TN3161 (via Quinn): To condense this into plain English, this certificate says that “Apple certifies that this developer is associated with this public key, and the matching private key can be used to sign Mac code.” This is clearly a simplification…
Lees meerBluesky (Hacker News): Bluesky is building an open social network where anyone can contribute, while still providing an easy-to-use experience for users. For the past year, we used invite codes to help us manage growth while we built features like m…
Lees meerFlickr: To celebrate this huge milestone, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to explore all of the technological and structural moments that have shaped Flickr into what it is now. Mark Zuckerberg: 20 years ago I launched a thing. Along the way, l…
Lees meerAndré Jorgensen: Generic typealias can be used to simplify param types etctypealias Parser = (String) -> [(A, String)] […] func parse(stringToParse: String, parser: Parser) […] Finding Elements of Specific Type in Swift extension Array { func whereT…
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. […] We created Pkl because we think that configuration is best expressed as a blend b…
Lees meerAnnie Ropeik (2020): The owner of the Teatotaller café in Somersworth is taking on Facebook at the New Hampshire Supreme Court.[…]Owner Emmett Soldati markets them all on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. He says it was a blow to his business w…
Lees meerLuis Villa (via Hacker News): In October of 2021 the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) decided to launch what is believed to be the first significant open source lawsuit based in contract rather than in copyright. Critically, the SFC’s case argued …
Lees meerNick Lockwood: I once again got bitten by the fact that T? properties in a Swift struct become optional parameters in the synthesized initializer, making it easy to accidentally omit a property that you meant to set. The workaround is either to use …
Lees meerMike Piontek: I was looking at this [SimpleText document] icon for inspiration and now I’m wondering what the name of the newspaper is meant to be. pnop? 🤔 I like that the front page photo is a screenshot of a desktop. John Calhoun (via Cabel Sasser…
Lees meerThomas Steeles (via Jason Kottke): [Most] people know of the font. By that notion, Vincent Connare, the creator of Comic Sans, has exclaimed that “I made the best font in the world.” Whether you believe that or not, it doesn’t exclude the fact it wa…
Lees meerAshley Carman (2021, Hacker News): Spotify hoped he would bring much of that audience along with him when he signed exclusively to the platform in 2020 in a reported $100 million deal, giving it the reach and power needed to take over the podcasting…
Lees meerApple (Slashdot): More than 600 apps and games designed to take advantage of the unique and powerful capabilities of Apple Vision Pro will be available this Friday, February 2. […] Apps built specifically for visionOS, like Box, make it easy to coll…
Lees meerBarry Schwartz (via Hacker News): Now when you click the three dots for more information for a search result snippet, the cache button is missing. […] So how do you access the cache? Just Google cache:domain.com. You can also set up a bookmarklet: j…
Lees meerThe Iconfactory: With Project Tapestry, we’ll create a universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the Internet. A service-independent overview of your social media and information landscape. Point the app tow…
Lees meerApple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $119.6 billion, up 2 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.18, up 16 percent year over year. “Today Apple is reporting revenue growt…
Lees meerAmazon: As you may know, IPv4 addresses are an increasingly scarce resource and the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address has risen more than 300% over the past 5 years. This change reflects our own costs and is also intended to encourage you…
Lees meerBrody Ford (via Hacker News): Adobe Inc. will end its effort to create a web design product to rival Figma Inc. after the collapse of its proposed $20 billion acquisition of the startup. When it agreed to buy Figma, which helps users design app and …
Lees meerMatthew Hughes (via Colin Cornaby): Drives using the antiquated vintage HFS file system appear in Disk Utility, but you cannot mount them. Attempting to do so will produce the following error code: “com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 49153“.For…
Lees meerHenri Robbins (Hacker News): Linear switches have straight “legs” on the sliders that allow for a smooth and consistent key press. Because of this, they have no bump and will be faster to type on, but they won’t have a physical indicator to tell you…
Lees meerNilay Patel (Hacker News): Apple’s settled for building a headset with real-time video passthrough — it is the defining tradeoff of the Vision Pro. It is a VR headset masquerading as an AR headset. And let me tell you: the video passthrough on the V…
Lees meerCastro Team: We are excited to announce Castro has been purchased by Bluck Apps. Castro is a great app with a long history on iOS and many passionate fans, and it will continue to operate in its current form. This is a return to its independent root…
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