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Issues Adopting Swift Testing

I’m in the process of migrating from XCTest to Swift Testing. The basic stuff is pretty easy to translate, and in many cases I don’t even need to change the code inside my test methods. I’ve long been writing what Swift Testing calls expectations in…

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‘The Developers Who Came in From the Cold’

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‘The Developers Who Came in From the Cold’

Google Fi Still Doesn’t Fully Support RCS Either

iGeneration Reports Apple Will Stop Selling Lightning-Port iPhones in the EU This Month

Google Fi Still Doesn’t Fully Support RCS Either

★ On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople

This is why it’s more than vanity to put your name on your work, whatever your work is — it shows you take responsibility for its validity.

★ Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool

Like Viticci, I remain largely skeptical and uncomfortable with AI for purposes of generating original new stuff — writing, imagery, whatever. But as an assistive agent, it’s quite remarkable today and improving at a fast clip.

Social Media Algorithms Are Cultural Blandifiers

Take Control of Apple Media Apps

Take Control (via Kirk McElhearn): Back in 2019, Apple replaced iTunes for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS with three apps—Music, TV, and Podcasts—with audiobooks handled by the Books app. Take Control of Apple Media Apps is your guide to this post-iTunes worl…

Forked

Drew McCormack (Mastodon): I’m launching a new Swift framework called Forked for working with shared data, both on a single device, and across many.[…]The merging that @ForkedModel provides is pretty powerful. It does property-wise merging of struct…

Gemini 2.0

David Pierce (Slashdot): Google is releasing Gemini 2.0 on Wednesday, about 10 months after the company first launched 1.5. It’s still in what Google calls an “experimental preview,” and only one version of the model — the smaller, lower-end 2.0 Fla…

macOS 15.2 Breaks Bootable Backups

Dave Nanian (Mastodon, 2, Hacker News): Apple broke the replicator. Towards the end of replicating the Data volume, seemingly when it’s about to copy either Preboot or Recovery, it fails with a Resource Busy error.In the past, Resource Busy could be…

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GeeksPub – Skeleton Apes DieHard

Tim and David talk Skeleton Crew, Hollywood’s beef with Apple, YellowStone, Bruce Willis, DieHard, and how good the Planet of The Apes movies are. The post GeeksPub – Skeleton Apes DieHard appeared first on MyMac.com.