Jeremy Schonfeld: We propose creating a new value type, Predicate, as part of the FoundationEssentials package, that addresses these problems. These new constructions of predicates will be expressed using standard Swift syntax elements and are fully…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): Today’s macOS Ventura update introduces the Freeform app, designed to allow users to sketch, draw, and write on a blank whiteboard-style canvas that can be used with…
Lees meerJuli Clover (security, developer): Today’s iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 updates bring several notable features to iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, including the Freeform app, which is a sort of digital whiteboard that you can use for anything, while also working c…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple Pay’s tokenization process prevents Stripe, our payment processor, from knowing the expiration date for the actual card. Instead, Stripe—and the Paid Memberships Pro plug-in that we use to manage TidBITS accounts—displays a seeming…
Lees meerSimon Peyton Jones (via Ian Kettlewell, Hacker News, slides): Since joining Epic Games in late 2021, I have been involved in the design and development of Verse, a new, declarative programming language that Epic plans to use as the language of the m…
Lees meerOver the last month or two I’ve made several improvements to this blog: The CSS now adapts the colors for Dark Mode. I’ve adjusted the WordPress caching so that pages should load much faster. No matter what I did, I kept running into an issue where …
Lees meerTony Parker (tweet): The swift-corelibs-foundation project helped launch the open source Swift version of Foundation in 2016, wrapping a Swift layer around the preexisting, open source C implementation of Foundation. […] Today, we are announcing a n…
Lees meerMTW (via Ryan Jones): ✨ Introducing Background Tool in Annotate - easily create beautiful social media posts that stand out from others 🎨 Crop Tool will now recognize background color - automatically detects background color when you expand the canv…
Lees meerFederal Trade Commission (via Hacker News): The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block technology giant Microsoft Corp. from acquiring leading video game developer Activision Blizzard, Inc. and its blockbuster gaming franchises such as Call of…
Lees meerStar Trek Voyager kicks off the show, then Tim and David discuss Stargate, Black Adam, Drones, and the changes within DC Universe
Lees meerMozilla (via Hacker News): Firefox Translations provides automated translation of web content. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally, on the client-side, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Previousl…
Lees meerSam Rowlands: Have you ever travelled somewhere to find that your MacBook is nice and warm, with next to no battery left? If so, these are the common causes of a “Hot Bag MacBook” that we’ve found so far. His Sleep Aid app can also help determine wh…
Lees meerUnsplash: We are excited to announce the launch of Unsplash+. An Unsplash+ subscription gives you access to curated content that is royalty-free and available for commercial use. Members will get access to a constantly growing library of premium vi…
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