Apple (video, Hacker News, MacRumors): By combining the power of the H1 chip with an Apple-designed acoustic system, the new AirPods use computational audio to deliver breakthrough sound with Adaptive EQ. Users can enjoy spatial audio featuring Dolb…
Lees meerDave Nanian: Part of rolling these Betas slowly involves trying to figure out how to help users when these failures happen: basically, it’s a learning process, and when we can’t refer to the code, and the errors are (at best) a number and a word or …
Lees meerMike Wuerthele (also John Gruber): The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) is in charge of enforcing compliance with the new App Store payment law. While Google says that it plans to comply in full with the law, including the adoption of third-par…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The British government has expressed support for Apple’s now-delayed CSAM scanning plans, and says that it wants the ability to scan encrypted messages for CSAM, even where end-to-end encryption is used. Tim Hardwick: More than a dozen …
Lees meerApple (PDF, via Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): iPhone is a highly personal device where users store some of their most sensitive and personal information. This means that maintaining security and privacy on the iOS ecosystem is of critical impor…
Lees meerAndy Matuschak: Why are there no “standard texts” on designing software interfaces? (or tell me I’m wrong?)If you want to learn to build software, there are excellent and complete texts on the subject. It’s not just a tech-vs-art thing: there are st…
Lees meerArthur Edelstein (via Hamed Haddadi): PrivacyTests.org is an open-source testing program that measures browser privacy characteristics, and a website, https://privacytests.org, that renders the results for human consumption.
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: After subsequently moving them into an XPC service and thinking it would “just work”, I found that it didn’t. At least not reliably. Maybe every 8th or 9th time, yes, it did all it was asked to do, but every other time, it outri…
Lees meerBrendan Shanks: A hack allowing the use of Xcode 9’s toolchain on macOS Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey. Xcode 9.4.1 and the macOS 10.13 SDK are the last versions capable of building 32-bit Intel (i386) binaries. Due to internal frameworks that refe…
Lees meerZev Eisenberg (tweet): Type with one hand, no special hardware required! I wrote Keyb while holding my sleeping daughter in one hand. It’s also great for permanent and temporary disabilities, or tasks where you want to keep one hand on the mouse, li…
Lees meerFranklin Schrans: Swift-DocC encompasses tools and libraries to help developers write and generate documentation on many platforms, including macOS and Linux, with the goal to support all platforms with a Swift toolchain. The docc command line tool …
Lees meerMicrosoft: We’re moving Visual Studio for Mac to native macOS UI, which will fix over 100 previously reported issues related to performance, reliability, and product quality. By using native macOS UI, the IDE now works more reliably with macOS’s bui…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: One would think the URLSessionTaskDelegate would have some affordance that calls you back when new bytes come in, but if that exists, I couldn’t find it. However, iOS 15 brings a new API that can be used for this purpose — a byte-by…
Lees meerJason Snell: What if someone built a tablet that could run a wider selection of apps but still had the crisp, clear look of an E Ink screen? In fact, a few companies have been trying to marry E Ink with Android for a while now. Recently I got a chan…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: What’s always confused me is that the timer makes “I’m done with this” the primary action, while the alarm makes “I need more time” the primary action. Why is this? Even after years with this UI, I still get it wrong sometimes because…
Lees meerDiana Prodan (release notes): 15 years ago, the small team of developers at Smile acquired the core product we now know and love called TextExpander. In those 15 years, we’ve been through many iterations and changes to the product, and our small tea…
Lees meerMozilla (via JP): Last year, during lockdown, many discovered the importance of PDF forms when having to deal remotely with administrations and large organizations like banks. Firefox supported displaying PDF forms, but it didn’t support filling the…
Lees meerDave DeLong: Every year as new OS and Swift versions are released, the question comes up over and over again: “how do I use this new thing while also supporting older versions?”. While we have a bunch of “availability” tools at our disposal (and I’l…
Lees meerJeff Verkoeyen: This year my team shifted the open source Material components libraries for iOS into maintenance mode.Since 2012 and the original launch of Google Maps iOS, my team has supported the creation and maintenance of shared UI components a…
Lees meerJay Peters and Sean Hollister (PDF, tweet, MacRumors): While Apple largely won that case (the company went so far as to call the ruling a “resounding victory”) with Judge Gonzalez Rogers ruling in favor of Apple in nine of the ten claims Epic brough…
Lees meerVladimir Prelovac (Hacker News): Orion is fast, privacy-respecting and open to the web, standards and protocols. If you want a browser that just works, is lightning fast, respects your privacy, stays out of your way and lets you get the job done, Or…
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