iOS 13 Beta

Apple: iOS 13 introduces a bold new look, major updates to the apps you use every day, new ways to help you protect your privacy, and improvements across the entire system that make your iPhone even faster and more delightful to use. […] Apps will l…

★ The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theater in San Jose on Tuesday 4 June 2019, John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2019.

★ The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theater in San Jose on Tuesday 4 June 2019, John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2019.

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Apple’s Audacity

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macOS 10.15 Switches From bash to zsh

Apple (Hacker News): Starting with the macOS Catalina beta, your Mac uses zsh as the default login shell and interactive shell. You can make zsh the default in earlier versions of macOS as well. […] zsh is highly compatible with the Bourne shell (sh…

Scripting Languages to Be Removed

Xcode 11 Beta Release Notes: Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. In future versions of macOS, scripting language runtimes won’t be available by default, and may req…

Xcode 11 Beta

Xcode 11 Beta Release Notes: Xcode 11 beta supports development with SwiftUI. Xcode supports uploading apps from the Organizer window or from the command line with xcodebuild or xcrun altool. Application Loader is no longer included with Xcode. […] …

Catalyst

iPad Apps for Mac Human Interface Guidelines: When you bring your iPad app to Mac, you give people the opportunity to enjoy your app in the context of the Mac’s large display, outstanding native performance, and ample local storage. […] To ensure th…

Syncing Core Data With CloudKit and NSPersistentCloudKitContainer

WWDC Session 202: CloudKit offers powerful, cloud-syncing technology while Core Data provides extensive data modeling and persistence APIs. Learn about combining these complementary technologies to easily build cloud-backed applications. See how new…

Music.app on macOS 10.15

Jason Snell: The Music app is basically iTunes—but with a design update that puts Apple Music at the fore. You can still see your entire music library, of course, and even buy music on the iTunes Store if you want to. As someone who uses iTunes with…

Updates to the App Store Review Guidelines

Apple: Guidelines 1.3 and 5.1.4. In order to help keep kids’ data private, apps in the kids category and apps intended for kids cannot include third-party advertising or analytics software and may not transmit data to third parties. This guideline i…

Sidecar

Apple (MacRumors): Sidecar lets you extend your workspace by using your iPad as a second Mac display. Work in one app while you reference another or view your artwork on your Mac while you use tools and palettes on your iPad. You can also mirror the…

Apple Reverses Course on MDM and Parental Control Apps

Joe Rossignol: As one of many updates to its App Store Review Guidelines this week, Apple has indicated that parental control app developers are again permitted to use Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology in their apps, so long as they do not s…

SwiftUI and Combine

SwiftUI: SwiftUI is an innovative, exceptionally simple way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. Build user interfaces for any Apple device using just one set of tools and APIs. With a declarative Swift syntax…

Mac Pro 2019

Apple: Power to change everything. Say hello to a Mac that is extreme in every way. With the greatest performance, expansion, and configurability yet, it is a system created to let a wide range of professionals push the limits of what is possible. F…

Memos — Photographic Memory

WWDC 2019 Links

General: Keynote (Goodnight Developers Video, Hacker News) Schedule Videos Beta Downloads Videos Downloader and App Customer Stuff: iPadOS Preview (my post) iOS 13 Preview (my post) macOS 10.15 Catalina Preview (my post, Catalyst, backup) watchOS 6 …

Final Marzipan Thoughts Before WWDC 2019

Neil Sardesai: “AppKit is our primary native framework and it takes full advantage of all the Mac has to offer. And in no way are we de-emphasizing that.” —WWDC 2018, Platforms State of the Union Craig Hockenberry: Cross-platform frameworks have a l…

Samsung Notebook 7

Cameron Faulkner: Of the two sizes, the 13-inch model bears the closest resemblance to Apple’s MacBook Pro, with its keyboard arrangement and center-aligned trackpad, and well, just about everything else about it. The 15-inch laptop’s design dashes …