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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.

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.

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.