David Goldsmith (1994, PDF, via Hacker News): If you browse the computer section of any technical bookstore, you’ll find many good books offering advice on how to do object-oriented design—books dealing both with general design principles and with d…
Lees meerSindre Sorhus (Hacker News): Seems like Sketch is back on the App Store, after leaving it in 2015. They seem be using the original SKU, because the Mac App Store shows it as 4+ years old, but it currently has only 7 ratings with an average of 3 star…
Lees meerMike Wheatley (Hacker News, Reddit): Artificial intelligence researchers from Apple Inc. and Cornell University quietly unveiled an open-source and multimodal large language model last October known as Ferret, which is said to use parts of images as…
Lees meerMellel (via Agen Schmitz): This significant update, more than a year and half in the making, brings Dark Appearance support, Split View, improved Find & Replace and a multitude of enhancements to Mellel’s user interface, rendering and features. A sw…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Here’s the analogy I’ve been thinking best applies. American Express operates Centurion Lounges at a few dozen airports around the world, exclusively for the use of their Platinum Card holders. Other premium credit cards offer similar a…
Lees meerDavid Smith (2012): The Japanese government requires that Apple withhold 20% of your profits from App Store sales unless you have filed forms demonstrating that you are a foreign company and taxable there instead. The forms are a bit complex and the…
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News): Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersk…
Lees meerEmma Roth (Hacker News): The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its …
Lees meerDan Goodin (via Bruce Schneier): To van der Ham’s surprise and chagrin, the same debilitating stream of pop-ups hit again on the afternoon commute home, not just against his iPhone but the iPhones of other passengers in the same train car. He then n…
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.0.3 is another maintenance update. The main focus is working around various cases where Apple Mail doesn’t behave properly, resulting in hangs or messages not being filtered or trained. Some interesting bugs were: Some customers were see…
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: The tile implores you to “Replay and share your year in music.” In tiny text, seemingly indicating shame or remorse, it says “Go to site”. You see, the Apple Music app - and iTunes before it - are largely glorified markup viewers, bu…
Lees meerJulia Evans: has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit? Jordan Rose: And I did in fact do something very like that, back when I was playing wi…
Lees meerifixcoinops (via Hacker News): Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going “Just get a Brother, they’re fine” and manMANLike this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand,…
Lees meerJuli Clover: On Reddit, the Beeper Mini team says that the Mac-based fix coming on December 20 stabilizes iMessage for Beeper Cloud and Mini, and it “works well” and “is very reliable.”[…]Beeper has been using its own Mac servers to provide that inf…
Lees meerBrandon Williams and Stephen Celis (2018, via Christian Tietze): While unconventional, we hope that it’s obvious that this solution of controlling dependencies is superior to the traditional solutions in use today. It also gives us an opportunity to…
Lees meerYingyu (via Hacker News): Since the introduction of iOS 9 in 2015, Apple has included an API call named “HotspotHelper,” enabling developers to request a capability for their apps to assist the system in connecting to WiFi access points.[…]The real …
Lees meerJuli Clover: The machine learning technology that Apple is using for autocorrect has been improved in iOS 17. Apple says it has adopted a “transformer language model,” that will better personalize autocorrect to each user. It is able to learn your p…
Lees meerDan Moren: In a very clever move, Apple has introduced essentially a manual mode for AutoFill. You’re no longer dependent on Safari recognizing that, yes, these are fields where you can put your address in. Instead, anywhere that you can enter text—…
Lees meerNatalia Panferova: In Swift, property observers such as willSet and didSet are not called when a property is set in an initializer. This is by design, as the initializer's purpose is to set up the initial state of an object, and during this phase, t…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: It may seem counterintuitive to dictate and type at the same time, but there is a reason for this. As you dictate, you will find that the accuracy of the transcription is far from 100%. Previously, when you spotted mistakes to correc…
Lees meerGoogle (via Hacker News): Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups (at groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe to Usenet groups, or view new Usenet content. You can continue to view and search for his…
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