Howard Oakley: When privacy settings are playing up, and you get prompted to allow access that you have already agreed to, or access fails when it should have worked, there’s little you can do about it. Once you’ve fiddled with Privacy & Security se…
Lees meerTransmission (Hacker News, Mac Rumors): This is a major release, both in numbering and in effort! It’s been in active development for over a year and has a huge list of changes -- over a thousand commits -- since Transmission 3.00.[…]The code has be…
Lees meerChris Hanson: While Lisa appears to have an underlying procedural API similar to that of the Macintosh Toolbox, the Office System applications were primarily written in the Clascal language—an object-oriented dialect of Pascal designed by Apple with…
Lees meerJason Snell (Hacker News): Coming off the high of the release of Apple Silicon, the Mac has slid back for two consecutive years. There was plenty of praise for the M2 MacBook Air, but the delay to the M2 Mac mini and MacBook Pro—which didn’t get ann…
Lees meerSE-0385 (discussion): In Swift, declarations are annotated with attributes to opt into both built-in language features (e.g. @available) and library functionality (e.g. @RegexComponentBuilder). This proposal introduces the ability to attach library-…
Lees meerTower: Working Copy and Branches Review: On macOS 13, the width of the middle pane in the Working Copy and Branches Review sections always reset themselves to the default after leaving the view. This has been annoying me every day since Ventura was …
Lees meerApple: Starting January 18, 2023, the App Store receipt signing certificate will use a new WWDR intermediate certificate. The existing intermediate certificate expires on February 7, 2023. In most cases, this certificate change won’t require changes…
Lees meerDustin Shahidehpour: After years of iteration, the Facebook codebase does not resemble a typical iOS codebase:It’s full of C++, Objective-C(++), and Swift.It has dozens of dynamically loaded libraries (dylibs), and so many classes that they can’t be…
Lees meerMark Alldritt (Mastodon): MastodonLib is a library that allows you to query Mastodon timelines and post to a Mastodon account from AppleScript. This library is far from a complete implementation of the Mastodon API. Previously: LaunchBar Actions for…
Lees meerSteve Klabnik: you: “c is nice because there’s no hidden costs, you see every malloc and free, and know that the standard library doesn’t do shenanigans behind your back” Steve Troughton-Smith: libc does what 😟 Apparently I forgot to link to this ba…
Lees meerMatt Birchler (Mastodon): I think Apple should add touch to Macs, and I think that this will allow them to not only make current form factors better, but it will allow them to create Macs that are more flexible, more powerful, and more accessible th…
Lees meerLouie Mantia (via John Gruber): As part of this same release, I also redrew iTunes controls, like the playback buttons, LCD, and volume slider. I suggested making the “stoplight” window controls vertical, to eliminate the titlebar since that entire …
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