Tags » swift

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  Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

  We can use the createWebArchiveData method on WKWebView to write a Swift script that creates Safari webarchive files.

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  Writing a Mac app to review my photos

  Dipping my toes into SwiftUI to make a tool for reviewing my photos with just the keyboard.

• TIL: How to install exiftool in GitHub Actions

• TIL: How to get a macOS file/folder icon in Swift

  Use NSWorkspace.shared.icon to get the icon as an NSImage, then you can save it to disk or do something else with it.

• TIL: How to check the quality of a network connection

  Using an NWPathMonitor and inspecting the value of NWPath.status, NWPath.isExpensive and NWPath.isConstrained can tell you what sort of connection you’re running on.

• TIL: Writing a file in Swift, but only if it doesn’t already exist

  Adding .withoutOverwriting to your write() call will prevent you from overwriting a file that already exists.

• Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library

  A quick script to help move the biggest items out of my main Photos Library.

• Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app

  AppleScript only allows us to add photos to an album; dipping into Swift and PhotoKit lets us both add and remove photos.

• TIL: How to profile Swift code

• A script to get Live Text from images

  Using Apple’s built-in tools to get OCR text from an image, but without going through a GUI.

• Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences

  Updating the accent colour everywhere, with immediate effect, using a script written in Swift.