![]() CCC isn’t like other apps that can easily roll with the changes our solution is tied so closely to the logistics of the startup process, and that happens to be something that Apple has been changing a lot since the introduction of APFS. The logic changes required to accommodate APFS volume groups alone are mind blowing. All of that time spent is subtracted from the time we can spend on feature work. To put it plainly, we spend about a quarter to half of our year just making CCC work with the next year’s OS. That’s not a shiny new feature that users can swoon about (and pay for!), it’s typically thankless work, and – fair or not – work that users have come to expect us to provide for free. ![]() ![]() The blog post goes on to talk how things are better now with Big Sur, but it’s something I too as an end user often take for granted – that all a developer has to do is spend time creating new features (the fun and sexy part of being a developer), while in reality a major part of their time also goes into just keeping the product working across OS upgrades (the not so fun and sexy part of being a developer). I know I get irritated when a PowerShell script I’ve written stops working because something in the software (e.g. Exchange) it talks to has changed I can only imagine how much more frustrating it must be for more complex software.Īnyways, enough digression. ![]() I decided to uninstall Karabiner as it wasn’t working at all on one machine and seemed to be causing kernel panics on the other. I use Karabiner mainly coz I have a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard and I’d like to set some keymappings for that. ![]()
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