SKIP.tools (via Abe White, Hacker News): Skip brings Swift app development to Android. Share Swift business logic, or write entire cross-platform apps in SwiftUI. Skip is the only tool that enables you to develop genuinely native apps for both major…
Lees meerDouglas Hill (tweet): Over the weekend, I updated KeyboardKit to full data race safety with Swift 6 language mode. KeyboardKit is my open source framework that‘s the easiest way to add comprehensive hardware keyboard control to an iPad, iPhone, or M…
Lees meerBrandon Vigliarolo (Hacker News): Marlinspike opened the second day of Black Hat with a talk that was ostensibly supposed to be a fireside chat with Black Hat founder Jeff Moss, but the Signal founder stole the show with an opening chat laying out a…
Lees meerHansen Hsu (2017, via David Kopec): Had Steve Jobs’ first company not bought his second, history likely would have been very different. Apple might not exist today. No iPhone. But what could have happened to NeXT? Former NeXT software leader and the…
Lees meerReal Engineering (via John Gruber): The original Gameboy was launched in 1989 and was received with mixed reviews. While its success is ingrained in our cultural memory now, when it was launched it was a technologically inferior product. The Gameboy…
Lees meerNadeem Badshah and Reuters (Hacker News): Pavel Durov, billionaire co-founder and chief executive of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV said, citing an unnamed source. […] Telegr…
Lees meerDan Moren: But even against this backdrop, CarPlay increasingly found itself squeezed by a variety of factors: automobile manufacturers who didn’t want to cede control to an outside force, internal Apple forces focusing on the nascent car project, a…
Lees meerFatbobman (Reddit): In SwiftData’s default storage implementation, the method of persisting the people attribute is not by converting data into binary format through encoders such as JSONEncoder and storing it in a single field (similar to Core Data…
Lees meerMichael Crider (Hacker News): A change in Chrome’s extension support — from the Manifest V2 framework to the newer V3 — is being billed as a way to make browser add-ons safer, more efficient, and compliant with modern APIs. But it’s also deprecating…
Lees meerAdam Engst: However, the real win in centralizing newsreading in email has come from RSS-to-email services. I’ve tried numerous RSS readers over the years but have never settled down with one because they require me to devote specific time to readin…
Lees meerMatthew Ball (Hacker News): The Vision Pro is arguably the highest-profile and most important device debuted by Apple since the iPhone in January 2007. The company spent more time (eight years versus the iPhone’s three) and money (see point #2) deve…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today announced the launch of a Podcasts on the web feature, which works in Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on Macs, PCs, and other devices. Podcasts on the web allows users to search for, browse through, and listen to podcasts …
Lees meerHartley Charlton: A Reddit user discovered the pre-prompt instructions embedded in Apple’s developer beta for macOS 15.1, offering a rare glimpse into the backend of Apple’s AI features. They provide specific guidelines for various Apple Intelligenc…
Lees meerApple: Developers of browsers offered in the browser choice screen in the EU will have additional information about their browser shown to users who view the choice screen, and will get access to more data about the performance of the choice screen.…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News, ArsTechnica, 9to5Mac): App Store vice president Matt Fischer is set to leave the company as Apple prepares for an App Store reorganization to deal with regulatory changes, reports Bloomberg.Apple plans to split its App Stor…
Lees meerJuli Clover: There is a new character bug that can result in a respring on the iPhone or iPad, reports TechCrunch. Typing "":: in the search field after swiping over to the App Library will cause the Springboard to reset, dropping you back at the iP…
Lees meerACCESSWIRE (via Hammer): Liberated Syndication Inc. (“Libsyn”), the leading podcasting platform for creators and advertisers, announced it has signed an agreement to sell Pair Networks, its website hosting platform, to Your.Online, the online servic…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees (Mastodon): Yesterday, during Gamescom’s opening night ceremonies, Netflix Games released a trailer for Monument Valley 3. The franchise’s sequel from Ustwo Games, which has been in development for five years, will be published exclusi…
Lees meerMany Tricks (release notes, tweet): Moom 4 has a completely revamped user interface designed to help you get the most out of Moom. Gone is the multi-tabbed non-resizable window, replaced with this new resizable window. […] The pop-up palette is both…
Lees meerJacob Bartlett: While I recognise many of these words, I frankly didn’t know what most of these actually do. I don’t even know what these things are called.It turns out the term is “type attributes”. […] Today, we’re going to work together to unders…
Lees meerAnders Borum (via Miguel Arroz): Patreon being forced to pay creators through in-app purchase reminded me of a cool app I made two summers ago.VPN clients on iOS lie on a spectrum between selling you out to data brokers or being expensive subscripti…
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