Adam Engst: Apple Pay’s tokenization process prevents Stripe, our payment processor, from knowing the expiration date for the actual card. Instead, Stripe—and the Paid Memberships Pro plug-in that we use to manage TidBITS accounts—displays a seeming…
Lees meerSimon Peyton Jones (via Ian Kettlewell, Hacker News, slides): Since joining Epic Games in late 2021, I have been involved in the design and development of Verse, a new, declarative programming language that Epic plans to use as the language of the m…
Lees meerOver the last month or two I’ve made several improvements to this blog: The CSS now adapts the colors for Dark Mode. I’ve adjusted the WordPress caching so that pages should load much faster. No matter what I did, I kept running into an issue where …
Lees meerTony Parker (tweet): The swift-corelibs-foundation project helped launch the open source Swift version of Foundation in 2016, wrapping a Swift layer around the preexisting, open source C implementation of Foundation. […] Today, we are announcing a n…
Lees meerMTW (via Ryan Jones): ✨ Introducing Background Tool in Annotate - easily create beautiful social media posts that stand out from others 🎨 Crop Tool will now recognize background color - automatically detects background color when you expand the canv…
Lees meerFederal Trade Commission (via Hacker News): The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block technology giant Microsoft Corp. from acquiring leading video game developer Activision Blizzard, Inc. and its blockbuster gaming franchises such as Call of…
Lees meerStar Trek Voyager kicks off the show, then Tim and David discuss Stargate, Black Adam, Drones, and the changes within DC Universe
Lees meerMozilla (via Hacker News): Firefox Translations provides automated translation of web content. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally, on the client-side, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Previousl…
Lees meerSam Rowlands: Have you ever travelled somewhere to find that your MacBook is nice and warm, with next to no battery left? If so, these are the common causes of a “Hot Bag MacBook” that we’ve found so far. His Sleep Aid app can also help determine wh…
Lees meerUnsplash: We are excited to announce the launch of Unsplash+. An Unsplash+ subscription gives you access to curated content that is royalty-free and available for commercial use. Members will get access to a constantly growing library of premium vi…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today introduced three advanced security features focused on protecting against threats to user data in the cloud, representing the next step in its ongoing effort to provide users with even stronger ways to pro…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apple introduced two-factor authentication for Apple ID in 2015. Today, with more than 95 percent of active iCloud accounts using this protection, it is the most widely used two-factor account security system in the world that we’…
Lees meerApple (via MacRumors): After extensive consultation with experts to gather feedback on child protection initiatives we proposed last year, we are deepening our investment in the Communication Safety feature that we first made available in December 2…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): MarsEdit 5 features a beautiful new icon, a “Microposting” feature for streamlined short-form blogging, enhanced plain-text editing with built-in Markdown syntax highlighting, a completely rebuilt rich text editor based on App…
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