Jeff Johnson: Clicking a link in a web browser changes the URL, and if you look at the browser’s history after clicking, you’ll see both the old URL and the new URL. The URL can also be changed programmatically, using the JavaScript Location API. Af…
Lees meerArmin Briegel: One reason python became so popular with MacAdmins, was that the pre-installed python on Mac OS X, also came with PyObjC, the Objective-C bridge for python. […] I’ll be honest here and admit that working with JXA seems strange, incons…
Lees meerLuc P. Beaudoin: The obvious advantage was providing configurable, direct access to context sensitive commands. […] To reduce the need to look down towards the physical keyboard, macOS could present a virtual command bar on the main screen. This wou…
Lees meerSarah Scire: Publishers tend to think of this as “retention.” A study of 526 news organizations in the United States found that only 41% make it easy for people to cancel subscriptions online, and more than half trained customer service reps in tact…
Lees meerGeoff Chappell (in 1999, via Hacker News): In e-mail of dubious origin sent to security expert Richard M. Smith, it is alleged not only that the AIM client software has a so-called “buffer overflow” bug but also that AOL actually does use its knowle…
Lees meerGlenn Faison: I recently saw first-hand why I should never copy and paste any code I found online (or anywhere, for that matter). […] To cut the long story short, what looks like a loose inequality check on line #4, is deceptively an assignment oper…
Lees meerlevel1807 (via John Siracusa): The well-known presentation already available on YouTube is from January 24 of 1984. What’s not so well remembered: Jobs did it all twice, in less than a week. Six days after unveiling the Mac at the Flint Center on th…
Lees meerErnie Smith (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): Around this time 30 years ago, two separate working groups were putting the finishing touches on technical standards that would come to reshape the way people observed the world. One technical standard res…
Lees meerBartosz Polaczyk (Hacker News): We are excited to be open sourcing XCRemoteCache, the library we created to mitigate long local builds. As the name suggests, this library is a remote caching implementation for iOS projects with an aim to reuse Xcode…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Now and then, we get a report from a reader whose TidBITS issue has an entire article formatted as a column of text that’s a single character wide. I could tell what happened in at least two cases, but I’m utterly stumped as to what migh…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Pacifist is a popular file extractor for macOS that lets users view and extract multiple file formats, including PKG, DMG, XAR, and TAR. CharlesSoft: Completely rewritten in Swift 5 […] Added command-line interface […] Support for A…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple in iOS 15.2 is making it easier for your loved ones to access your personal data in the event of your death with the addition of a Legacy Contact feature. A person set as your Legacy Contact gets a special code that can be provide…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced Self Service Repair, which will allow customers who are comfortable with completing their own repairs access to Apple genuine parts and tools. Available first for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 line…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The Help system in macOS is another of those areas which has become sadly neglected. The last time it had a thorough overhaul was back in High Sierra 10.13.4, when it was taken off life support and left hospital walking unaided. With …
Lees meerTom Warren (tweet): Surface Laptop SE will be sold exclusively to schools and students, starting at $249. It’s part of a much broader effort with Windows 11 SE, a new student edition designed to compete with Chrome OS that will ship on a range of lo…
Lees meerJamie Finney (via Daniel Jalkut): Along with a massive drop in sales, the little hits keep coming. In August, there were updates to the costs involved with shipping overseas that caused us to stop all overseas shipping for the foreseeable future. Re…
Lees meerAmir Shevat and Sonya Penn (Hacker News): Essential access includes immediate access to the Twitter API v2 upon signup, one App environment and the ability to retrieve up to 500k Tweets per month. This should meet the majority of developers’ needs, …
Lees meerPeter Ammon: #macOS Monterey users, are you finding your #GitHub notifications are all marked as read? It’s probably Mail loading GitHub’s tracker pixels remotely. Uncheck “Protect Mail Activity” and the notifications come back.Tracker pixels are ma…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has today renewed his attack on Apple and called for a single, universal app store that works across all platforms (via Bloomberg).[…]Sweeney added that Epic Games is working with developers and service p…
Lees meerDan Petrov (via Hacker News): Apple has quietly added a new tool in macOS Monterey for measuring your device’s Internet connectivity quality. You can simply call the executable networkQuality, which executes the following tests:Upload/download capac…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet, Eric Seufert, Hacker News): Apple allegedly buys Google ads for popular subscription-based third-party apps to bolster its collection of commission on in-app purchases, according to an investigation by Forbes. Apple has purp…
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