How to Stop macOS Upgrade Notifications

Jeff Johnson: Instead, you get harassed by frequent notifications imploring you to “Upgrade to macOS Sonoma”, notifications that won’t take no for an answer. They don’t even have no for an answer! And if you click the wrong thing, you’ll accidentall…

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CGPDFService

Howard Oakley: CGPDFService turns out to be quite a small background XPC process inside the CoreGraphics framework, located on the System volume (SSV) in the path /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/CGPDFService.…

Inside Code Signing: Certificates

TN3161 (via Quinn): To condense this into plain English, this certificate says that “Apple certifies that this developer is associated with this public key, and the matching private key can be used to sign Mac code.” This is clearly a simplification…

Bluesky Opens to the Public

Bluesky (Hacker News): Bluesky is building an open social network where anyone can contribute, while still providing an easy-to-use experience for users. For the past year, we used invite codes to help us manage growth while we built features like m…

Flickr and Facebook at 20

Flickr: To celebrate this huge milestone, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to explore all of the technological and structural moments that have shaped Flickr into what it is now. Mark Zuckerberg: 20 years ago I launched a thing. Along the way, l…

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ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Announce Super-Sports Streaming Bundle

Swift Tricks

André Jorgensen: Generic typealias can be used to simplify param types etctypealias Parser = (String) -> [(A, String)] […] func parse(stringToParse: String, parser: Parser) […] Finding Elements of Specific Type in Swift extension Array { func whereT…

Pkl Programming Language

Apple (via Hacker News): We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. […] We created Pkl because we think that configuration is best expressed as a blend b…

Teatotaller Cafe v. Instagram

Annie Ropeik (2020): The owner of the Teatotaller café in Somersworth is taking on Facebook at the New Hampshire Supreme Court.[…]Owner Emmett Soldati markets them all on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. He says it was a blow to his business w…

Ruling in Vizio Lawsuit May Strengthen the GPL

Luis Villa (via Hacker News): In October of 2021 the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) decided to launch what is believed to be the first significant open source lawsuit based in contract rather than in copyright. Critically, the SFC’s case argued …

T? and Optional Are Not the Same in Swift

Nick Lockwood: I once again got bitten by the fact that T? properties in a Swift struct become optional parameters in the synthesized initializer, making it easy to accidentally omit a property that you meant to set. The workaround is either to use …

Tom Dowdy and SimpleText

Mike Piontek: I was looking at this [SimpleText document] icon for inspiration and now I’m wondering what the name of the newspaper is meant to be. pnop? 🤔 I like that the front page photo is a screenshot of a desktop. John Calhoun (via Cabel Sasser…

The Origin of Comic Sans

Thomas Steeles (via Jason Kottke): [Most] people know of the font. By that notion, Vincent Connare, the creator of Comic Sans, has exclaimed that “I made the best font in the world.” Whether you believe that or not, it doesn’t exclude the fact it wa…

Joe Rogan No Longer Exclusive to Spotify

Ashley Carman (2021, Hacker News): Spotify hoped he would bring much of that audience along with him when he signed exclusively to the platform in 2020 in a reported $100 million deal, giving it the reach and power needed to take over the podcasting…

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