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Auto-Mount Metal Toolchain Using a Launch Service Because Xcode 26 Cannot
Published: January 14, 2026 05:23
Xcode 26 introduced a bug where for some people, me included, Metal shaders wonāt compile because the Metal toolchain wonāt be managed by Xcode properly, no matter how often you reinstall the toolchain. Some fixes include moving the toolchain into a folderā¦
Manually Mount the Metal Toolchain When Xcode Cannot
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/manually-mount-metal-toolchain/
Published: January 7, 2026 06:01
My Xcode 26.2 still suffers from an inability to compile Metal shader files because it canāt find the Metal toolchain: error: cannot execute tool āmetalā due to missing Metal Toolchain; use: xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain That command alsoā¦
Emacs Carnival 2026-01: āThis Year, Iāll ...ā
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/emacs-carnival-2026-01-this-year-i-will/
Published: January 5, 2026 05:05
Welcome to 2026, and a new year of Emacs Blog Carnival post! To start the Gregorian calendar year fresh, the blogging/writing/thinking prompt of this month is: This year, Iāll ā¦ What will you do differently in Emacs this year? Or will you just get started?ā¦
Announcing the German Urban Sketchers Index
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/announcing-german-urban-sketchers-index/
Published: January 3, 2026 10:30
Happy 2026! Letās start the year with something fun. The internet shortly became the place of love and joy and sharing that I remember it for: a volunteer who found all (?) Urban Sketching groups in Germany, official and unofficial, reached out to me toā¦
The People Who Got Me into Emacs
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/12/the-people-who-got-me-into-emacs/
Published: December 31, 2025 07:45
This is my entry to the December Emacs blog Carnival hosted by George Jones this month: Emacs is the most people-centric technology Iāve ever used. Iām willing to bet thatās true for others as well. Who are your āPeople of Emacsā?
SwiftUI DocumentGroups Are Terribly Limited
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/07/swiftui-documentgroups-limited/
Published: December 19, 2025 05:52
For InfiniteCanvas, Iāve started the app as a single-window application on Mac. As it got useful, I switched it to become a document-based app. SwiftUI has some facilities for this. This is how little you need to get started: And that produces:
How a (Wooden) Wood Plane Planes Wood
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/12/how-a-wooden-wood-plane-planes-wood/
Published: December 13, 2025 05:36
This may come as a surprise if you havenāt noticed my Mastodon posts about woodworking here and there in the past 2 years, but Iāve picked up hand-planing wood to the delight of our toddler ā the shaving are just too fun to play with. Thereās this weirdā¦
Join the All-Virtual EmacsConf December 6 and 7 and Check out My Zettelkasten Talk
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/12/join-all-virtual-emacsconf-december-6--7-zettelkasten-talk/
Published: December 2, 2025 20:09
Today is 2025-12-02, and in four days, 2025-12-06, EmacsConf will happen! My talk will be āZettelkasten for Regular Emacs Hackersā (I already uploaded some āattachmentsā, but: Spoiler Warning!), for which my pitch is: you need to create your own thinkingā¦
Rsync File Copying from Dired with Transient Menu
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/11/rsync-file-copying-from-dired-with-transient-menu/
Published: November 26, 2025 11:34
Async copying with TRAMP usually doesnāt work the way I want them to. Could be my wonky NAS, could be the file sizes. Consistently, I have much better results with rsync from the terminal, but I donāt want to type the invocation every time I want to move aā¦
Whatās a Zettelkasten Good for in the Age of Affordable LLMās?
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/11/whats-zettelkasten-good-for-in-age-of-llms/
Published: November 21, 2025 15:32
Last Saturday was Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR) and one challenge session was to only use AI with prompts to implement the Game of Life rules. Folks who donāt use LLMās a lot tried to describe the rules to the LLM in their prompts ā while others knewā¦