Thomas Claburn (Hacker News): Apple has argued for years that developers who don’t want to abide by its rules for native iOS apps can always write web apps.It has done so in its platform guidelines, in congressional testimony, and in court. Web deve…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, full installer, IPSW): Today’s update addresses a frustrating macOS Sonoma bug that could cause text to get randomly replaced while typing. There have been multiple complaints about the issue, which affected web pages and…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, the watchOS 10.3.1 update adds unspecified “improvements and bug fixes.” Previously: watchOS 10.3
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, the update includes a fix for a bug that could cause text to unexpectedly duplicate or overlap while typing. Previously: iOS 17.3 and iPadOS 17.3
Lees meerEmilia David: Apple researchers released a new model that lets users describe in plain language what they want to change in a photo without ever touching photo editing software.The MGIE model, which Apple worked on with the University of California,…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Instead, you get harassed by frequent notifications imploring you to “Upgrade to macOS Sonoma”, notifications that won’t take no for an answer. They don’t even have no for an answer! And if you click the wrong thing, you’ll accidentall…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: CGPDFService turns out to be quite a small background XPC process inside the CoreGraphics framework, located on the System volume (SSV) in the path /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/CGPDFService.…
Lees meerTN3161 (via Quinn): To condense this into plain English, this certificate says that “Apple certifies that this developer is associated with this public key, and the matching private key can be used to sign Mac code.” This is clearly a simplification…
Lees meerBluesky (Hacker News): Bluesky is building an open social network where anyone can contribute, while still providing an easy-to-use experience for users. For the past year, we used invite codes to help us manage growth while we built features like m…
Lees meerFlickr: To celebrate this huge milestone, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to explore all of the technological and structural moments that have shaped Flickr into what it is now. Mark Zuckerberg: 20 years ago I launched a thing. Along the way, l…
Lees meerAndré Jorgensen: Generic typealias can be used to simplify param types etctypealias Parser = (String) -> [(A, String)] […] func parse(stringToParse: String, parser: Parser) […] Finding Elements of Specific Type in Swift extension Array { func whereT…
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. […] We created Pkl because we think that configuration is best expressed as a blend b…
Lees meerAnnie Ropeik (2020): The owner of the Teatotaller café in Somersworth is taking on Facebook at the New Hampshire Supreme Court.[…]Owner Emmett Soldati markets them all on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. He says it was a blow to his business w…
Lees meerLuis Villa (via Hacker News): In October of 2021 the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) decided to launch what is believed to be the first significant open source lawsuit based in contract rather than in copyright. Critically, the SFC’s case argued …
Lees meerNick Lockwood: I once again got bitten by the fact that T? properties in a Swift struct become optional parameters in the synthesized initializer, making it easy to accidentally omit a property that you meant to set. The workaround is either to use …
Lees meerMike Piontek: I was looking at this [SimpleText document] icon for inspiration and now I’m wondering what the name of the newspaper is meant to be. pnop? 🤔 I like that the front page photo is a screenshot of a desktop. John Calhoun (via Cabel Sasser…
Lees meerThomas Steeles (via Jason Kottke): [Most] people know of the font. By that notion, Vincent Connare, the creator of Comic Sans, has exclaimed that “I made the best font in the world.” Whether you believe that or not, it doesn’t exclude the fact it wa…
Lees meerAshley Carman (2021, Hacker News): Spotify hoped he would bring much of that audience along with him when he signed exclusively to the platform in 2020 in a reported $100 million deal, giving it the reach and power needed to take over the podcasting…
Lees meerApple (Slashdot): More than 600 apps and games designed to take advantage of the unique and powerful capabilities of Apple Vision Pro will be available this Friday, February 2. […] Apps built specifically for visionOS, like Box, make it easy to coll…
Lees meerBarry Schwartz (via Hacker News): Now when you click the three dots for more information for a search result snippet, the cache button is missing. […] So how do you access the cache? Just Google cache:domain.com. You can also set up a bookmarklet: j…
Lees meerThe Iconfactory: With Project Tapestry, we’ll create a universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the Internet. A service-independent overview of your social media and information landscape. Point the app tow…
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