Author Archives: Angus Hardie

Lego Starwars – Skywalker Saga

A new lego star wars game (new to me anyway, my copy just finished downloading!) I like what I see so far, the story is exciting, I love the introduction video, it has that “star wars is epic” feel about … Continue reading

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Poor Netflix!

Netflix has been suffering from Disney taking all their content and refusing to play any more. Still more Korean dramas on Netflix than Disney though…

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SQLEditor 4.0

After a bit of a gap, SQLEditor 4 is now pretty much at the point of a public release. Thanks to everyone who has been trying beta versions and the most helpful bug reports!

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Dark mode canvas in SQLEditor

Finished, see the blog post: 🙂

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SQLEditor Dark Mode Canvas

Recently I’ve been working on providing SQLEditor with a dark mode canvas and here is the current development version (running in dark mode): This work should hopefully appear in the next beta release. And of course, with SQLEditor you can … Continue reading

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Disney Artists on Instagram

Absolutely awesome art + useful lessons for people trying to improve: https://www.instagram.com/grizandnorm/ This is the link I was trying to find for L today but couldn’t.. Relieved that I found it 😌

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apple java-dev list deleted

The old Apple Java-dev mailing list and all its archives appear to have been deleted. The mailman system is reporting “No such list java-dev“

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Notarization …

Apple is really pushing the whole notarization thing right now. It does seem a bit like the apocryphal story of boiling the frog, adding small additional restrictions on software freedom each year until the whole platform is under absolute control. … Continue reading

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Hyper-threading and cleverness

Another day, another attack on processor architectures. I remember during the computer architecture classes at university marvelling at how clever the processor architectures were. Branch prediction, the challenges of process management and context switching. How everything could be managed so … Continue reading

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[NSColor highlightColor] differs in dark mode

I noticed a point today while working on dark mode for Mojave 10.14. The value of -(NSColor*)highlightColor differs depending on whether you’re in light mode or dark mode. This particularly affects -(NSColor *)highlightWithLevel:(CGFloat)val; By calling: [[NSColor highlightColor] colorUsingColorSpace:[NSColorSpace genericRGBColorSpace]]; I … Continue reading

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End of 32 bit on Mac will kill off old games

The era of 32 bit Mac applications is probably coming to an end. Apple seems to be moving towards a 64 bit future. 64 bit conversion isn’t very difficult for most ordinary apps, although there will undoubtably be developers who … Continue reading

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Github desktop and the tree view

Github desktop has been a helpful companion to my development work for some time now. It’s lightweight, easy to use and integrates nicely with github.com However there is one neat feature that github desktop v1 had that the newer v2 … Continue reading

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Blockchain isn’t the answer?

It is important to remember that there are problems for which blockchains are not the correct answer.

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Tags and Taxonomies

When tagging documents with keywords, sometimes too many keywords is as bad as too few. If you have too few, the document might not be found. If you have too many, the document will be found every time; even if … Continue reading

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Another unbelievable truck advert

Following from the entirely unbelievable but true Epic Split truck advert with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scania has offered a new ad, building a working clock using trucks. I love all of these ads, I really do. But I’m not in … Continue reading

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Birkhill Fireclay Museum Closed

Sadly it seems that the Birkhill fireclay mine has been permanently closed as a visitor attraction. I was lucky enough to go round the mine tour a few years ago when it was still open and it was a fascinating visit. The mine … Continue reading

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SQLEditor javascript plugins

There is some new sample code for writing javascript plugins on our shiny new organisation github page: https://github.com/malcolmhardie-software/SQLitePluginJavascript

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SQLEditor 3.0 release

SQLEditor 3.0 is ready! I’ve feel like I’ve been working on this for ages, so I’m really happy that it’s now ready. The most visible change is the new user interface, which has been merged into a single window. Single … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi Zero

The new Raspberry Pi Zero looks amazing! Base price is just £4! Sure you have to add stuff like an SD card, a screen and a keyboard. But these can be shared, or borrowed or obtained second hand from somewhere … Continue reading

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SVG Explanations

Working on SQLEditor SVG improvements (arriving soon in 3.0), and found this excellent series of articles by Sara Soueidnn on several of the details. So SQLEditor in future will be using the same object icons in SVG as are drawn in the … Continue reading

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