{"id":27096,"date":"2019-10-30T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27096"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:50:24","slug":"twitter-for-mac-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/twitter-for-mac-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter for Mac 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolanOBrien\/status\/1189242160786350081\">Nolan O&rsquo;Brien<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolanOBrien\/status\/1189242160786350081\">\n<p>Along with all the improvements that go into Twitter for iOS, we&rsquo;ve also worked on some Mac specific things<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Fixed: scrolling would temporarily stop working when closing certain windows using ESC key<\/p>\n<p>Fixed: secondary clicking on a username would break secondary clicking for remainder of app session<\/p>\n<p>Fixed: when under the Messages tab, navigating into &ldquo;Message requests&rdquo; would not offer a way to back out other than clicking the Messages tab again<\/p>\n<p>Fixed: some windows could be dragged from anyone in their UI to move their window.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s good to see them iterating quickly. These look like a bunch of Catalyst-specific fixes, mixed in with more general improvements.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeoNatan\/status\/1189256300368142342\">Leo Natan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeoNatan\/status\/1189256300368142342\">\n<p>The new version is a great improvement!<\/p>\n<p>I am seeing a consistent CPU usage when the app is idle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/18\/catalyst-in-catalina\/\">Catalyst in Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/twitter-for-mac-returns\/\">Twitter for Mac Returns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/13\/podcasts-in-catalina\/\">Podcasts in Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"twitter-for-mac-8-1-update-2019-10-31\">Update (2019-10-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolanOBrien\/status\/1189957266104958977\">Nolan O&rsquo;Brien<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolanOBrien\/status\/1189957266104958977\">\n<p>We have submitted Twitter for Mac v8.1.1 for review w\/ a change to work around keyboard input issues in secure text fields.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of the change will be to add a modifier to all keyboard shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>e.g. To &ldquo;like&rdquo; a Tweet, the shortcut of L will be updated to be Command-L.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s too bad Catalyst requires this. In Tweetbot, I can just press F with my left hand while my right hand is on the mouse.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBeas\/status\/1189416778104999937\">Mike Beasley<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21401282\">Hacker News<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"twitter-for-mac-8-1-update-2019-11-02\">Update (2019-11-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartier\/status\/1190295483325014019\">David Chartier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartier\/status\/1190295483325014019\">\n<p>The fact that dragging a photo out of Twitter to the desktop creates a .webloc file instead of, you know, a photo is&#8230;. terrible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"twitter-for-mac-8-1-update-2019-11-05\">Update (2019-11-05): <a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/twitter-for-mac-is-not-a-good-mac-app\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/twitter-for-mac-is-not-a-good-mac-app\/\">\n<p>Text editing specifically is really hard to justify and is not what I would expect from any app on the Mac.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"twitter-for-mac-8-1-update-2019-11-26\">Update (2019-11-26): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1197087029370249216\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1197087029370249216\">\n<p>To access Page Up\/Page Down key on iOS\/Catalyst, there&rsquo;s no other way than using the undocumented UIKeyInputPageUp\/UIKeyInputPageDown constants on UIKeyCommand?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/1197328384281452544\">Marcel Weiher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/1197328384281452544\">\n<p>I guess that&rsquo;s why the up\/down arrow keys don&rsquo;t work in the new Mac Twitter client... &#x1F926;&#x200D;&#x2642;&#xFE0F;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gruber\/status\/1197405159111966720\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gruber\/status\/1197405159111966720\">\n<p>So I check the Memory tab: 223 GB.<\/p>\n<p>Catalyst is great &mdash; it&rsquo;s super good for the Mac platform that developers who can&rsquo;t write real Mac apps can now write apps for the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Sarcasm aside, it&rsquo;s actually astounding that this new MBP can handle an app with a 223 GB memory leak and remain completely responsive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan O&rsquo;Brien: Along with all the improvements that go into Twitter for iOS, we&rsquo;ve also worked on some Mac specific things [&#8230;] Fixed: scrolling would temporarily stop working when closing certain windows using ESC key Fixed: secondary clicking on a username would break secondary clicking for remainder of app session Fixed: when under the Messages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-10-30T21:08:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"182e8445-87b1-40ec-b03a-b20a120d61f3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-26T18:50:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGC6ERYexQOywOrIKEg1h8w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,1621,30,32,1666,49],"class_list":["post-27096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-marzipan","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-15","tag-twitter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27096"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27377,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27096\/revisions\/27377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}