Ole Begemann (Mastodon): A bit of experimentation reveals that it is in fact a relatively coarse source-code-based check that singles out invocations on DispatchQueue.main, in exactly that spelling. […] Fun fact: since this is a purely syntax-based …
Lees meerOle Begemann: SwiftUI’s .task modifier inherits its actor context from the surrounding function. If you call .task inside a view’s body property, the async operation will run on the main actor because View.body is (semi-secretly) annotated with @Mai…
Lees meerStephen Robles: Hands-on with Apple’s new FineWoven iPhone 15 Pro Max case in Taupe and Cypress Green Silicone Case! Apple’s announced at the Wonderlust event that it will no longer make any leather products, with FineWoven replacing the higher end …
Lees meerNitish Pahwa (via Hacker News): Today’s Quora, however, hardly meshes with those utopian aims. The once-beloved forum is now home to a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical, straight-up hateful, a…
Lees meerSamantha Cole (tweet, Slashdot): Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. […] The internal doc…
Lees meerSaagar Jha: If you’ve used SwiftUI for long enough, you’ve probably noticed that the public Swift APIs it provides are really only half the story. Normally inconspicuous unless something goes exceedingly wrong, the private framework called Attribute…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Mark Gurman, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple has canceled all plans to release an autonomous, electric vehicle, reports Bloomberg. Apple has been working on an Apple Car for more than a decade and invested millions of dollars into develop…
Lees meerRed Sweater: This update includes a major new premium scripting addition, facilitating mouse automation by providing a variety of new scripting commands, including a powerhouse for synthesizing clicks and drags[…][…]When automating mouse events, the…
Lees meerFeross Aboukhadijeh: Just when we thought we’d seen it all, an npm user named PatrickJS, aka gdi2290, threw us a curveball. He (along with a group of contributors) kicked off the year with a bang, launching a troll campaign that uploaded an npm pack…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user content for training purposes … The deal is said to be worth around $60M per year, and comes at a time when the company is seeking t…
Lees meerVatsal Manot: Folks, if you’re also frustrated with the state of Swift Macros (w.r.t. compile times), please engage on the forums thread here. I can’t think of any other language where such a fundamental feature is dependent on a heavy source packag…
Lees meerFTC (via Lina Khan): The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its …
Lees meerNeil Long (2023, Slashdot, MacDailyNews): In the 15 years since it launched the App Store, Apple has proved again and again that it cares very little about games – though it is happy to make billions from them. I should know: I was an App Store game…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Jony Ive tried to persuade Apple to cease making the MacBook Air, leaving a redesigned MacBook Pro as the only portable Mac.[…]Mossberg’s source said this led to a huge battle between Ive’s design team and the product managers, and was …
Lees meerKuba Suder: For the past 10 months, I’ve been a pretty active user of Bluesky. I enjoy it a lot, and I’ve managed to learn a lot about how it works, what works well and what doesn’t, and also what’s likely coming next.I’ve decided to write down some…
Lees meerBruce Dixon: We create and produce outstanding original content true to the Vice brand. However, it is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously. Moving forward, we will look to partner with es…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apple today introduced Apple Sports, a free app for iPhone that gives sports fans access to real-time scores, stats, and more. Designed for speed and simplicity, the app’s personalized experience puts users’ favorite leagues and t…
Lees meerSarah Perez: The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers who leverage his app’s marketplace to reach their students should have to share 30% of their income with Apple — its commission o…
Lees meerJesse Squires: On macOS 14 Sonoma there is a regression in Swift 5.9 which causes Swift scripts that import Cocoa frameworks to fail. […] The current workaround (also posted by @rdj) is to update the shebang, #!/usr/bin/swift, by replacing it with t…
Lees meerMahdi Bchatnia (via Daniel Jalkut): A simple Mac app for symbolicating macOS/iOS crash reports.Supports symbolicating:.crash and .ips crash reportssample and spindump reports
Lees meerAdam Wiggins (via Peter Steinberger): You’ve probably seen the meme about product distribution, and I went into this venture knowing that productivity software is particularly difficult to market.[…]I’m deeply grateful to the folks inside the App St…
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