Florian Albrecht (Mastodon): Kaleidoscope can now directly talk to Git. While Kaleidoscope could always integrate with Git, until now it could only show the results of a Git operation, such as git difftool and git mergetool, which was typically init…
Lees meerMarco Cilloni (via Cédric Luthi, Hacker News): Reading the excellent article by JeanHeyd Meneide on how broken string encoding in C/C++ is made me realise that Unicode is a topic that is often overlooked by a large number of developers. In my experi…
Lees meerWasingtheisofwas (Hacker News): So this morning I go to update my apps. Instead of it going ahead with the update or asking for my fingerprint or the like, I get a message saying “your account has been disable in the app store and itunes”. […]I reac…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: So, I see three ways Sensor Tower collects usage information for apps and websites that aren’t their own: (1) ad-blocking web browser extensions, (2) screen time monitoring apps for Android and iOS, which on iOS requires access to Scree…
Lees meerMicrosoft (via Hacker News): Starting in August 2023, we will no longer support Cortana in Windows as a standalone app. However, you can still access powerful productivity features in Windows and Edge, which have increased AI capabilities.[…]This ch…
Lees meerJulia Buckley (via Hacker News): When they arrived at Denver after midnight, the bag wasn’t on the belt. United representatives at Denver gave them a case number and told them the bag should arrive on the 8.30 a.m. flight from Chicago in just a few …
Lees meerKagi (Hacker News): View the top domains that users create personalizations for. Some of the commenters are raving about the ability to boost and block certain domains. It’s an intersting idea, but at the moment it’s not clear to me how I would use …
Lees meerThe Verge (video): Sabotage, hired goons, and a landfill in Utah: this is a story about the life, death, and afterlife of Apple’s most pioneering flop, the Lisa computer. How it inspired generations of computers to follow; how Steve Jobs championed …
Lees meerBrave (via Hacker News): Brave Search is releasing its own privacy-preserving image and video search that is independent from Big Tech search engines. Users will no longer need to leave Brave Search for image and video search results. Now any Brave …
Lees meerApple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $81.8 billion, down 1 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.26, up 5 percent year over year. “We are happy to report that we had an …
Lees meerSvein Halvor Halvorsen: Even though we capture self unonwed in the outer closure, the callbacks that gets registered with the socket, are captured strongly. So even when the object above is released from where ever it was created, the object is stil…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Spectre, the long-exposure AI-powered iPhone camera app made by the developers of the popular Halide photography app, is now free. […] Previously $1.99, the app's switch to freeware marks the introduction of a new paid-for Pro version,…
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith: I like the idea of Xcode Previews, but in practice I can’t see the logic of putting elements in your codebase that will auto-open the canvas and take tens of seconds to render a preview (or an error) every time you open a sour…
Lees meerIsaiah Odhner (via Rhet Turnbull): MS Paint in your terminal.This is a TUI (Text User Interface) image editor, inspired by MS Paint, built with Textual.[…]Many file formats are supported, including ANSI art, raster images, SVG and HTML.
Lees meerBrian Webster: I couldn’t get my SwiftUI view to expand to fill up the entire superview that the NSHostingView was being added to.[…]The next thing I came across was a property on NSHostingView called sizingOptions, which is described in the documen…
Lees meerTobias Bernard: We’ve wanted more powerful tiling [in GNOME] for years, but there has not been much progress due to the huge amount of work involved on the technical side and the lack of a clear design direction we were happy with. We now finally fe…
Lees meerMichael Potuck (Mastodon): Mozilla has announced today that its read-it-later service Pocket will be retiring its Mac app this month. Users are encouraged to install the iOS app on their Mac or use the web going forward. The whole point of native ap…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Matt was referring to “Use Live Text to Digitize Your Cookbooks“ (5 January 2023), and he wanted to tell me about his service ckbk, which provides the full text of roughly 700 cookbooks to subscribers.[…]I downloaded the ckbk app to my i…
Lees meerColin Lecher: Meta and major tax preparation companies inappropriately shared millions of taxpayers’ financial data for years, according to a congressional report released today that was spurred by a Markup article. Our investigation, which was publ…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Company-wide memo from nominal X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino, sent this morning[…] Sarah Perez (via John Gruber): The owner of the @x Twitter handle confirmed that the company, now known as X, took over his account without warning or finan…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: By rights, settings in an app should only control the behaviour of that app. Settings for macOS behaviours should be controlled in System Settings, after all that’s what the name says. However, over the years Apple has hidden some awa…
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