Hector Martin (Hacker News): It turns out Apple’s custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don’t care about data integrity.[…]On Linux, fsync() will both flush writes to the drive, and ask it to flush its write cache to stable storage.But on m…
Lees meerLauren Rosenblatt: Knitrino, maker of an app by the same name that helps knitters navigate tricky projects and find unique patterns, recently signed on to support Epic Games, the North Carolina-based game and software developer behind Fortnite, in i…
Lees meerDKB (Hacker News, Reddit): Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending …
Lees meerShantanu Sinha (Hacker News): We’ve learned that a one-size-fits all approach isn’t what educators need from tools like G Suite for Education. Whether you’re in a rural elementary school, urban university or homeschool setting, our technology and to…
Lees meerPair, in 2018: Today, Liberated Syndication, Inc. (LSYN), the Pittsburgh-based podcast hosting network, announced that it has closed its acquisition of pair Networks, Inc.You can read the press release here. Frederic Lardinois: Akamai, the company y…
Lees meerMarco Eidinger (via Dave Verwer): A nice surprise is that SwiftUI supports GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). […] An Apple engineer confirmed the use of GFM in the Apple Developer forum.[…]Using a string literal in Text works. Fine, but using a string …
Lees meerBare Bones Software: Image files are browseable in disk browsers and projects, and openable into ordinary window sidebars. The image view includes metadata details, and a “Remove Metadata” button is available for deleting image metadata if desired. …
Lees meerKen Case: This multi-platform automation for our apps—called Omni Automation—is now extended by Shortcuts to the rest of the platform’s automation world. Shortcuts on the Mac makes that power more accessible than ever, both to end users and to devel…
Lees meerAnthony Chavez: Today, we’re announcing a multi-year initiative to build the Privacy Sandbox on Android, with the goal of introducing new, more private advertising solutions. Specifically, these solutions will limit sharing of user data with third p…
Lees meerSteve: My experiences with Microsoft dev relations over the past decade have been nothing but positive and frictionless. My experiences with Apple have been nothing but combative and “computer says no” Via Florian Mueller: As for “computer says no,”…
Lees meerSarah Perez: The judge has ruled that at least half the claims can proceed and is giving Eleftheriou the opportunity to amend the remaining items that were dismissed. […] In his own lawsuit against Apple, Eleftheriou aims to document what he alleges…
Lees meerBruce Lawson: One of the reasons Apple gives for the #AppleBrowserBan is to protect user’s privacy and security by fixing bugs quickly:“By requiring use of WebKit, Apple can provide security updates to all our users quickly and accurately, no matter…
Lees meerStephen Hackett: Apple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time. Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing developers to bring their iOS widgets over to the Mac in macOS Big Sur. Sadly, they all got stuffed into the…
Lees meerBasicAppleGuy: After releasing the MacBook Pro schematics, it became obvious that they lacked an element that I had often included in some of my earlier works: dynamic mode. This specially formatted .heic file automatically changes the wallpaper bas…
Lees meerBrad Smith: This regulatory process begins while many governments are also moving forward with new laws to promote competition in app markets and beyond. We want regulators and the public to know that as a company, Microsoft is committed to adapting…
Lees meerArnout Boks (via Cédric Luthi): A long-standing objection to making bulk changes to code using automated tools (e.g. to conform to a given code style) is that it clutters the output of git blame. With git 2.23, this does not have to be the case anym…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): The second beta of iOS 15.4 addresses an iOS 15 bug that was allowing the iPhone to upload some Siri recordings to Apple even when users had previously opted out of doing so, Apple said in a statement to ZDNet. […] There is no w…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): In an upcoming software update, every user setting up their AirTag for the first time will see a message that clearly states that AirTag is meant to track their own belongings, that using AirTag to track people without consent i…
Lees meerJuli Clover (download):Some affected users saw their Mac's battery life drop from 100% to 0% while in sleep mode overnight after installing the macOS 12.2 update, with both Intel-based Macs and Apple silicon-based Macs affected. The problem stopped …
Lees meerManton Reece: We are a small team, and maintaining so many different versions of our apps is difficult. On top of that, why invest so much time in Apple-only frameworks when Apple could upend our business with a new App Store tax or other disruption…
Lees meerMartin Thomson: For the last few months we [Mozilla] have been working with a team from Meta (formerly Facebook) on a new proposal that aims to enable conversion measurement – or attribution – for advertising called Interoperable Private Attribution…
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