Ibrahim Diallo (via Hacker News): A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes up to 20 minutes…
Lees meerMatthew Bickham (Hacker News): Once upon a time, developing for Apple was an exciting, rewarding challenge. Apple built world-class hardware and software, and developers created incredible apps that made those devices indispensable. It was a win-win…
Lees meerIan Hickson (2023, via Hacker News): I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior engineer all the way to the C-suite, were genuinely good pe…
Lees meerChris McGee: Today we’re delighted to introduce the first stable release of swiftly, a Swift version manager that takes the pain out of installing, managing and updating your Swift toolchain.The latest version of Swift is bundled with Xcode for writ…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: [The ksdiff] command (called ksp in earlier versions) captures the output from any LLDB command and sends it to Kaleidoscope. Key features include:Designed for repeated use to compare debugger output over timeAutomatically groups r…
Lees meerDave DeLong: In the past 24 hours I’ve heard of four different developers who have been entirely locked out of their Apple Developer accounts for seemingly no reason whatsoever, with no help from support and no apparent way to escalate.No idea what’…
Lees meerCory Dransfeldt (via Paweł Grzybek, Hacker News): They range from mediocre to outright unusable and none of them are reliable. I’ve written about Apple Music. That one launched and cost me a phone battery. Duplicate tracks, halting playback and heat…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: In Apple’s iOS 18.4 software update, there’s a new Ambient Music feature available in the Control Center options on iPhone. It’s free to use, and does not require an Apple Music subscription. It’s also more customizable than most users…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today updated its iWork apps Keynote, Numbers, and Pages with new features that require iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, or macOS 15.4.For example, in the latest version of each app, you can now make text edits using Writing Tools directl…
Lees meerBruce Schneier (March 31, Hacker News): “I didn’t see this loser in the group,” Waltz told Fox News about Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Waltz invited to the chat. “Whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technic…
Lees meerThe erratic, illogical, nonsensical nature of Trump’s tariffs is bad for everyone. (Understatement.) But it’s particularly troublesome for a company that sees retail price stability as part of the branding for its products.
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