Kuba Suder (tweet): It was hard to figure out the purpose and intended use of each kind of button, and there were hardly any clues inside Xcode itself. So I decided to do some research to find some tips about what each button is for. I put together …
Lees meerZak Doffman (via John Wilander): Facebook goes even further, using the accelerometer on your iPhone to track a constant stream of your movements, which can easily be used to monitor your activities or behaviors at times of day, in particular places,…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple’s former Director of Mac System Architecture Jeff Wilcox this week announced that he has left Apple to take on a new role at Intel. As noted on LinkedIn (via Tom’s Hardware), Wilcox was part of Apple’s M1 team and he…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers today granted Apple’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the company by Jay Freeman, creator of an alternative App Store known as Cydia for “jailbroken” iPhones and iPads. Previously: Cydia Sues App…
Lees meerTechieFreddie (via Dave Mark): macos used to have intro videos, here’s their history! These are the videos that would play during installation, from Mac OS 8 through Snow Leopard. Previously: Default macOS Wallpapers 21 Years of Apple Home Page Tabs…
Lees meerPeter Hosey: Wordle is a word puzzle game by Josh Wardle. The game is this: Every day, there is a new five-letter word to guess. The word changes every day at midnight. You have six tries to figure out what the word is. In each of your guesses, the …
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: Kaleidoscope 3.1.3 and later can show XCTest failures in that format for you! No further trick or conversion is needed. Kaleidoscope parses the incoming content and automatically splits it into A and B parts, so the exact differenc…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo: The CodableReference property wrapper implements Codable and takes care of encoding only the id of the wrapped value, and decoding the id and resolving the reference when it’s being decoded. There is a missing piece of the puzzle th…
Lees meernumbers-parser (via Hacker News): numbers-parser is a Python module for parsing Apple Numbers.numbers files. It supports Numbers files generated by Numbers version 10.3, and all 11.x up to 11.2 (current as of November 2021).[…]Numbers uses a proprie…
Lees meerobb (via Zane Shelby, Hacker News): Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications via Apple’s Open Scripting Architecture.[…]ClojureScript code is evaluated through SCI, the same interpreter that powers babashka. SCI is compiled to JavaScript w…
Lees meerMichael Seibel (Hacker News): A recent small medical issue has highlighted how much someone needs to disrupt Google Search. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories. Health, product re…
Lees meerGerrit De Vynck and Cat Zakrzewski: The tech giants managed to build and launch the “exposure notification” framework in months, a previously unheard-of level of collaboration for the rivals. […] But nearly two years later, as the omicron variant sw…
Lees meerApple (via John Wilander): When Private Relay is in use, the user’s device opens up a connection to the first internet relay (also known as the “ingress proxy”). The software for the first internet relay is operated by Apple in locations around the …
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): I have no interest in Siri, and I don’t want my devices to phone home to Apple with so-called “anonymous” data that always turns out to be less anonymous than claimed. I expected that the OS would respect my setup screen choice…
Lees meerParker Ortolani: Rumors have started to pick up about a new more affordable Apple display that could come this year. Just this morning, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reported that the company is indeed planning to release a display in 2022 that’s half th…
Lees meerDale Weiler (via Richard Geldreich): There are a lot of arguments against the use of unsigned integers. Let me explain why I think they’re mostly incorrect. […] Trap representations are actually quite insufficient as they can only trigger at runtime…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Hyper also announced what it claims is the world’s first Thunderbolt 4 hub with an integrated 100-watt GaN power supply. The hub features one Thunderbolt 4 upstream port for connecting to and charging Thunderbolt-equipped computers li…
Lees meerTom Parsons (Hacker News): As I discovered during a recent conversation with Geaves and Eric Treski from the Product Marketing Team, much of the work in designing the new AirPods 3 revolved around trying to solve problems inherent in the brief to co…
Lees meerAdam Engst: He uses a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 printer designed for professional photos and fine art—this is a serious printer. After a recent upgrade odyssey from Mojave to Catalina to Big Sur, Charles started seeing problems with his printouts …
Lees meerJean Leon: Rating songs serves as a sorting method for the user’s music library. In this way, you can sort your songs according to the ones you like the most. Apple made it easy to use this feature with support for Siri voice commands. Then, users c…
Lees meerJohn Sundell: What if we could actually make our code fully testable in a way that doesn’t require us to introduce any new protocols, mocking types, or complicated abstractions? Let’s explore how we could make use of Swift’s new async/await capabili…
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