Adam Engst: The transition from version 14.4 of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers to version 15.1 has been confusing, to say the least. In late January, Apple released version 14.5 of all three apps, with the App Store claiming “This update contains bug f…
Lees meerBasicAppleGuy: A comparison between the original icons, the pre–Creator Studio icons, and the non–Creator Studio icons. Adam Engst: I have to wonder whether the Numbers icon expresses the designer’s disdain for Liquid Glass or the community’s critic…
Lees meerAgen Schmitz (MacRumors, Reddit): Goodbye iWork, hello Apple Creator Studio. Apple has released version 15.1 of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers with a bevy of new features, as long as you pony up for the Apple Creator Studio subscription[…] […] $129.99 …
Lees meerCraig Grannell (Mastodon): Still, I did write ‘Why I want Apple Arcade to include classic arcade games – and why that’ll never happen’. But now it has happened, thanks to Retrocade. And here’s the bit that genuinely surprised me: Retrocade is good t…
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): The traditional Mach scheduler attempts to achieve these goals by expecting all threads in the system to be tagged with a priority number and treating high priority threads as interactive threads and low priority threads as …
Lees meerBrent Simmons (2025): With retirement imminent — this is my last job, and June 6 is my last day (maybe I’ve buried the lede here) — I want to thank my team publicly for how they’ve made me a better engineer and, more importantly, a better person. Br…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn (Bluesky, Hacker News): I use Apple News to keep up on topics that I don’t find in sources I pay for (The Guardian and The New York Times). But there’s no way I’m going to pay the exorbitant price Apple wants for Apple News+ – £13 – b…
Lees meerColin Cornaby (Mastodon): Certain tasks have worked well for me. These tasks tend to fit the LLM model well. […] It’s probably not surprising that there is a relationship between the sunk cost fallacy and gambling. Gamblers get a huge dopamine rush …
Lees meerMark Alldritt (Mastodon): I’ve released a new command-line tool called AEQuery. It queries scriptable macOS applications using XPath-like expressions, translating them directly into Apple Events. The short version: you describe what you want using a…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. […] I think this results from Time Machine’s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnect…
Lees meerRich Trouton: Using the log command line tool doesn’t require root privileges or require admin authorization, but it needs to be run by a user with admin rights. […] What this does is create a sudo configuration which allows all members of the staff…
Lees meerTodd Heberlein: The first bug report, FB21850924, covers a terrible memory leak in SwiftUI’s Table view, a feature our program uses a lot. […] Despite the rapid updates to the data, the sample program only keeps 1000 records in a deque, so the memor…
Lees meerApple (RC xip, downloads, Hacker News): Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI. With agentic coding, Xcode can work autonomously toward a …
Lees meerMarcin Wichary: This scrollbar serves no purpose, so it will become visual noise for a lot of your users. But when you yourself use “shy” scrollbars, you might not even realize. Of course, the scrollbar is just a symptom of a bigger problem – an acc…
Lees meerDave Nanian: We’ve made some improvements to our scheduler to help mitigate some of the Tahoe “stalling during Dark Wake” problems. They’re not 100%, but things are better, and we’re investigating additional improvements for the next update. Previou…
Lees meerSarah Reichelt (Mastodon): [When] I scrolled down from the top, the content rows would scroll into the header, making the top messy and unreadable. This sort of overlapping and unreadable text is a feature of the various OS 26s, but in this case, th…
Lees meerApple (revision history, PDF, Hacker News): Topics added:Automatically unlock Apple devicesCommunicating emergency information using satellitesQuantum-secure cryptography in Apple operating systemsPlatform Single Sign-onEnergyKit data securityAttest…
Lees meerRichard Lawler: Emails released by the Justice Department on Friday appear to show that former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky not only consulted Jeffrey Epstein for help in securing his $14 million “retirement” package in November of 2012, but also in…
Lees meerMatt Gemmell (Mastodon, Hacker News): Executives, experts, engineers, and designers are all leaving for more lucrative positions at even less scrupulous companies. Apple is currently the GUI laughing stock of the industry, a position once firmly hel…
Lees meerOpenAI (Hacker News): Today, we’re introducing the Codex app for macOS—a powerful new interface designed to effortlessly manage multiple agents at once, run work in parallel, and collaborate with agents over long-running tasks. We’re also excited to…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: This [Apple documentation] is wrong, a discovery that took me about a half dozen attempts to update macOS on an external disk. I have a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip, specifically an M4 Pro chip, and the DFU port seems to be the …
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