Noah Martin (Hacker News): The entry point to our investigation is Mike Ash’s PR which implements a 13x faster cache that was released in Swift 5.4. […] We now see that the speed of protocol conformance lookups is dependent on the number of conforma…
Lees meerDave Hamilton (tweet): In December 1998, Bryan Chaffin and I co-founded The Mac Observer. And now, 23 years later… the site was acquired.This next step in the site’s evolution is a good one. Dr. Serhat Kurt has long been a fan of The Mac Observer in…
Lees meerSimon Baker: In this article we want to look at what the “HDMI 2.1” term really means, and address a worrying early sign in the market of things to come. We’ve delved in to what is required for this certification and what that means to you as a cons…
Lees meerAlexander King: Everyone knows game designers love working with spreadsheets, but there aren’t enough games that run in spreadsheets. But my students are helping set things right. Check out some of their amazing games, all playable in Excel or Googl…
Lees meerAnkur Thakur (via Dave Mark): This tutorial shows you the steps to sign out of iCloud and your Apple ID (both are the same) on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. […] Here’s what happens when you sign out of iCloud or Apple ID. Please note that…
Lees meerRene Ritchie: What do you want to see in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 this year? What major new features do they need? What should be removed or changed? What would improve your quality of life? There are lots of good replies. I’ll probably think of more, b…
Lees meerSparkle: Sparkle 2 adds support for application sandboxing, custom user interfaces, updating external bundles, and a more modern architecture which includes faster and more reliable installs. This has been many years in the making. Release notes: Mo…
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu: The defacto way of reacting to Right Command + some other key is to monitor all key events (yes, just like a keylogger), and discard events that don’t contain the Right Command modifier flag. Easy peasy, right? Well no, because that’s…
Lees meerBrian Webster: The problem is that I usually have Xcode’s built-in “All Exceptions” breakpoint enabled when debugging my application, but when I run unit tests in Xcode, I have certain unit tests that will throw exceptions and trigger the breakpoint…
Lees meerMarc Marasigan (via Hacker News): According to PCWorld, the account in question had been inactive for more than a year when the owner decided to take a break from gaming. “In 2020, I sold my PC because I was gaming way too much and it went a bit ove…
Lees meerTumblr: For those of you who access Tumblr through our iOS app, we wanted to share that starting today you may see some differences for search terms and recommended content that can contain specific types of sensitive content. In order to comply wit…
Lees meerVersion Museum (via Hacker News): The Control Panel in Microsoft Windows has been around as long as the operating system itself. It’s been the nerve center for the world’s most popular desktop operating system since 1985, when Windows 1.0 debuted. O…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (PDF): Apple must let dating apps like Tinder and Match offer payment methods other than Apple’s in-app purchase system in the App Store in the Netherlands, or else it will face fines, the Dutch competition regulator announced today.[……
Lees meerJack Wallen (via Hacker News, MacRumors): RLBox is a new method of sandboxing, which makes it easy to efficiently isolate subcomponents and make Firefox more secure. RLBox uses WebAssembly to isolate possible buggy code. […] How RLBox works is compl…
Lees meerRony Fadel (tweet): How to QuickLook an object in Xcode if you only have its address […] How to demangle Swift symbols […] Asserting on which queue your code is running […] Reading a [SwiftUI] view’s size without affecting its layout […] Diagnosing …
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith: Apple really needs to throw out its crowdsourced machine-learned autocorrect system entirely. Autocorrect used learn from everything I typed, now it interjects with typos & weirdisms from random internet users. It’s been a com…
Lees meerAdam Doppelt (tweet, via Hacker News): Recently my team was tasked with building a favicon fetcher. As a warmup, I looked to see how Chrome handles favicon loading. Do you know that the favicon loader in Chrome is many thousands of lines of code? Wh…
Lees meerDieter Bohn: If Google sticks to its roadmap, by this time next year Chrome will no longer allow websites to use third-party cookies, which are cookies that come from outside their own domains. The change theoretically makes it vastly more difficult…
Lees meerJoe Groff (via David Smith): For these reasons, we think it makes sense to change the the language rules to follow what is most users’ intuition, while still giving us the flexibility to optimize in important cases. Rather than say that releases on …
Lees meerMichael Feeney (Hacker News): To help me understand how modern applications would have looked liked in the Mac OS 9 era, I had to start analysing the OS in greater detail.[…]I then started creating a Library of Mac OS 9 components that I reused thro…
Lees meerGaël Elégoët (in 2014, via Hacker News): Funnily enough, now that we have reached a state of almost no limit in term of CG possibilities, the trend is to « simplify », starting with IOS 7 icons, and now the more flat look of 10.10 Yosemite slowly mo…
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