Gian-Carlo Pascutto: Once the compiler was working, a similar exercise needed to be done with all the Rust crates we depend on. The need to update the compiler and the reliance of some crates on the exact compiler version, especially parts dealing w…
Lees meerSE-0298 (via David Smith, forum): Swift’s async/await feature provides an intuitive, built-in way to write and use functions that return a single value at some future point in time. We propose building on top of this feature to create an intuitive, …
Lees meerMaximilian Zinkus et al.: In Apple iOS we found a powerful and compelling set of security and privacy controls, backed and empowered by strong encryption. However, we also found a critical lack in coverage due to under-utilization of these tools. [……
Lees meerJohn Gruber: So the good news is that if you use Apple’s 18W adapter (which Apple provided with iPhones 11 Pro and iPads Pro, including the iPad Pro updates from March of this year) instead of their new 20W adapter (which Apple includes with the new…
Lees meerDrew Holden: Three years ago, America was locked in a battle for #NetNeutrality, and, by extension, life as we knew it. For the lucky few who survived, I invite you to join me on a quick stroll down memory lane to revisit the doom and gloom we were …
Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi (tweet): All your reading in one place, multiple account support. Sync with all major RSS aggregator and read later provider or use it with built-in RSS engine. Feed and folder management for RSS services. Folder and tag management f…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: By now, I expected NSSavePanel.allowedContentTypes to work, and then to have Xcode suggest to wrap access to that property in an if-@available block. But that doesn’t work at all. With macOS 10.15 Catalina being my main dev machine…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: What Apple appears to be saying is an APFS Time Machine volume requires a single container that takes up the entire disk—you can’t add other containers, and that container has access to all the store space on the disk. Within that c…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Signal had a bumpy start, but it’s now a well-polished and full-featured messaging app available for the most common platforms: iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux.[…]Every part of Signal is open source. The clients are published und…
Lees meerRecorded 17th January 2021 This week there was a virtual CES, somewhat reduced in size but still with its array of prototypes, new products The post Essential Apple Podcast 206: Simple photo and video adjustment with Darkroom appeared first on MyMac…
Lees meerDon Melton (tweet): Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming PC. […] While I certainly gamed my ass off with that homemade machine for awhile, it didn’t really become an essential device for me unti…
Lees meerJoanna Goodrich (via Hacker News): IEEE Life Fellow Jacob Ziv will receive this year’s IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership.”Ziv and Abrah…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: I’ve had some strange events in which my main working SSD sometimes vanishes from the Finder, although that external drive remains mounted normally. […] The first time that it happened, I assumed that the external SSD had somehow unmo…
Lees meerHarshil Shah (tweet): Going back to how Date works, it doesn’t model the actual clock time but rather a fixed point in time that can be interpreted in any time zone. And so what’s happening here is that the data is being interpreted as if it happene…
Lees meerJoe Nelson (via Hacker News): The most natural first attempt is to add an auto-incrementing integer column to track each item’s position[…] It requires updating a bunch of rows to insert one between others. […] What if we store the position of each …
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