Update. Well I am a complete idiot. Of course I should have assumed that if I wanted to build something out of Darwin, other people in the past have wanted the same thing. I’m a fool for not noticing this page at opendarwin.org. The “darwinbuild” tool basically “follows the dark dependencies” for you. I haven’t […]

I’ve been pretty busy lately, and spread thin over a wide range of projects. One of the “new to me” experiences involves supporting a custom HID device via Apple’s IOHIDLib API. The IOHIDLib API allows plain-ol folks like me to interact with HID-conformant USB devices without installing any kernel-level drivers or extensions. Let me say, […]

On the morning of January 10, I woke up expecting to waste a couple hours of my day scouring web sites and IRC channels for the latest transcriptions of Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote speech. It didn’t really bother me that it was not being streamed live this year, because every other year when they’ve tried […]

A recent mailing-list discussion has raised my hackles about documentation. So at the risk of offending all the tech-writers out there, let me restate my thesis: Documentation Sucks! I’m not just saying that because I’ve been very slow to provide substantial documentation for my two in-house applications. The only thing worse than lack of documentation […]