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• I can attach a musical keyboard to my iPad

  27 November 2015

  After seeing this video by AWAN, purchasing a Keith McMillen QuNexus seemed like the perfect idea.

  Even more so after I noticed that you can hook it up to your iPad, as Khantipol demonstrates in his video.

  😍

  I had to send it back though, after I discovered one of the pads on the bottom of the keyboard is missing. 🙈

  

  Hoping the new one gets here before the weekend. And isn’t missing any pieces.

• Layers is another minimal CSS framework

  27 November 2015

  I’ll be using Layers to create the website for Hedge.

  Lightweight. Unobtrusive. Style-agnostic. Build your look on the web, not Twitter’s – and build it fluid.

  Layers CSS is a CSS framework aimed for practical use cases. It comes with a small footprint and zero bullshit.

  Sounds good.

  • Normalizations & sensible defaults
  • Fluid grid + progressively enhanced columns
  • Preserves native form styles by default
  • No px definitions
  • No colors, no borders, no rounded corners
  • No dependencies

  👍

• Disable layer backing to work with NSVisualEffectViews in IB

  20 November 2015

  Found yourself unable to move around (or even freakin’ select) elements on a layer backed NSVisualEffectView?

  Just toggle the Core Animation Layer checkbox in Interface Builder and voilà, all fixed. Oh and everything turns red obviously, because NSVisualEffectViews need layer backing.. 👍

  

• You can bulk-edit which app opens a file on OS X

  1 November 2015

  Just fire up the Terminal and issue the following command:

  $ open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist
  

  You might need to reboot your Mac afterwards.

  I needed this after deciding I no longer needed Keka to open every compressed file format known to man and got tired of seeing its file type icon on every .zip on my Mac.

  

• Tinted NSVisualEffectView

  28 October 2015

  I’m trying to change the tint of the NSVisualEffectView. This is what I’ve come up with. You can clone the project over at GitHub. Send me a pull request if you know a better way.

  

  Tinting

  1. Add a new NSVisualEffectView to your main window.
  2. Enable layer backing.
  3. Loop through the layers and change the backgroundColor of the layer called ‘ClearCopyLayer’.

  No science behind this method.

  import Cocoa
  
  @NSApplicationMain
  class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
  
    @IBOutlet weak var window: NSWindow!
    @IBOutlet weak var vibrancyView: NSVisualEffectView!
  
    var tintColor: NSColor?
  
    func applicationDidFinishLaunching(aNotification: NSNotification) {
      // Insert code here to initialize your application
  
      self.vibrancyView.material = .Dark
    }
  
    func applicationWillTerminate(aNotification: NSNotification) {
      // Insert code here to tear down your application
    }
  
    func applyTint() {
  
      if let color = self.tintColor {
        print("Applying tint: \(self.tintColor)")
        // Tint the visual effect view
        for sublayer: CALayer in self.vibrancyView.layer!.sublayers! {
          if sublayer.name == "ClearCopyLayer" {
            sublayer.backgroundColor = color.CGColor
            break
          }
        }
      }
    }
  
    @IBAction func tintDark(sender: NSButton) {
      self.vibrancyView.material = .Dark
      applyTint()
    }
    @IBAction func tintLight(sender: NSButton) {
      self.vibrancyView.material = .Light
      applyTint()
    }
  
    @IBAction func tintRed(sender: NSButton) {
      self.tintColor = NSColor(red: 1.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, alpha: 0.1)
      applyTint()
    }
    @IBAction func tintBlue(sender: NSButton) {
      self.tintColor = NSColor(red: 0.0, green: 0.0, blue: 1.0, alpha: 0.1)
      applyTint()
    }
  
  }
  

  Known Issues

  Changing the materialfrom light to dark or vice versa removes the custom backgroundColor. Even if it’s applied after changing the material.

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