John Brayton: Even though Safari, Mail, and Finder implement search suggestion menus, there is no standard AppKit mechanism for providing them in AppKit. Popping up an NSMenu does not work because the search field cannot receive keystrokes while the…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: [The] functions os_log and NSLog now log nil as an empty string. The previous behavior, going back forever as far as I remember, was to log nil as (null).[…]I don’t know whether this is a bug or intended behavior, but it makes debuggin…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Amazon launched an official Kindle app for macOS more than eight years ago, allowing Mac users to download and read their ebooks from Amazon’s platform on their computer. […] On Tuesday, the official Kindle app available on the Mac …
Lees meerXe Iaso (via Hacker News): Cursorless is a plugin that integrates with voice control software to let you do AST level code editing with your voice. This is crazy alien magic from the future. […] The most magic parts about this are the ideas of desti…
Lees meerAlastair Houghton: Prior to Swift 5.9, all you would get when your program fails is a message from the parent process (often the shell) telling you that the child process crashed[…] […] Now, instead of the opaque message above, the result looks some…
Lees meerNick Heer: I was reminded of Nikita Prokopov’s classic post today — “People Expect Technology to Suck Because It Actually Sucks” — in much the same way I think of it many days but, and especially, today. These are all things which happened today fro…
Lees meerDan Taylor (via Hacker News): Today, website owners use a combination of direct sales, ad networks and sell-side platforms to sell their ad space, often using multiple technologies simultaneously. This is why we are making two changes: updating AdSe…
Lees meerJason Snell (Reddit, Hacker News): Due to an extremely weird series of troubleshooting maneuvers, I recently found myself having to set my Mac up from scratch without migrating any of my preferences for the first time in longer than I’d like to admi…
Lees meerApple: Final Cut Pro now includes improvements in timeline navigation and organization, as well as new ways to simplify complex edits. The apps leverage the power-efficient performance of Apple silicon along with an all-new machine learning model fo…
Lees meerTripp Mickle, Ella Koeze, and Brian X. Chen (via Hacker News): Unlike cars, which can be repaired with generic parts by auto shops and do-it-yourself mechanics, new iPhones are coded to recognize the serial numbers for original components and may ma…
Lees meerVictoria Song: Fitbit is back with the Charge 6 — and on paper, this one feels like the most Fitbit-y Fitbit since Google actively began folding the company into its ecosystem. Not only has the price been lowered from $179.95 to $159.95 but the devi…
Lees meerThere is practically no real Apple things to talk about that we haven’t already covered to the point of a coma, so let’s jump
Lees meerTim and David talk about Music Libraries, a little on the M3 Mac’s, OLED Steam Deck, cloud garage door openers, and stupidity from T-Mobile.
Lees meerHands-on experience capturing spatial video using an iPhone, and watching it using a Vision Pro.
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