is, with 32-bit float recording you can turn on your recorder, hit… Read more
Apple does provide these instructions, although they were annoyingly hard to find (in no small part because the page title is only incidentally related to the task). In short: My projects are already covered by Time Machine and other backup mechanisms, and I tried to tolerate Final Cut Pros built-in backup system, but the damn… Read more
Bad horse, bad horse,
He rides across the nation,
The thoroughbred of sin… Read more
For nearly a month now, Backblaze has been fixated on a particular file of mine, that happens to be over 1 TB in size. Backblaze seemingly uploads it completely, but then on the next backup it uploads it again, even though it has not changed (in eight years!). Ad infinitum. Using their Explainfile tool to… Read more
This post is mostly to herald a pretty good Apple bug report response, which as we know is a too-rare event. But it might also help others with this confusing SwiftUI API. What’s the difference between presentedWindowStyle(_:) and windowStyle(_:)? Well, one does something, the other doesn’t, basically. I tried using the former, and observed that… Read more
This is a public reposting of FB14893699, in case it’s helpful to anyone else or especially in case someone else has seen this too and knows how to work around it. If any view in the [active] window contains a Toggle – even one that’s disabled or hidden – then Continuity Camera (re. ImportFromDevicesCommands and… Read more
This is a public reposting of FB14885505, in case it’s helpful to anyone else or especially in case someone else has seen this too and knows how to work around it. NSPasteboard mutates itself simultaneously from the main thread and the global concurrent Dispatch pool, w.r.t. to its internal type cache. This is surprisingly trivial… Read more