Apple: Apple today announced changes impacting iOS apps in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). These updates create new options for developers to distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces and to process app payment…
Lees meerFatbobman: SwiftData provides a batch deletion API that is more modern and type-safe than its Core Data counterpart. […] Note: Unlike the standard single-object deletion modelContext.delete(_ model: T), batch deletion is only applied to the database…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When first introduced in Mac OS X, no provision was made for xattrs to have type-specific preservation, and that was added later using flags suffixed to the xattr’s name. For example, the com.apple.lastuseddate xattr found commonly on…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): “Every instance of UserDefaults shares the contents of the argument and registration domains.” In other words, the result of calling registerDefaults on the object returned by [NSUserDefaults initWithSuiteName:] is the same …
Lees meerAdam Engst: However, getting that playlist working this year proved intensely frustrating. Even though it contains over 300 songs, only a handful played when we asked Siri to shuffle the playlist on the HomePod. It made no sense—I could cause any so…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 26.3 adds a new “Notification Forwarding” setting that allows incoming notifications on an iPhone to be forwarded to a third-party device. The setting is located in the Notification section of the Settings app under a new “Notificat…
Lees meerDanah Boyd (2024): Since the “social media is bad for teens” myth will not die, I keep having intense conversations with colleagues, journalists, and friends over what the research says and what it doesn’t. (Alice Marwick et. al put together a great…
Lees meerNetflix’s “tadum” is so iconic that it’s the name of their company blog. HBO’s static + chanted om is the OG standard-setter. I suspect the new Apple TV fanfare will be seen in that class. The old one was not.
Lees meerAnthony Enzor-Demeo (Hacker News): Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and building technology that puts them first. […] First: Every prod…
Lees meerCameron Faulkner (Amazon): The 27-inch 60Hz 5K IPS screen delivers 217 pixels per inch (PPI) — just one pixel per inch shy of the pricier options. Who knew that there was a color-accurate, pixel-dense display out there that won’t send creators or th…
Lees meerHonza Dvorsky: Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. Configuration management has long been a challenge across…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Google today announced a new cross-platform feature that allows for file sharing between iPhone and Android users. With AirDrop on the iPhone and QuickShare on Pixel 10 devices, there is a new file transfer function available. The file …
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