Benjamin Mayo: Apple has recently updated its App Store Preview pages for stories to allow users to view the full content of stories from inside their desktop web browser. App Store stories have always been shareable as links, but the web version wa…
Lees meerDave Winer: There’s a consensus that porting the [LinuxJournal site] to archive.org is the answer. Jon Udell, a highly respected developer says on Twitter that redirecting to archive.org, as Doug Kaye does, is the “gold standard” for preserving site…
Lees meerSebastian Benz (Hacker News): AMP now officially supports a technique called server-side rendering (SSR) which you can apply to your AMP pages to make them load even faster. Our tests show increases of up to a whopping 50% on the popular FCP metric.…
Lees meerEyal Guthmann (Hacker News): Until very recently, Dropbox had a technical strategy on mobile of sharing code between iOS and Android via C++. The idea behind this strategy was simple—write the code once in C++ instead of twice in Java and Objective …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: There are settings for a great many features in Mojave, and the common problem is discovering where any given setting is, and how to control it. Some are exposed in the GUI, others are hidden away from easy access. This article concen…
Lees meerSebastian Aaltonen (thread reader): Now that people have already said highly controversial stuff like ”debugger is useless for C++ development”, I think I can share my own controversial thoughts about unit testing, DRY, copy-paste coding and functio…
Lees meerSarah Frier: Facebook Inc. has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according to people with knowledge of the work. The work has rattled the contract employees, who are not told where t…
Lees meerStairways Software (tweet): Keyboard Maestro 9 expands on the powerful base of previous versions, adding Dark Mode, multiple editor windows, and support for OCR and JSON, together with lots of new actions and additions. Interesting idea to apply OCR…
Lees meerMitchel Broussard: Twelve South today launched the “PowerPic,” a traditional wooden picture frame that includes a hidden, 10W wireless charger. You can place any 5" x 7" photo in the PowerPic, and then to charge an iPhone 8, 8 Plus, X, XS, XS Max, o…
Lees meerFreddie Temperton (via Jon Masters): One thing we noticed when playing with the AirPods is that your phone knows the charge state of the AirPods individually, as well as the case itself. How were they doing this? Our interest was piqued! We also not…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger: Transitioning an app to subscription is always an adventure - even if you don’t take features away, people give you 💩 Twitterrific: Even if you ADD a ton of features. Pádraig Kennedy: fwiw we were shocked that we barely had any of…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: APFS limits the number of volumes which can exist within each container. The absolute maximum is 100, which is hardly likely to be reached unless you’re doing very peculiar things. However, there’s a smaller limit which is more likely…
Lees meerLawrence Abrams: With the release of Chrome 76, Google fixed a loophole that allowed web sites to detect if a visitor was using Incognito mode. Unfortunately, their fix led to two other methods that can still be used to detect when a visitor is bro…
Lees meerqnoid: For the past few months, I have been working on Windmill 3.0 which enables Windmill on the Mac to publish your iOS app. Effectively, every time you make a code change, Windmill will also publish your app so that you can install it on your iPh…
Lees meerGitHub (tweet, Hacker News): GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way…
Lees meerJason Koebler (tweet): A longtime nightmare scenario for independent iPhone repair companies has come true: Apple has tied batteries to specific iPhones, meaning that only it has the ability to perform an authorized battery replacement on the newest…
Lees meerMike Davidson: First, let’s dispense with the easy part: despite what you may read on Twitter, remote work is neither the greatest thing in the world nor the worst. We are not moving to a world where offices go completely away, nor are we going thro…
Lees meerpeterbourgon: what are some of the worst/leakiest abstractions we’re currently dealing with in computers these days? maybe things like: posix threads? the upper layers of the OSI model? the notion of a secure boot loader? OOP in general? There are t…
Lees meerAaron Tilley (Hacker News): Right now, the calling feature in these apps runs in the background even when it’s not in use, ensuring the apps can connect calls faster but also making it possible for them to perform other, unrelated tasks such as coll…
Lees meerJuli Clover: In a support document on how the Apple Card works, Apple says exporting data from Apple Card is not a feature offered at this time. From the document: “Exporting data from Apple Card to a financial app like Mint is not currently support…
Lees meerChris Espinosa: Thing 1 I have learned about AT&T Wireless data plan usage download: You can download you usage for Excel, and it downloads as an .xls file—but it’s XML, not BIFF. Thing 2 I have learned about AT&T Wireless data plan usage download: …
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