John Sundell (also: Hacker News): Facebook’s SDK is once again causing numerous iOS apps to crash on launch. Here are some of the GitHub issues. It seems like another case of a server change causing an unexpected JSON value to be returned. Jumhyn: T…
Lees meerJohn Sundell: In Swift 5.3, however, using self in the above kind of situation is no longer required, and we can simply access properties and methods belonging to value types (such as SwiftUI views, or any other type of struct) without any additiona…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (tweet, Hacker News): Feel free to file Google’s release this week of an update to their iPad Gmail app with support for split-screen multitasking under “better late than never”, but this is so late it borders on the absurd. […] I worry …
Lees meerMichael Roy (tweet): Big Sur brings with it some really big visual changes, but also major changes under the hood. For instance, Apple has been progressively deprecating 3rd party Kernel Extensions or “kexts” which Fusion needs to run VMs and contai…
Lees meerDavid Shayer: An Apple build number also has three parts: Major version: Within Apple, the major version is called the build train. Minor version: For iOS and its descendants, the minor version tracks with the minor release; for macOS, it tracks wit…
Lees meerRiley Testut: Clip is a clipboard manager for iOS that can run in the background indefinitely, listening for changes to the clipboard and saving your clippings for later use. Normally this would be impossible without jailbreaking, but Clip uses seve…
Lees meerJordan Morgan (tweet): What things can I quantify that help make an app great? I believe I’ve created such a list that helps answer that question. Yours might look different, but this one is mine. It attempts to takes all of the emotion and (mostly)…
Lees meerWebKit: WebKit’s first line of defense against fingerprinting is to not implement web features which increase fingerprintability and offer no safe way to protect the user. Here are some examples of features we have decided to not implement in part d…
Lees meerbmalehorn (via Hacker News, Reddit): Why can’t you update the Docker image to also support ARM? You theoretically could switch your backend to run ARM Linux. However, this would take months - renting out ARM instances, re-building all repositories, …
Lees meerJason Snell: When the Intel transition happened, Apple was extremely restrained. The first Intel Macs were more or less the existing PowerPC Macs, but with Intel processors inside. The message was clear: Steady as she goes, no need to be concerned, …
Lees meerAndrew Denty: All of the screenshots below are taken on a default install of macOS and the Catalina version is always on the left. I made a conscious effort not to resize any windows or change any default settings. I haven’t captured everything, but…
Lees meerFraunhofer HHI (via Hacker News): This new standard offers improved compression, which reduces data requirements by around 50% of the bit rate relative to the previous standard H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) without compromising visual qu…
Lees meerMacRumorsRanger: So there appears to be a widespread issue with the AirPods Pro: they seem to eventually develop a rattling noise when Noise Cancellation or Transparency is in use. It is believed to be a hardware problem at this stage and fairly wid…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Wearing the AirPods Pro doesn’t hurt, but I notice them constantly and breathe a sigh of relief every time I take them out. […] I’m torn here—the AirPods Pro have significantly more flexible controls than the AirPods, but they require mo…
Lees meerWWDC 2020: Dive into the microscopic world of low-level bits and bytes that underlie every Objective-C and Swift class. Find out how recent changes to internal data structures, method lists, and tagged pointers provide better performance and lower m…
Lees meerCsaba Fitzl (tweet): We could mount the entire file system through APFS snapshots as read-only, with the noowners flag, which enables us accessing (almost) every file in the file system, including data (documents, files, etc…) of every user on the s…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: Why do I have this huge ass screen on my Mac and am now reading alerts with four or five words in each line? Seems like a bad idea when a majority of Macs have a display with landscape orientation. Portrait makes sense on a phone,…
Lees meerDon (via Hacker News): LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard every keystroke. IOS 14 allows users to see each paste notification. I’m on an IPad Pro and it’s copying from the clipboard of my MacBook Pro. Erran Berger (VP of Engineering): …
Lees meerJuli Clover (also: Hacker News): A new feature in iOS 14 alerts users when apps read the clipboard, and it turns out some apps have been reading clipboard data excessively. TikTok users who upgraded to iOS 14, for example, quickly noticed constant a…
Lees meerMarc Edwards: SVGs can now be used as assets for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS apps. The most exciting part of this new feature is that there’s not much to say — it’s full SVG support, and it just works. Xcode 12 is required, but deployment target…
Lees meerSwift by Sundell: Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home screen widget system, Apple’s internal process of adopting and improving SwiftUI, and much …
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