Todd Thomas :ivory_logo:

Maker of Mac apps. Currently working on Pastebot and Ivory for Mac (see https://tapbots.com). In my downtime I play squash, mountain bike, hike and play with my black lab.

Location: Calgary, AB 🇨🇦
Twitter: Ha not anymore
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/todd.tapbots.com

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2026-08-19 19:31:48 UTC

The compressor in my maybe 6 year old LG fridge died. The crappy fridge in our basement still chugs along and who knows how old it is. It came with the house 13 years ago and already looked like it had lived a long life.

2026-07-24 18:09:33 UTC

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Should likely just make that undoable so if you accidentally delete something a command-z will bring it back. I'm surprised it isn't already undoable.

2026-07-24 16:34:59 UTC

RE: https://tapbots.social/@tapbots/116971095385073221
Much rewrite and modernize. New fancy web site and easter egg bonus.
#note17y2…vm6t

2026-05-13 20:39:53 UTC

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the window is opening to take up the full screen without being full screen? full screen height? macOS 26.x? I have found if you drag a window close to the edges of the screen such that the window server gives you suggested window snapping to a quarter or half of the screen then on occasion the window will try and go back to that place/size even if you've resized it.

2026-05-02 21:03:38 UTC

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will have to check the code and see @npub1lwt…p0hg

2026-04-23 17:26:47 UTC

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exactly my thoughts
@npub1ywu…ft2d

2026-02-05 17:01:38 UTC

I can only imagine the onslaught of bugs Apple is going to get for Xcode 26.3 and the Agent stuff. “I asked for an app that uses WeatherKit but still had to search a bunch of stuff to get it to work after the agent wrote the code.”*
*You still have to go to Apple's dev site and add the app id and give it WeatherKit permissions and then add the capability in ‘Signing & Capabilities’ before it'll work.

2026-01-22 16:24:53 UTC

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CALCBOT?!?

2025-11-06 02:42:01 UTC

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scrollerInsets and contentInsets on NsScrollView?

2025-10-03 15:55:59 UTC

Saw this in the Canadian App Store this morn. On the Discover page. cc @npub18lj…84al
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/311/047/917/762/606/original/56ef45ba2293d20d.png

2025-08-18 11:07:15 UTC

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we drove through there yesterday..

2025-07-22 17:31:54 UTC

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yeah I don't use the mastodon gifs very often but I know there are many that love them here (here being mastodon). :emoji_wink:

2025-07-17 17:22:06 UTC

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your system language is German? Also what are you doing to make the window lose focus? Command-tab and then click to make compose window come forward again?
@npub1lyn…ve6v

2025-07-16 16:36:47 UTC

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how do you prefer feedback? Here? Email? Bought the Mac version the other day and wanted to send some feedback.

2025-05-01 19:43:52 UTC

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just installed recently so haven't hit 1,2 or 3 yet. How do I hit 4??

2025-05-01 17:20:09 UTC

Solar energy graphs. 1. sunny all day, 2. overcast all day, 3. sunny then cloudy in afternoon, 4. giant clouds cutting off sun all day, patches of direct sunlight.
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/433/719/976/060/386/original/e72fba8f4698fb6e.jpeg
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/433/720/222/988/294/original/6a5d04406b6cc9a6.jpeg
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2025-03-21 20:42:49 UTC

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I wrote a little apple watch app to get me to stand up more during the day. It did work to motivate me to stand more but then Xcode could no longer find my watch and the build has expired. Could try and put it on TestFlight (haven't ever tried that with a pure watch app with no iOS companion app though)

2025-03-07 17:47:43 UTC

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no still on my list to look through the code and see what could be going on. If you open Terminal app and type ‘defaults read com.tapbots.Ivory | grep MainLastPosition’ and then resize your main window in Ivory and then run that same command in Terminal again does the 3rd number change accordingly (it will be the width of the sidebar + one of the columns)?

2025-03-05 18:03:08 UTC

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I just tried what you demonstrated in your screencast. Resize main window, click close button, click Ivory app in the dock to bring back main window. Worked as expected (on 15.3.1). What version of macOS are you using?
@npub1lyn…ve6v

2025-03-01 02:12:14 UTC

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no Paul won’t give me an invite for some reason.

2025-02-20 06:41:23 UTC

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two words.. pi-hole. I see no ads on macrumors.

2025-02-13 22:56:26 UTC

Yay?
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/999/045/137/895/830/original/185a630b9ad0f45b.png

2025-02-05 18:24:40 UTC

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the only solution is to just leave the app running all the time ;-)

2025-02-05 01:33:19 UTC

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Canada units

2025-02-04 23:01:01 UTC

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Celcius

2025-02-04 21:50:35 UTC

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Nice. I should come visit Tapbots HQ. The temps here are *shudder*… just got back from walking the dog because ball is life and cold cannot stop us (mostly her) from playing.
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/947/825/397/088/551/original/2ce382be588fd499.png

2025-01-31 17:13:33 UTC

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You can no longer send html formatted attributed strings to the mail sharing service? Pretty sure we used to do that.

2024-12-19 22:11:07 UTC

iOS and Mac could sure deal much better with low battery connected devices than it currently does. Sometimes I get a 'low battery' warning for trackpad but more often it just dies and have to connect to start charging. Same with iPad and the pencil. I've even been writing and it just dies. No warning like pencil at 10% or 5% maybe consider charging it. Yeah I'll file a FB.

2024-12-02 21:23:15 UTC

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disappointing that it doesn't support the M4 chip.
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/585/330/099/418/723/original/fab67472281b2cd2.png

2024-11-29 05:59:37 UTC

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since when has Canada Post had public funding? It became a crown corporation in 1981 and funds itself with its own revenue.

2024-11-27 20:02:16 UTC

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what version of macOS? Could you cause the app to freeze and sample it using activity monitor? Send it to me (Todd @ Tapbots) or Help -> Contact Us from main menu.

2024-11-20 17:18:04 UTC

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not officially supported yet but I think one of the planned enhancements for the next major mastodon version.

2024-11-15 18:22:40 UTC

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what we really should do is make a page on tapbots.com that lists the various key commands since iPad also has a bunch of key shortcuts. Tab/Shift Tab - move between columns, esc can be used to close most sheets. command-enter to save/post. Left arrow triggers the back button, home/end and page up/down. The rest are in the main menu.

2024-10-31 02:45:12 UTC

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oh landscape notebooks have sooo much space on the page now.

2024-10-31 01:34:55 UTC

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nice! I wasn’t the only one asking? I don’t use my iPad in portrait at all.

2024-10-30 20:09:50 UTC

Does Apple use the same debugger we use?!? Hit breakpoint, po a couple objects, wait 40 seconds for the answer. Repeat. It is way faster to add some print statements, recompile and run the app these days (Xcode 16.1)

2024-10-30 18:05:49 UTC

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yeah nothing odd about that setup. I have something similar here. You could do Help -> Contact Us from the main menu and send in your log files. Perhaps there's some information in there though can't think of why it wouldn't autorefresh.

2024-10-01 20:21:20 UTC

Wonder if anyone is working on Spotlight anymore. Searching for apps it usually finds the ones on my second partition (running Sequoia) instead of the partition I'm on. I did a search today for some invoices and it returned ones from 2014 and 2018 and didn't even include any of the many from 2024. I guess search just isn't that important.

2024-09-14 02:43:20 UTC

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damn! That is.. wow.

2024-09-14 02:04:29 UTC

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I thought the cactus container was jar jar 🤣

2024-09-14 00:12:18 UTC

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Condensed sidebar? I mean if you just move the whole sidebar off the side of your screen that works, right? (well if it is on the left side) ;-)
I can always run the idea by Mark to be able to hide the sidebar (if that's what you are asking).

2024-09-13 23:27:41 UTC

For those that like really, really like compact windows.. #IvoryForMac
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/132/834/540/590/764/original/e1d708446a39c0e6.png

2024-07-09 14:54:11 UTC

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I’m mostly annoyed by how loud the mornings are when you need to open all the windows to cool the house down.

2024-07-04 20:40:20 UTC

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yeah the completion method.. oh well if you worked on that code in UIKit you know much better than I. I did try and disassemble some of the glue controller code when I was working on the share extensions in Ivory (also trying to change the modal presentation somehow) but was unsuccessful.

2024-07-04 20:25:42 UTC

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try calling that method earlier? loadView, viewWillAppear:? I don't think the extensionContext is available when you are creating your share view controller in init(xxx).

2024-07-04 02:38:05 UTC

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tempting

2024-07-02 02:22:51 UTC

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this is UIKit and AppKit code. I’ll dig up some screenshots but three or so years ago the code became almost useless after disassembly.

2024-07-02 02:17:35 UTC

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what would you call all the sub_xxxxxxx() calls all over the place when disassembling apples frameworks? Sure seems like they are trying to make it really hard to see the code.

2024-07-02 01:37:24 UTC

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yeah but does it decompile the Apple frameworks following whatever annoying measures they’ve taken to obfuscate their code?

2024-07-02 01:29:29 UTC

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amazing!

2024-06-27 05:07:35 UTC

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yeah happens with the beta version of Mac also.

2024-06-20 16:35:58 UTC

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I think you need to do 'sqlite3 name_of_database_file’. And then .tables should display the tables in that file. Of course I have no core data projects sitting around but pretty sure the file should end with .sqlite file extension.

2024-06-20 00:18:01 UTC

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can you grab the group container folder from your device? There should be a sqllite file in there for the database (since based on core data). All the table names are ZZZZEntityName or something similar. In terminal if you can get to the database in the file system you can do ‘sqlite3 database name’ then .tables to list tables then ‘select * from ZzzzYourTsble’ to see the data stored.

2024-06-17 21:52:35 UTC

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“please let me in your house”

2024-06-14 01:11:39 UTC

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that all looks huge.. that’s just a big motor?
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/612/310/782/863/353/original/866873c662d3ddd5.png

2024-06-14 01:02:58 UTC

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you look like the first to arrive.. also what’s going on on the skateboard by the wheels?

2024-06-10 19:14:55 UTC

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yes our developer made a one-off error on line 256. It has already been fixed in the development branch.

2024-06-09 23:54:44 UTC

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what you going to get for your meal?

2024-06-09 00:28:39 UTC

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maybe some Apple engineer commented out that code in one of the Sonoma releases..

2024-06-08 23:01:33 UTC

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rookie mistake to ship an app right before having to fly somewhere 😆🤣

2024-06-08 22:34:47 UTC

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a bike shop shouldn’t charge you to look at the bike and tell you what you need.

2024-06-06 21:42:12 UTC

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I've enabled it and do see the very small apple music icon at the top of my watch but before turning it off the audio app would take over the whole watch screen.
@npub1u20…nlnn

2024-06-06 21:14:44 UTC

Hoping that Apple can use AI/ML to figure out that I never want to control my music with my watch and stop always showing the controls I've never used.

2024-06-06 20:45:16 UTC

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that info doesn't always make it to other instances I've noticed. But yes of course we eat our own dogfood.
https://tapbots.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/571/626/863/710/645/original/7dea789b5dd415b6.png
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2024-06-06 20:37:08 UTC

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how many dogs rule over your household these days? I find one more than enough work/effort and $$.

2024-06-05 05:28:28 UTC

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drugs (sleeping pill)

2024-06-02 05:13:34 UTC

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what’s with all the commas in steps?