Riccardo Mori: I am the first to wonder whether it makes sense to write yet another part of this little saga, when Catalina is basically entering its last two months of active duty. But Catalina remains, I think, one of the most (if not the most) co…
Lees meerFilip Pizlo: This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine. Speculative compilation is ideal for making dynamic languages, or any language with enough dynamic feat…
Lees meerFelix Rieseberg: This is Mac OS 8, running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. Yes, it's the full thing. Via Dan Moren: I fired it up to take it for a spin and it worked pretty well, though I did run into some bugs with scro…
Lees meerDavid Sparks: iCloud Drive and sharing have not failed me. On the contrary, they have worked better than I expected. […] The trouble is those instances where I am not in control. For example, I have many clients who have never heard of iCloud Drive …
Lees meerHoward Oakley (Hacker News): According to figures obtained by the BBC, of the 83 million people in Germany, only around 16 million have downloaded this app since it launched in June. That’s less than 20% of the whole population, and probably around …
Lees meerNick Heer: While the biggest tech CEOs testifying before some of the dumbest people are stymied by WebEx problems, I want to direct your attention to this Dropbox screen. Would you assume that both of these buttons are tappable? Tyler Hall: No way t…
Lees meerJuli Clover (also: 1, 2): Apple CEO Tim Cook is today participating in an antitrust hearing with the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee alongside Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. [……
Lees meerStephen Nellis (via MacRumors): But when the App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps, Apple executives viewed it as an experiment in offering a compellingly low commission rate to attract developers, Philip W. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice presiden…
Lees meerMarsEdit 4.4 now supports Micro.blog and can search the values of custom fields. However, there seems to be a regression that causes the app to beachball for 30 seconds each time I publish a post.
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet): Users of virtualization software have reported that macOS 10.15.6 crashes repeatedly when running virtual machines.A regression in the App Sandbox component of macOS 10.15.6 is reportedly leaking kernel memory, causing macO…
Lees meerSeth Barton: The rules, which you can see here in full if you’re happy to fight through them, or as discussed here by the EGDF’s Jari-Pekka Kaleva on GI.Biz, cover a wide range of ongoing issues that developers have with stores. Platforms will have …
Lees meerMonica Chin: According to the lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, crooks have been posting videos on the platform claiming that Wozniak is hosting a bitcoin promotion. They convince users that if they send bitcoin to a p…
Lees meerDave Kitabjian: Fujitsu announced it wouldn’t support Catalina well over a year ago, and many ScanSnap owners have already gone through the Five Stages of Grief and resolved to buy either a new scanner or one of the third-party software solutions I …
Lees meerVincent Bénony: Today, I’m happy to announce that Hopper will fully support macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon CPU! macOS Big Sur changes a lot of things under the hood. For instance, there is a new way of referencing Objective-C selectors in the execu…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Logitech today announced the launch of the Logitech Folio Touch, a new keyboard case with trackpad designed for the 11-inch iPad Pro models released in 2018 and 2020. It’s $160 vs. $350/$300 for the Magic Keyboard for iPad. The design i…
Lees meerRobert Triggs (via Hacker News): Moving phones between different chargers, even of the same current and voltage ratings, often won’t produce the same charging speeds. Furthermore, picking a third party USB-C cable to replace the often all too short …
Lees meerBrian Krebs: One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Admini…
Lees meerCraig Silverman (tweet, also: Nick Heer): Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps for Android and iOS…
Lees meerChris Parnin and Matt Shipman (via Hacker News, 2, 3): A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate h…
Lees meerSwift by Sundell (tweet, Reddit): Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong emphasis on val…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Slashdot, Hacker News): As Apple CEO Tim Cook gears up to testify in an App Store antitrust hearing before the House Judiciary Committee next week, Apple has commissioned a study from Analysis Group [PDF] that’s designed to demonstrate …
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