John Gruber: My biggest problem is that I wrote this review last year. I re-read my review of last year’s iPhones XS (regular and Max) and at almost every single paragraph I found myself wanting to say the exact same thing again this year. Not that …
Lees meerMattt Thompson (tweet via Cédric Luthi): iOS 13 changes the format of descriptions for Foundation objects, including NSData: // iOS 12 (deviceToken as NSData).description // "" // iOS 13 (deviceToken as NSData).description // "{length = 32, bytes = …
Lees meerOwen Williams (tweet): But when software used by millions of people is maintained by a community of people, or a single person, all on a volunteer basis, sometimes things can go horribly wrong. The catastrophic Heartbleed bug of 2014, which compromi…
Lees meerMatthew Panzarino: The changes announced at Apple’s developer conference in the summer were significant, and raised concerns among developers that the rules could handicap their ability to do business in a universe that, frankly, offers tough altern…
Lees meerJustin Schuh: First, large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting. With fingerprinting, developers have found ways to use tiny bits of information that vary between users, such as…
Lees meerDaniel Martín: Tip: If you use the rename refactoring in Xcode a lot, you can save some time by skipping the code folding animation: defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode CodeFoldingAnimationSpeed -int 0 I’ve tended to do it manually with Find/Replace, …
Lees meerOliver Haslam: Have you ever wondered where your Mac’s macOS wallpaper was taken? Sure, we know roughly where, but do you want to know exactly where those iconic shots were captured? YouTuber Andrew Levitt apparently did. So he set about tracking do…
Lees meerAllan Odgaard (via David Heinemeier Hansson, Hacker News): After far too long, there is no longer any qualifier suffix in the version string, so it is now finally just “TextMate 2.0”[…] Not everything on the wishlist made it into 2.0, but TextMate r…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): The steps for automating notarization involve running the “altool” command from Terminal. Everything in the guide linked above should work perfectly unless you’re a member of more than one development team. If you have more th…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: We’re not informed about when these updates occur, nor of their purpose, nor do we know what changes they bring. In the past, Apple’s security tools used to refer to malware using names which, although not always the best-known, at le…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger: Firebase Crashlytics installs its own font? Crashlytics: Crashlytics will only install the font for users who have registered to install pre-release apps via the Beta by Crashlytics product. The font includes a unique identifier t…
Lees meerChris Campbell: Given that the App Center team was already very familiar with PLCrashReporter, and that they had expressed interest in contributing their changes upstream, it seemed like a natural fit for Microsoft to take over as stewards of PLCras…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today announced a new billing grace period for subscriptions, which will let subscribers who experience unsuccessful auto-renewals continue to use an app’s paid content while Apple attempts to collect payment. This is a feature th…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: Last year, Apple rolled out the option to pay monthly for some of its two (in some cases three) year AppleCare+ plans for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Today, Apple quietly changed how it works so customers can buy an indefinite mon…
Lees meerNick Statt: One of the understated components of Apple’s iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro is the new U1 chip. It didn’t get a prominent callout onstage at today’s announcement event, but it will underpin what Apple says are “amazing new capabilities” com…
Lees meerReed Albergotti: Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that uses or incorporates their ideas. Some apps have simply buckled under the pressure, in some cases shutt…
Lees meerMr. Macintosh (tweet): This article will go over how to restore BridgeOS on your T2 Mac. This is not something that you will ever normally have to do. Restoring or reinstalling BridgeOS would only be needed in the following situations. 1. Failed mac…
Lees meerOvid (via Hacker News): By now, many of you have seen the Perl 6 Github issue “Perl” in the name “Perl 6" is confusing and irritating. The issue suggested renaming Perl 6. While some may think that the name of the issue is trolling, or offensive, th…
Lees meerPython Software Foundation (Hacker News): We have decided that January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrad…
Lees meerPanic: Amazon e-mailed to tell us that Transmit 5 can no longer support Amazon Drive. Our sincere apologies to anyone using Transmit to access that service. As a heads up, we’ll be removing it very soon — most likely in Transmit 5.6.1.(We’d have sai…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Apple announced a lot of dates today. Here’s a rundown of all the dates mentioned in the keynote[…] Federico Viticci: iOS/iPadOS 13 features coming “later this fall” (not Sept. 30th) - AirPods audio sharing - HomeKit Secure Video & ro…
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