Mark Alldritt (Mastodon): MastodonLib is a library that allows you to query Mastodon timelines and post to a Mastodon account from AppleScript. This library is far from a complete implementation of the Mastodon API. Previously: LaunchBar Actions for…
Lees meerSteve Klabnik: you: “c is nice because there’s no hidden costs, you see every malloc and free, and know that the standard library doesn’t do shenanigans behind your back” Steve Troughton-Smith: libc does what 😟 Apparently I forgot to link to this ba…
Lees meerMatt Birchler (Mastodon): I think Apple should add touch to Macs, and I think that this will allow them to not only make current form factors better, but it will allow them to create Macs that are more flexible, more powerful, and more accessible th…
Lees meerLouie Mantia (via John Gruber): As part of this same release, I also redrew iTunes controls, like the playback buttons, LCD, and volume slider. I suggested making the “stoplight” window controls vertical, to eliminate the titlebar since that entire …
Lees meerNatalia Panferova (tweet): For a while we only had onHover(perform:) modifier in SwiftUI that is called when the user moves the pointer over or away from the view’s frame. There used to be no official way to continuously track the pointer location. …
Lees meerKathianne Boniello (via Jamie Zawinski): Facebook can secretly drain its users’ cellphone batteries, a former employee contends in a lawsuit. The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mo…
Lees meerJonathan Wight: I’ve been making a package of custom Swift (Parseable)FormatStyles for types that don’t currently get any love by the standard library.My main need for this is GUI apps showing complex 3D types (think a SwiftUI field editor for a qua…
Lees meerDavid Smith: Back in 2017 I had created a site which took the the audio of some of my favorite podcasts and tried to make them searchable by passing them through an automated speech-to-text engine. […] Thankfully since then OpenAI has released Whisp…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The White House asked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to investigate, and Axios reports that it also concluded antitrust legislation is required. The NTIA’s report is here (PDF). Jon Brodkin: The Biden adm…
Lees meerDoug Gregor: Swift folks, we’re busy working on a macros for the Swift language and would love your thoughts. It’s a big feature with a lot of details that need to be right.[…]As things are starting to work in the prototype, we’re putting them into …
Lees meerFederico Viticci: In simpler terms: what happens if you prefer the Apple ecosystem for UI and UX but you’re feeling hamstrung by it at the same time? […] The problem is that an iPad, at least for people like me, isn’t supposed to be a companion to w…
Lees meerApple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $117.2 billion, down 5 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.88. […] “We set an all-time revenue record of $20.8 billion in our Serv…
Lees meerOpenAI (Hacker News): The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits:General access to ChatGPT, even during peak timesFaster response timesPriority access to new features a…
Lees meerTwitter Dev (Hacker News): Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead. […] We’ll be back with more details on what you can expect next week. At present…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: I recently commented on Mastodon that I thought when it comes to third party apps, iOS is remarkably far ahead of Android. My feeling is that you can take the best app in a category on Android, and that would be the 3rd to 5th best ap…
Lees meerRodrigo Ghedin: iFood, Brazilian largest food delivering app evaluated at USD 5.4 billion, was accessing his location when not open/in use, bypassing an iOS setting that restrict an app’s access to certain phone’s features. Even when the reader comp…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: When you copy a large file or folder to another location in Finder using the Copy and Paste options, a pie chart progress indicator next to the copying item’s name gives you an idea of how long the copy will take to complete. If it loo…
Lees meerGreg Pierce: I got an email from Apple saying I’m eligible for the Small Business Program–which I am already in. Do we need to re-apply? So did I, though I don’t recall getting such an e-mail last year. There doesn’t seem to be a place to actually c…
Lees meerPeter Hosey: TIL about Disk Mount Conditioner, a macOS feature like the Network Link Conditioner but for file I/O. Throttle throughput or add latency to make a device behave like something slower. See man dmc(1) for details. dmc(1): The Disk Mount C…
Lees meerMia Sato and James Vincent: CNET is the subject of a swirling controversy around the use of AI in publishing, and it’s Jaffe’s team that’s been at the center of it all. Last week, Futurism reported that the website had been quietly publishing articl…
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu: You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision.Closing the lid is not an option because you still use the keyboard and trackpad, maybe even the webcam and Touc…
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