Darby Huye et al. (PDF, via Hacker News): We present a top-down analysis of Meta’s microservice architecture, starting from its service-level topology and descending into individual request workflows. (Request workflows describe the order and timing…
Lees meerJonathan Corbet (2021, Serdar Yegulalp, Hacker News): Concerns over the performance of programs written in Python are often overstated — for some use cases, at least. But there is no getting around the problem imposed by the infamous global interpre…
Lees meerHau Tran (via Hacker News): Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone. The demo is impressive compared with other such services that I’ve used. And there’s an iOS app that can auto-upload new photos. Previously: Pog…
Lees meerKevin Purdy (Hacker News): Most of the changes on the Sega Retro wiki every day are tiny things, like single-line tweaks to game details or image swaps. Early Monday morning, the site got something else: A 47MB, 272-page PDF full of confidential ema…
Lees meerTwo ways to automatically relaunch an app that’s crashing in the background.
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Lees meerJesse Squires: Beginning with the introduction of dark mode in iOS 13, colors in iOS are now (optionally) dynamic. You can provide light and dark variants for all colors in your app. However, I was surprised to find that SwiftUI — which also made it…
Lees meerJon Yablonski (via Hacker News): Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces. […] The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target. […] The time it takes …
Lees meerMatt Massicotte: ExtensionKit is a pretty significant new feature of macOS Ventura. But, I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t know, as it had a conspicuously quiet introduction. There were no sessions or labs about it during WWDC 2022. I only disco…
Lees meerStephen Hackett: An anonymous 512 Pixels reader recently mailed me something amazing — a promotional mailer for eWorld, dating back to 1994. In the package was a set of 3.5-inch eWorld 1.0 installer disks, the “Apple Online Service Subscriber Agreem…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Chronicling is a brand-new event tracking app for iOS and iPadOS by Rebecca Owen. The App Store is full of apps for tracking everything from the very specific, like caffeine consumption, to apps like Chronicling that can be used to tr…
Lees meerPlatforms State of the Union: But some APIs can be hard to use, requiring you to write a lot of boilerplate code just to get started. That’s why Swift is unlocking a new kind of API that’s easier to use and easier to get right with the introduction …
Lees meerGabriela Galindo (via Hacker News): The Fruit Union Suisse is 111 years old. For most of its history, it has had as its symbol a red apple with a white cross—the Swiss national flag superimposed on one of its most common fruits. But the group, the o…
Lees meerDavid Pierce: In this case, it turns out, the outrageous length is the whole appeal. Across all these videos and many other silent blank ones, every viewer seems to have their own use case. The most common, by far, is to use these videos as a way to…
Lees meerThis week Simon and Nick get back together to talk about a variety of stories that for a change aren’t all “sources familiar with
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