UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Models

Jesper: View models and functional UI look like solutions, and they are indeed effective ways of managing complexity by making all the constituent state visible and enumerated. But in my experience they also encourage a way of programming where you …

Blackbird: a Reference Architecture for Local-First Connected Mobile Apps

Marcel Weiher (tweet, Hacker News): Blackbird depends crucially on a number of architectural elements: first are stores of the in-process REST architectural style. These can be thought of as in-process HTTP servers (without the HTTP, of course) or c…

Model View Controller Store: Reinventing MVC for SwiftUI With Boutique

Joe Fabisevich (tweet): Apple has never provided a blessed architecture for SwiftUI, and many developers have spent thousands of hours filling the gaps with their own ideas. A familiar approach for many developers is to take the MVVM pattern many pe…

Lockdown Mode

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today detailed two initiatives to help protect users who may be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats, such as those from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary sp…

EU Approves Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act

Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): European Union lawmakers have approved landmark legislation to heavily regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other big tech firms.[…]Under the DMA, gatekeepers may have to:Allow users to install apps from third-party app …

Slow Mac Disk Image Writing

Howard Oakley: While reading from each of the Disk Images was almost as fast as from the SSD, write speeds were severely reduced. The sparse bundle was least impaired, with a write speed just under half that of the SSD, but all three disk images wro…

New MacBook Air With M2 Available to Order Starting This Friday

Chasing Tail With Dr. Drang

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Chasing Tail

AppleScript Broken in macOS 12.5 Beta 5

Luc Beaudoin brought to my attention that there is a serious bug in the current Monterey beta. So far it’s affected every app I’ve tried that uses AppleScript. The script will fail with error -609 (connectionInvalid). Sometimes the script succeeds t…

M2 Mac Thermal Concerns

Vadim Yuryev (video): We discovered SEVERE thermal throttling with Apple’s new M2 MacBook Pro, proving that it needs a BETTER cooling system with two fans instead of one. We exported 8K Canon RAW and saw temps hit 108°C, more than we’ve ever seen on…

The Power of SwiftUI “task” View Modifier

Majid Jabrayilov: The task view modifier starts the unstructured async task and binds it to the view lifecycle. SwiftUI automatically cancels ongoing tasks whenever the view disappears by propagating cooperative cancellation. […] Another variant of …

PACMAN Attack on M1 Processor

Carly Page (Hacker News, paper): The attack, appropriately called “Pacman,” works by “guessing” a pointer authentication code (PAC), a cryptographic signature that confirms that an app hasn’t been maliciously altered. This is done using speculative …

Pruning iOS “System Data”

frownface84: Phone had about 6gb of free space yesterday and was out of space when I woke up this morning. What’s this 10gb worth of system data? AwsomeOHdog: Why would “System Data” be using almost 40 GB of storage? Mizikame (via Meek Geek): Erase …

Apple Maps Location Scan Slows Down Wi-Fi

Ben Kuhn: I just did another round of “what’s making my Zoom calls stutter every 60s” and this time the culprit was… APPLE #!*$ING MAPS. That’s right, Macs now come preloaded with software to ruin wifi latency :(You can fix by revoking Maps’ locatio…

TikTok Shops Are Lousy With Counterfeit Products

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TechFan 476 – Atari at 50

Tim and David talk about 50 years of Atari, Apple AirPods, Power UP at the Science and Industry Museum, bug zappers, and Stage Manager on the iPad

Let’s Talk Apple 106: June 2022

This month Bart is joined by Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast & Adam Christianson of the MacCast. The show starts with the usual followups