Adam Chalmers (via Jim Rea): My computer science degree had taught me all about algorithms, data structures, type systems and operating systems. It had not taught me about containers, or ElasticSearch, or Kubernetes. I don’t think I even wrote a sin…
Lees meerDan Moren: Once upon a time, Apple offered its lightest notebook in two sizes: the 13-inch it sells today and a smaller 11-inch model. Alas, only the good die young, and the 11-inch Air was discontinued in 2019—the same year that Apple discontinued …
Lees meerWill Yager: Every time I tried to take a picture of the engraved text, the picture on my phone looked terrible! It looked like someone had sloppily drawn the text with a paint marker. What was going on? Was my vision somehow faulty, failing to see t…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Twitter’s latest bonehead move has led to a flurry of scam authenticator apps, with at least one of them using App Store advertising to figure prominently in search results – and then sending all scanned QR codes to the developer’s anal…
Lees meerChris Hulls: What happened is that the thief who took Lyndsey’s bike got an alert that proactively told her an AirTag was following her location. And, after Apple’s most recent firmware update (December 2022), the thief could even use the precision …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: The latest cautionary tale was shared this week by a Reddit user in California, who claimed that the iPhone 14 Pro Max and Apple Watch Ultra they ordered through Apple’s online store with same-day delivery was falsely marked as delive…
Lees meerWe’ve known that Google pays Apple billions for Google searches from Safari, but I had missed that Google is also paying for searches made through Chrome. Bloomberg (in 2020, via Chance Miller): Apple also gets a slice of revenue from searches made …
Lees meerBrady Eidson and Jen Simmons (Hacker News): Today also brings the first beta of Safari 16.4. It’s a huge release, packed with over 135 features in WebKit — including RegExp lookbehind assertions, Import Maps, OffscreenCanvas, Media Queries Range Syn…
Lees meerMiles Wolbe: Some contacts would not export to vCard from Contacts.app, instead exhibiting the following behavior:when clicked and dragged alone, the resulting file, “Contact.vcf”, was zero KBwhen clicked and dragged with unaffected contact(s), affe…
Lees meerSteve Bennett (Hacker News): Today, Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the costs for developers utilising the Bing Search API starting from 1st May 2023, and the rise is quite substantial in a move that shows some similarities to what T…
Lees meerMark Zuckerberg (Hacker News): [This] week we’re starting to roll out Meta Verified -- a subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to b…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (MacRumors): Whereas previously installing an iOS beta required a special profile, that process will now be tied to the developer’s Apple ID. […] “Your iPhone or iPad must be signed in with the same Apple ID you used to enroll in the…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: As before, when you’re viewing a Mastodon page in another instance, clicking the extension icon in Safari’s toolbar opens that page in your own instance. On the other hand, when you’re viewing a Mastodon page in your own instance, clic…
Lees meerJim Carroll: People also need to understand they can do their own instance and avoid all this server migration stuff in their Mastodon home going down or becoming unstable. Having a domain-name-related instance that belongs to you negates any of the…
Lees meerSveinbjörn Þórðarson (Hacker News): Sloth is a native Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system. This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files and sockets. It’s open-source. See als…
Lees meerJuli Clover (full installer): Today’s update addresses an ongoing issue with Safari icons. The Big Sur 11.7.3 update introduced a bug that prevented icons from showing up in the Safari Favorites section. Spaces where icons normally appear were blank…
Lees meerDavid Kopec: For one-off contact additions, there’s a simpler way that requires none of that. The idea is basic: you create a contact, save it in vCard format, and then ask the operating system to open the vCard file in the Contacts app. When the Co…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Does it matter which Mastodon instance you choose? I’ve seen many people claim that it doesn’t matter, and moreover that you can easily switch instances. I learned the hard way that this claim is unwarranted, a disservice to new Mastod…
Lees meerNoah Martin: A 150MB+ app binary file, like the one in Uber‘s app, takes between 500 ms and 1 second just to be loaded into memory (measured on an iPhone 6s). Loading large files like this is just a fraction of the app‘s launch time. To put in persp…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Among the rough edges in macOS is that infuriating message you may see when you try to eject or unmount a volume: it failed because the volume is in use.[…]In Disk Utility, the answer seems to be to try again, several times if necessa…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: Unfortunately, colors generated like this look really bad. They often come out muddy and ruddy, and generating more than one color doesn’t come with any pattern or structure. The colors are all over the place. This is a structural p…
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