November 2024

Life

Creating a macOS application bundle

I really like the Crusader network test application for measuring network throughput and latency. It’s cross-platform and provides a useful reference for network measurements. But the macOS binary opens a Terminal window that’s confusing and “gets in the way”. Furthermore, you have to know which binary to use – Intel or Apple Silicon. I decided […]

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Creating a macOS iconset (.icns) file

I wanted to create a macOS bundle for an application that I use frequently, and wanted it to have an attractive icon. I had a good PNG image, and knew that there must be a way to convert it to the multiple sizes required by modern macOS. I found Ben Souchet’s png-to-icns repo that does

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