Buzz Andersen: Am I the only one who finds Apple Universal Links to be, like, an enormous pain in the ass? Paul Haddad: As much as Apple makes a big deal about privacy, the fact that you can’t globally disable universal links feels like an info leak…
Lees meerDavid Smith: After 9 years, I’ve decided it’s time to shut down Feed Wrangler. I’m stretched too thin with my other apps, it’s time to let it go. I’ll turn off the servers next year on March 1, 2023. See also: Widgetsmith 3.0. Previously: Evergreen …
Lees meerMartin Mitrevski: SwiftUI has been around for almost 3 years now, and during this period working with it, I’ve noticed few groups of developer mistakes (both mine and from others) that can impact its performance. In this post, we will look at these …
Lees meerHoward Oakley (Hacker News): Apple claims that all its new models using M1 series chips come with Thunderbolt ports which support “USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)”. However, many users have reported performance which doesn’t reach 10 Gb/s for directly …
Lees meerBill Cheeseman: UI Browser will reach its end of life and be retired on October 17, 2022. The current release of UI Browser, version 3.0.2, will not be updated. On the end-of-life retirement date, the PFiddlesoft website will be closed. Thereafter, …
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith: For the longest time, Core Data had a very bad rap for iCloud syncing, so I just never engaged with it even after the APIs were improved. What is the story in 2022? Is Core Data + CloudKit in a good place, or nightmare fuel? W…
Lees meerOther World Computing: The miniStack STX now features Storage and Thunderbolt Xpansion, continuing its award-winning legacy as the best sidekick a Mac mini can have. Meet the world’s first Thunderbolt certified Thunderbolt 4 storage solution. With a…
Lees meerSatechi (via MacRumors): Keep your workstation tidy and every device within reach with Satechi Dual Vertical Stand for laptops and tablets. The 2-in-1 design supports your Macbook and iPad vertically at the same time, improving your working efficien…
Lees meerBen Thompson (Hacker News): Last week OpenAI released DALL-E 2, which produces (or edits) images based on textual prompts; this Twitter thread from @BecomingCritter has a whole host of example output[…] […] [C]reating games, particularly their art, …
Lees meerSEC 8-K (via Hacker News): On April 4, 2022, Block, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it recently determined that a former employee downloaded certain reports of its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC (“Cash App Investing”) on December 10, 2021 tha…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: While the number of users opting to let apps track them was low at first, a new research from Adjust shows that some people have been changing their mind about this option.According to the research firm, the industry feared that the…
Lees meerKosta Eleftheriou: I didn’t think this was possible: This App Store app [My Metronome - Tempo Keeper] immediately asks you for money and then disables the “Quit” option so that you can never close it! And it’s been like that on the App Store for yea…
Lees meerMichael Fey: Over the last couple years we’ve been making a concerted effort to unify our design language. We built a user interface that’s cohesive across all our apps, but also makes you feel right at home on the platform where you’re using it. Th…
Lees meerJosh Centers: I always somewhat regretted switching away from KeePass, which stores its encrypted database in a standardized, open format. The original KeePass has always been Windows-only, but there are multiple KeePass-compatible apps for all plat…
Lees meerApple (PDF): Today, economists at Analysis Group published a new report on the proliferation of third-party apps on the App Store, with new insights into how third-party apps perform in categories ranging from maps to music streaming, among others. …
Lees meerBareFeats (tweet): For the last three decades, Rob ART has been the Mad Mac Scientist, creator of the BareFeats website, where he combined his love of speed and Apple computers to report “Bare Facts on Mac Speed Feats.”Robert Arthur Morgan pursued t…
Lees meerwenestvedt (tweet): First announced on USENET in 1992, BBEdit has always offered powerful text-editing to Mac users. This week it turns thirty, and is still going strong! Some of its features remain unmatched, like the great multi-file search. […] S…
Lees meerGergely Orosz (via Hacker News): We are in the middle of the longest outage Atlassian has ever had. Close to 400 companies and anywhere from 50,000 to 400,000 users had no access to JIRA, Confluence, OpsGenie, JIRA Status page, and other Atlassian C…
Lees meerCore Intuition: Daniel talks about finally moving from Mercurial to Git and the advantages of standardizing on technologies that have “clearly won.” Core Intuition: Manton talks to Daniel about his decision to switch from Zendesk to Help Scout, and …
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Hacker News): Top Mac App Store dev abuses Free with In-App Purchase for bait-and-switch apps demanding upfront payment, not free in any respect.[…]This developer has 9 apps in the Mac App Store, all of which seem to have the same “bus…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple CEO Tim Cook today delivered the keynote speech at the Global Privacy Summit in Washington D.C. The conference, hosted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, is focused on international privacy and data prote…
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