John Gruber: iA Presenter is a presentation/slide deck creation tool where you write your deck using Markdown. But even though you’re creating with plain text, iA Presenter is, as you’d expect, an exquisite design tool. Information Architects: With …
Lees meerVenkat (via Hacker News): Starting version 114, Microsoft Edge, no longer offers “reset sync” button that deletes data from Microsoft Servers. The button has been replaced with “Re-sync now” option. So if you’re privacy conscious, beware, there is n…
Lees meerAndy Maxwell (via Mike Rockwell): The developers of Invidious, a privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube, have received a cease-and-desist notice from YouTube’s legal department. The free and open source software, which provides a YouTu…
Lees meerAlex Ewerlöf (via Christian Tietze, Hacker News): Almost everyone in the team had less experience than me (at least on paper) yet a simple task would take me multiple days longer than I thought. Yet, I felt dumb and helpless. […] You see, the leader…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Combining Core Data’s proven persistence technology and Swift’s modern concurrency features, SwiftData enables you to add persistence to your app quickly, with minimal code and no external dependencies. Using modern language fea…
Lees meerAMtwo (via Hacker News): The job that uploads the data dump to Archive.org was disabled on 28 March, and marked to not be re-enabled without approval of senior leadership. Had it run as scheduled, it would have completed on the first Monday after th…
Lees meercyanide: When I disable iCloud drive [the application] stays, suggesting that access to iCloud is still available.However, when iCloud drive is disabled, CKContainer.accountStatus returns noAccount, even though I am signed in. When I ignore that and…
Lees meerOle Begemann (quoting Accidental Tech Podcast): Anonymous Apple engineer on Apple’s bug reporting process : “If I get a bug from a developer and want to ask them a question, I can say, please ask the dev a technical question XYZ, and then assign the…
Lees meerChristian Selig (tweet, Mastodon, Hacker News, MacRumors): I’ve talked to a lot of people, and come to terms with this over the last weeks as talks with Reddit have deteriorated to an ugly point, and in the interest of transparency with the communit…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: In almost all cases, ‘cloning’ a volume also loses all versions in the Document Revisions database, unless the method of duplication creates an absolutely identical copy, with the same inodes and file system. iCloud is more complicate…
Lees meerGraydon Hoare (Hacker News): This is maybe not clear enough, and it might make the question of whether the project “really should have had a BDFL” a little sharper to know this: the Rust We Got is many, many miles away from The Rust I Wanted.[…]I wa…
Lees meerKeith Harrison: In iOS 11, Apple recommended you stop using the reachability API to check network availability before attempting a connection. Instead you configure a URLSession to wait for connectivity.The wait for connectivity model works better f…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Apple listened to feedback about Stage Manager and – at least so far – implemented the key improvements I wanted to see. I’ve been using Stage Manager on my iPad Pro since yesterday afternoon, and I even tested it on a portable ext…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Slashdot): Apple’s developer betas have historically been limited to developers who have a paid account that costs $99 per year, but with the launch of the most recent betas, that’s changing.Anyone can now enroll in the free version of …
Lees meerMysk: “Over a month of standby” This is how Apple used to market the iPad’s battery. Today, the iPad runs several background processes while in standby. My HomeKit experiment clearly shows that. I achieved 20 days of standby on my iPad Pro. Without …
Lees meerJames Dempsey: The idea of being able to adopt upcoming changes sooner rather than later is a good one. However, adding an ever-increasing number of separate compiler flags for each upcoming feature does not scale well.To address this, Swift evoluti…
Lees meerGeneral: Keynote (YouTube) Sessions Videos Beta OS Downloads (Installer, Xcode) Unofficial WWDC App (script to name videos by title) Sample Code What’s New: Apple API Changes List Apple Updates (SwiftData, Observation, ExtensionKit, Symbols, AppKit,…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): With tvOS 17, FaceTime comes to Apple TV 4K, so users — for the first time ever — can enjoy the popular app on their TV for even more engaging conversations with family and friends. tvOS 17 also introduces an all-new Control Cente…
Lees meerApple: Discover the latest productivity and performance improvements in Xcode 15. Explore enhancements to code completion and Xcode Previews, learn about the test navigator and test report, and find out more about the streamlined distribution proces…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world, while allowing users to stay present and connected to others. Vision Pro creates …
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apple today previewed watchOS 10, bringing Apple Watch users a fresh approach to quickly view information with redesigned apps, a new Smart Stack to show relevant widgets right when they’re needed, and delightful new watch faces. …
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