I thought I was out of the woods in setting up new Apple Silicon test macOS systems, after finally working around a Sequoia bug to get old versions of macOS to install on an external drive. Then Apple released the first beta for macOS 15.5, and I fo…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: App extensions, appexes, have become plentiful and widely used by macOS and third-party software, yet discovering and controlling them is patchy and limited. The most coherent access is in System Settings > General > Login Items & Ext…
Lees meerAtilla (via Chris Turner, Reddit): A Bauhaus-inspired clock screensaver for Mac, designed to be present even when you’re not. Watch precision meets digital aesthetics, enhancing your workspace even when you’re away. $19 for lifetime upgrades.
Lees meerJen Simmons: Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.[…]Now, the web has the ability to evaluate the whole passage of text when figuring out where be…
Lees meerI wish I could just talk about useful apps today, but this week, it is impossible to talk about Apple news without talking about politics. For example, Aditya Kalra, Abhijith Ganapavaram, and Munsif Vengattil of Reuters report that Apple chartered p…
Lees meerI think it’s a good start, and I couldn’t be happier that the WebKit team is even tackling the problem at all. As Simmons notes, line-wrapping layout in web browsers has, until now, been very crude — and the web has been around a long time.
Lees meerTomáš Kafka: So, this is the first time I am filling a bug report against a whole WWDC talk asking for its retraction for misleading info and describing unimplemented features. It’s the “Efficiency awaits: Background tasks in SwiftUI”. Well, they di…
Lees meerWayne Ma (article): Apple’s decision to delay new AI features in Siri came after years of dysfunction and clashes between the AI/ML and software engineering groups. Many blame Siri’s poor leadership for its slow progress. Hartley Charlton: Apple app…
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: Thinking back to Apple’s statement to John Gruber boasting about Siri product knowledge, and Gruber rightfully pointing out on Mastodon that product knowledge isn’t very accurate, or helpful. I figured this was a time where I should …
Lees meerI think it’s a good start, and I couldn’t be happier that the WebKit team is even tackling the problem at all. As Simmons notes, line-wrapping layout in web browsers has, until now, been very crude — and the web has been around a long time.
Lees meerThis sounds like one of those puzzles job interviewers often ask, but there’s a practical relevance at the moment.
Lees meerThis sounds like one of those puzzles job interviewers often ask, but there’s a practical relevance at the moment.
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