Unity package damaged Mac

Summary The reported issue is a false positive “package is damaged” error on macOS when downloading Unity Hub or Unity Editor installers. This is not actual corruption; it is a macOS security quarantine flag applied to unsigned or notarized software downloaded from the web. This flag triggers Gatekeeper and Finder checks that report the file … Read more

How would I preform a selective deep copy in Java?

Summary Performing a selective deep copy in Java can be challenging, especially when dealing with classes from external libraries that cannot be modified directly. The goal is to copy specific fields from one class to another without copying all fields. This can be achieved using reflection or other libraries that provide deep copying functionality with … Read more

SwiftUI Toolbar appearance not updating when bound property changes

Summary A developer reported that a SwiftUI toolbar button’s tint color failed to update when the underlying data model changed, despite other parts of the UI updating correctly. The core issue was a misunderstanding of SwiftUI’s data dependency tracking: computed properties are not automatically observed by SwiftUI, causing the view to miss updates when only … Read more

Android Navigation Architecture Migration: Fragments as Navigation Owners

Summary The Android Navigation Architecture is a powerful tool for managing navigation within Android applications. However, when using interfaces and implementing them within MainActivity, it can lead to a lot of application crashes. Transferring responsibility for navigation to individual fragments can help alleviate this issue, but it can also lead to cluttered code. In this … Read more

What Programming Pattern to use for a generic HTML table data extractor

Summary A user is designing a JavaScript function to extract and filter data from HTML tables and is encountering difficulty managing multiple input types and filtering strategies without creating a confusing API. The core problem is not a runtime failure, but a software design anti-pattern: attempting to handle four distinct data transformation modes through a … Read more

Recommendations Java -Jakarta EE New web app – api

Summary A developer with legacy Java experience (SCJP, circa 2013) asked for recommendations on the data layer for a new Jakarta EE web application, specifically comparing Spring Boot/Spring Data JPA versus “straight” Jakarta EE. The developer explicitly required a traditional WAR deployment to a standalone server (no embedded servers) and needed standard CRUD operations via … Read more

Dioxus futures confusion: Futures not being run

Summary The issue at hand is related to Dioxus futures confusion, where a future is not being executed as expected, resulting in no data being displayed on the page. The code in question uses use_future to fetch a user’s name from a database, but the future is not being run, and no errors are being … Read more

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘trim’) for jquery.min.js

Summary The error Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘trim’) originates from the jQuery library (version 2.1.4 in the provided screenshots) attempting to perform string trimming on a variable that evaluates to undefined. While the error references jquery.min.js, it is almost certainly caused by application-level code (likely a custom script for Mapbox or … Read more