Updating MiniMusic for macOS 27
MiniMusic is a little menu bar app I built to scratch my own itch: a fast, keyboard-driven way to control Apple Music without leaving whatever I’m working on. Hit a global hotkey, a dropdown appears under the menu bar icon, search my library or the catalog, hit return, and the music plays. It lives in the menu bar, ships updates through Sparkle, and otherwise stays out of the way. I upgraded to macOS 27 (Golden Gate) and two things were suddenly broken: the global hotkey did nothing, and album artwork stopped showing up. What I expected to be a quick afternoon of patches turned into a genuinely interesting tour of how SwiftUI’s menu bar support has aged. I worked through it with Claude Code, which was especially useful here because a lot of the debugging was empirical—build, run, observe, repeat—rather than something you can reason out from the docs. ...