Don Melton (tweet): Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming PC. […] While I certainly gamed my ass off with that homemade machine for awhile, it didn’t really become an essential device for me unti…
Lees meerJoanna Goodrich (via Hacker News): IEEE Life Fellow Jacob Ziv will receive this year’s IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership.”Ziv and Abrah…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: I’ve had some strange events in which my main working SSD sometimes vanishes from the Finder, although that external drive remains mounted normally. […] The first time that it happened, I assumed that the external SSD had somehow unmo…
Lees meerHarshil Shah (tweet): Going back to how Date works, it doesn’t model the actual clock time but rather a fixed point in time that can be interpreted in any time zone. And so what’s happening here is that the data is being interpreted as if it happene…
Lees meerJoe Nelson (via Hacker News): The most natural first attempt is to add an auto-incrementing integer column to track each item’s position[…] It requires updating a bunch of rows to insert one between others. […] What if we store the position of each …
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Lees meerJason Snell (tweet): At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari. But with a catch[…] You have to adapt it for WebKit, join Apple’s $99/year developer program, learn how to …
Lees meerCabel Sasser: You know what’s a really good Mac app? CleanShot. By far the best and most feature-rich screenshot/screen recording app I’ve used. Oddly, despite being sold directly, there’s no trial version. However, they have a money-back guarantee,…
Lees meerWalt Mossberg: FYI, all 6 of Steve Jobs’s appearances at the @allthingsd conferences - including the joint session with Bill Gates - are available for free in both pristine video and audio on @ApplePodcasts. We donated them after his death as a memo…
Lees meerJuli Clover (via Paul Haddad, Hacker News): According to Kuo, Apple is developing two models in 14 and 16-inch size options. The new MacBook Pro machines will feature a flat-edged design, which Kuo describes as “similar to the iPhone 12" with no cur…
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