My thanks to Magic Lasso for sponsoring the blog this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high-performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It allows you to experience a cleaner, faster web—without ads. As a native Safari content …
Lees meerNick Heer: Twitter’s URL shortener works by creating 301 redirects, but Safari apparently doesn’t follow those to their destination URL. In some cases, that probably makes sense — large file downloads are often hosted on CDNs with inscrutable addres…
Lees meerEric Slivka: Several users of popular email app Edison Mail this morning are reporting that they are able to see email accounts of other users within the iOS app. In what appears to be a major privacy breach, users report that after enabling a new s…
Lees meerAxios (via Hacker News): Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources. The total deal value is around $400 million. […] Giphy is a massive video library, with hundreds of…
Lees meerTibor Bödecs: SE-0279 [multiple trailing closures] is one of the most debated new proposal.[…]Enum types don’t have to explicitly implement the Comparable protocol thanks to SE-0266.[…]SE-0269 aka. Increase availability of implicit self in @escaping…
Lees meerLight Bulbs, custom grill, John Wick, the Matrix, Harry Turtledove’s Worldwar and Colonization series, self publishing, and second-hand book stores are all topics covered The post Geeks Pub – Bondo Man appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meer“Unbending stance” is a rather harsh description of Apple and Google’s desire not to (a) “undermine people’s privacy” or (b) “drain phone battery life”. This isn’t an “unbending stance”. It’s table stakes for designing a system that people will actu…
Lees meerThe Ladies welcome Victor Cajiao. Victor shares how he uses technology while he and his wife travel the country in their Airstream camper. He The post Three Geekly Ladies – Victor Cajiao – Episode 140 appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meer