Craig Mod: Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance. Fastness in software is l…
Lees meerFrank Reiff: Unlike sandboxing, notarization should not have any detrimental effects for most Mac apps. As always the real trouble starts when you are trying to inject Notarization into the tangled web of modern Mac software development: entitlement…
Lees meerEquifax Data Breach Settlement (via Hacker News): In September of 2017, Equifax announced it experienced a data breach, which impacted the personal information of approximately 147 million people. A federal court is considering a proposed class acti…
Lees meerAlex Kantrowitz (Hacker News): After the retweet button debuted, Wetherell was struck by how effectively it spread information. “It did a lot of what it was designed to do,” he said. “It had a force multiplier that other things didn’t have.” “We wou…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Those of us who work fairly constantly in Dark Mode have come to understand that white is black and the reverse when working with text, but we continue to rely on colour. Any image editor which inverted its colours or their lightness …
Lees meerRyan Govostes: Home.app takes 360 MB to store a cache of background gradient images in various colors. I guess that’s why there won’t be room for scripting languages. But, seriously, I wonder why they can’t be generated on-the-fly.
Lees meerJuli Clover: Lockdown, a new app launching today, is designed to be an open source firewall, letting users block any connection to any domain, including those that use ad tracking services and analytics platforms to monitor device usage. Lockdown is…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as “going dark.” Speaking at Fordham University in New York, he admitted that adding backdoors decreases security but that it…
Lees meerGoogle (via Hacker News): We’re here to help: we open sourced the C++ library that our production systems use for parsing and matching rules in robots.txt files. This library has been around for 20 years and it contains pieces of code that were writ…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you work with xattrs, you’ve probably already seen this in xattrs whose name ends with a hash # then one or more characters: that’s actually the flags, not part of the name, what Apple refers to as a ‘property list’. To avoid confu…
Lees meerDave Verwer: I’d be much, much happier with the weird situation where one part of the system says it’s full, while another says there is 5Gb free if I was constantly being shown error messages. In that case, it’d just be a bug with the amount of spa…
Lees meerJason Snell: After 24 hours of trying to use Catalina in earnest with all my data and apps intact, the new security features are incredibly annoying. Apps constantly asking for permission to see various folders, lots of relaunches and trips to Syste…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: As for the $10,000-plus, 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, the report claims Apple’s sales were “in the low tens of thousands” of units, with “few after the first two weeks.” The line was discontinued in September 2016 after just 16 …
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple received a total of 80 requests from 11 countries to remove 634 apps from various App Stores in different countries. While Apple did not provide specific details on which apps it was asked to pull, requests from Chin…
Lees meerAdafruit: Andy Hertzfeld has a YouTube channel and it’s great. There’s a bunch of Mac and Magic Cap history stuff that I hadn’t seen before. Previously: Revolution in the Valley Macintosh Folklore
Lees meerThe macOS 10.14.6 Combo update is now available. Xcode 10.3 is in the Mac App Store, but it’s not yet available for direct download. In fact, the download page is currently directing me to check the system status, which of course shows all green. Up…
Lees meerMargaret Hamilton (via Hacker News): There were two onboard computers – one on the command module, Columbia, and one on the lunar module, Eagle. Our task included developing the software to run on each and the systems software they shared. At the be…
Lees meerJake Edge (via Hacker News): Out of that came a new operator, however, that is often called the “walrus operator” due to its visual appearance. Using “:=“ in an if or while statement allows assigning a value to a variable while testing it.[…]The f-s…
Lees meerBrian X. Chen: Ultimately, the technology did not help me sleep more. It didn’t reveal anything that I didn’t already know, which is that I average about five and a half hours of slumber a night. And the data did not help me answer what I should do …
Lees meerJames Thomson: The video of my talk “An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs” is up. This was a lot of fun to put together! Lots of fun stuff here, from Atari, to the Finder, and later PCalc.
Lees meerNick Heer: Jennifer Miller of the New York Times wrote about the eruption of podcasting popularity — a seemingly evergreen topic. Nieman Lab wondered in 2017 if we had hit “peak podcast”, while Wired thought the same in 2015. Podcasts were “back” in…
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