Zoe Schiffer: While Apple’s corporate offices take a proactive, deliberate approach to product development, Apple’s customer support function operates in a reactive mania, using a vast array of processes and metrics to keep employees on task. If wor…
Lees meerRoblox (via Hacker News): Luau (lowercase u, /ˈlu.aʊ/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.It is designed to be backwards compatible with Lua 5.1, as well as incorporating some features from future …
Lees meerHamish Sanderson: Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57. Shriram Krishnamurthi: Much of 1990s OOP was defined by his seminal papers. When he …
Lees meerTaras Glek: Unfortunately reading files started from ending precludes readahead. It is also suboptimal to read files from zip in random order. The following creative interpretation of Zip spec results in optimized zip files[…] […] Thus we have a seq…
Lees meerRob Mayoff: In case you’re looking for a Thunderbolt 4 dock for your new MacBook Pro, here’s the list I made when I was shopping for one. I bought with the Kensington. It’s fine but the OWC is what I’d buy now (it’s $50 less for the same ports but w…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: To streamline the process, I turned, of course, to Shortcuts itself. In total, I’ve created four shortcuts to help me deploy my favorite shortcuts across macOS:Script Builder: Generates .scpt files that can be incorporated in other ap…
Lees meerI recently purchased a new television sold by LG, the C1 model. The quality of this television is unlike anything that I've ever seen before, and it is a perfect companion to my Apple TV 4K, iPhone, and iPad. For...
Lees meerHoward Oakley: These appear to be part of long-standing problems with Apple’s wireless trackpads and keyboards, which can also occasionally result in the doubling of letters and other glitches. Although these have improved to the level of occasional…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): The madness in this case is Safari background tabs spontaneously coming to the front again, an obviously undesirable behavior. The initial report was for an obscure (to me) web site in New Zealand, but then I asked around, and …
Lees meerNick Heer: Amazon does not promise to turn around its files nearly as quickly. It says that it can take up to thirty days to create the exported data. When it does become available, you are presented with a list of individual downloads labelled and …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although updates to XProtect’s data files and to MRT always have been irregular, a year ago they occurred quite frequently, with XProtect updates every 7-21 days, and MRT every month or so. As of today, the last XProtect update was pu…
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