Jeff Johnson (tweet): Curiously, the API documentation for shadowOffset is now shared between AppKit and UIKit. […] So there is a change in behavior of NSShadow shadowOffset in AppKit on Catalina, presumably to emulate UIKit. Sigh… why does the Mac …
Lees meerJosh Centers: I decided to spend a bit more than I had hoped and buy the LG 27UK850-W, which usually sells for $450 but was on sale for $380. Even at full price, it’s $250 cheaper than the LG UltraFine 4K display and $850 less than the LG UltraFine …
Lees meerDepartment of Justice (via Hacker News): According to the complaint, Jin served as Company-1’s primary liaison with PRC law enforcement and intelligence services. In that capacity, he regularly responded to requests from the PRC government for infor…
Lees meerFFmpeg (Hacker News): Here’s to 20 more years of open source multimedia! 🎉 Wikipedia: FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a large suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and s…
Lees meerRuby (Hacker News): Ruby 3.0 ships with rbs gem, which allows parsing and processing type definitions written in RBS.[…]Currently, TypeProf serves as a kind of type inference.It reads plain (non-type-annotated) Ruby code, analyzes what methods are d…
Lees meerThe PHP Group (Hacker News, Slashdot): PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:Union TypesNamed ArgumentsMatch ExpressionsAttributesConstructor Property PromotionNullsafe OperatorWeak MapsJust In Time CompilationAnd much mu…
Lees meerAmazon (via Tim Bray, Hacker News): Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications. Unlike other cloud providers, Amazon S3 delivers strong read-after-write consistency for any storage request, without …
Lees meerMichelle Bu (via Patrick McKenzie): It’s unlikely that a developer believed a production-ready payments integration involved literally only seven lines of code. But taking something as complex as credit card processing and reducing the integration t…
Lees meerDaisuke Wakabayashi: Google holds a significant leg up on Microsoft in more than market share. British competition authorities said Google’s index included about 500 billion to 600 billion web pages, compared with 100 billion to 200 billion for Micr…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (tweet): There’s a detailed article coming next in our series about Continuous Integration for Small iOS/macOS Teams that goes into more detail on this setup. Of course, there have been a few issues along the way to make the automa…
Lees meerTodd Spangler (also: Google, MacRumors): Google and Apple reached an agreement that will bring the Apple TV app — including the Apple TV Plus subscription service — to the newest Chromecast device. Google didn’t provide specific timing on when Apple…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple’s redesigned Maps app is now available in Canada following a test of the feature that kicked off back in October. The Canadian expansion comes 11 months after Apple finished the rollout of the revamped Maps app in the United State…
Lees meerOle Begemann: In a December 2020 video recorded for the European Data Protection & Privacy Conference, Apple’s Craig Federighi touts end-to-end-encryption for iMessage[…] Apple has been using this self-congratulatory tone about their encryption effo…
Lees meerNormally, the delta and combo updaters are available for download here within a day of the macOS update becoming available via automatic software update. There was never an updater posted for macOS 11.0.1, but I didn’t think much of it because 11.0 …
Lees meerGitHub (Hacker News): Starting today, GitHub Code Search will only index repositories that have had recent activity within the last year. Recent activity for a repository means that it has had a commit or has shown up in a search result. If the repo…
Lees meerObjective Development (tweet): There has been a lot of turmoil about Apple excluding some of their own processes from third party firewalls. This release focuses on the problem and adds an option to uncover whitelisted connections in Network Monitor…
Lees meerHank Green: On Android, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, the moment you hit backspace it changes back. On iPhone, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, and you delete it and retype it IT WILL CHANGE IT AGAIN TO T…
Lees meerRussell Brandom: In a bizarre video posted to the office’s verified Twitter account, Texas AG Ken Paxton says the company “repeatedly used its monopolistic power to control pricing” in online ads. “These actions harm every person in America,” Paxton…
Lees meerManuel Grabowski (Hacker News): In the lower half is the result after modifying (removed a blank page) and saving that same PDF in Preview. Hard to believe, but that’s not the first time Apple messed this up. Sure, even Apple can’t account for all u…
Lees meerJesper: All other things notwithstanding, revisiting Podcasts is informative. Nearly all of it seems to still hold true. Someone is awake at the switch somewhere since Cmd+L now does jump to the “show” of the current episode, but it doesn’t select t…
Lees meerTom Warren (Hacker News): Facebook is publicly criticizing Apple’s upcoming iOS privacy changes in full-page newspaper ads today. Dan Levy: Apple’s new iOS 14 policy will have a harmful impact on many small businesses that are struggling to stay afl…
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