I have a small utility app that I am building using AppKit and as such I have decided to adopt the new look and feel of macOS 11 (Big Sur) and the new HIG. So I decided to modify the tool bar of the app and adopt the new NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem which will give the app a very distinctive look. The following WWDC talk gives an overview of the new look and feel and what new controls are available in macOS 11. Read more

Currently I am developing a small utility app for the Mac as a side project, and one of the requirements is the ability to open a URL in a browser. The idea was to have a button that when pressed displays a context menu with several options which the user can select from. Kind of like a drop down menu but visually different. I am not an expert in macOS development and I am very inexperienced when it comes to AppKit, thus what seemed like a simple task actually took me some time. Read more