Iljitsch Van Beijnum (via Dave Nanian): But in the end it was Ethernet that won the battle for LAN standardization through a combination of standards body politics and a clever, minimalist—and thus cheap to implement—design. It went on to obliterate…
Lees meerJesse Peterman (via Hacker News): The #1 reason I started to consider buying an iPad a few years ago was for one thing, and one thing only: to read coding books. I have a kindle and I love it, but for coding books it is terrible. The large color scr…
Lees meerMegan Barker: It’s important to acknowledge that 2SV is a very valid way to secure your accounts, and improves upon the standard use of a username and password (one-factor authentication). The additional required step can prevent account compromise …
Lees meerDiscover Observation in SwiftUI: Simplify your SwiftUI data models with Observation. We’ll share how the Observable macro can help you simplify models and improve your app’s performance. Get to know Observation, learn the fundamentals of the macro, …
Lees meerVishal Gupta (Hacker News): If you installed or upgraded to the new Mozilla Firefox 115 or later version and you are getting “Some extensions are not allowed” error message on Extensions panel or flyout (puzzle piece toolbar icon), this article will…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When you first run an app that you’ve just downloaded to your Mac from a source that results in it being put into quarantine, the following has occurred[…] […] Some or all of those can also be triggered when a known app, which has alr…
Lees meerBeardy Guy: In general the app has been very stable and usable in my four months of use. And to be clear, it’s not just usable, it’s smooth and responsive on the M1 iPad, 8GB of memory. Being able to work with touch, Pencil and trackpad is a real pl…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: [From] Ventura onwards property lists that previously had to be installed in Library LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents folders can now be kept inside their app, making them even harder to locate. […] If your Mac has been in use some year…
Lees meerJuli Clover: In iOS 17, Family Passwords is designed to let you share your passwords and passkeys with friends and family members. Using the Passwords section of the Settings app, you can create a group of people to share passwords with.Using a setu…
Lees meerNick Heer: Reddit user “horizontalhole” discovered something curious:From 2017–2022 the Vatican flag SVG on Wikimedia Commons contained a mistake. You can now tell which flag manufacturers/emoji platforms used the file.[…]Indeed, Becker includes a s…
Lees meerHarry McCracken (2022, via Hacker News): It’s a milestone that only a few of today’s highest-profile tech companies—such as Apple and Microsoft—have reached. And much of Adobe’s long history is tangibly present in its current business, which is full…
Lees meerAmanda Silberling: Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store data, it’s expected to launch on July 6.It’s a good time for Instagram to enter the fr…
Lees meerAdam Engst: These attempts to phish you by notification are malware, plain and simple—the form known as adware. The alerts try to trick users into visiting a fake website and entering login credentials or credit card information to facilitate identi…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs has an excellent video about the trouble with gaming on the Mac. The video’s title says it all: “Macs Can Game. But Apple Can’t.” As Nelson explains, it’s not the hardware or the software that’s holding the…
Lees meerSteve Johnson (in 2016): Hidden in amongst a bunch of the usual highly dubious subscription statements from Carl Bass is an announcement that spells doom for Autodesk perpetual license owners. […] Translation: Autodesk is going to drive up prices of…
Lees meerAnders Borum: Today I’m launching S3 Files, a client for S3 compatible storage inside the Files app, share sheet, shortcuts and the Finder on Mac. It’s a universal app that costs $14.99 (lifetime) or $2.99 monthly: Our innovative “Smart Upload” feat…
Lees meerLoris Cro and Andrew Kelley (in 2020): In the early days, Zig was but a thin frontend in front of LLVM. This was instrumental for getting started quickly and filling in gaps of Andrew’s knowledge as a compiler developer. Now, the training wheels of …
Lees meerStephanie Bodoni: Apple Inc. is set for a showdown with European Union antitrust regulators, insisting it doesn’t need to make any more changes to its App Store after it was hit by formal charges over its treatment of music streaming rivals such as …
Lees meerJess Weatherbed: If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to eit…
Lees meerSarah Reichelt (Mastodon): I’ve written another book! This one is for people who want to get started in macOS development and here it is: macOS Apprentice, published by kodeco.com (formerly raywenderlich.com).If you’re a beginner or near-beginner wh…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Paste feels like the kind of clipboard manager Apple might make, especially version 4.0, which was released today. […] Each clipboard item is depicted as a square card with a header that includes an editable title, the date it was cop…
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