Dylan McDonald: The Charge Limit feature, which lets you set a maximum charge to help extend battery health, was previously only available on iPhone and iPad. […] Additionally, the new iOS 26.4 and macOS 26.4 betas bring Charge Limit to the Shortcut…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: And yet. And yet. When you desperately want the digital jingle bell to sound off on a particular device, my goodness, what a fuss that might be. Quick: Without picking up your iPhone, tell me how you configure an alarm in the Clock …
Lees meerMarcin Wichary (Hacker News): Half of my education in URLs as user interface came from Flickr in the late 2000s. […] This was incredible and a breath of fresh air. No redundant www. in front or awkward .php at the end. No parameters with their unple…
Lees meerApple’s solution to this dilemma — to show the “Tap Recents to Call” in Settings if, and only if, Unified is the current view option in the Phone app — is lazy. And as a result, it’s quite confusing.
Lees meerBrent Simmons: I led the effort to port our remaining Objective-C to Swift. When I started that project, Objective-C was about 25% of the code; when I retired it was in the low single digits (and has gone even lower since, I’ve heard). […] Objective…
Lees meerRicky Mondello et al. (2025, Mastodon, Hacker News): The migration from Java to Swift was motivated by a need to scale the Password Monitoring service in a performant way. The layered encryption module used by Password Monitoring requires a signific…
Lees meerVojtěch Rylko and Werner Jainek (2025): The robustness of this work is ensured by a rigorous theoretical foundation, inspired by operational transformations and Git’s internals. After twelve years in production, Things Cloud has earned our users’ tr…
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