Ivan Mehta (Hacker News): Brave Software, the maker of Brave Browser and Search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments. The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and sai…
Lees meermacOS Containers (via Hacker News): Containers have fundamentally changed the way that modern software is developed and deployed. Containers are supported by a wide range of operating systems including FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux and even Windows, but a…
Lees meerNikita Prokopov (Hacker News): The problem is, you don’t want to operate on code points. A code point is not a unit of writing; one code point is not always a single character. What you should be iterating on is called “extended grapheme clusters”, …
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: Avoid Apple’s $29 USB-C to Lightning adapter. It’s more expensive than most 2-foot-long cables with USB-C plugs on both ends rated for Thunderbolt 4/USB4 speeds of 40 Gbps and 100W.Instead, I recommend upgrading cables instead of ad…
Lees meerMegan Gray (via Jason Kottke): When you enter a query, you might expect a search engine to incorporate synonyms into the algorithm as well as text phrase pairings in natural language processing. But this overhaul went further, actually altering quer…
Lees meerKagi (Hacker News): We’re thrilled to announce that unlimited search is now included in our $10/month Professional plan and our Ultimate, Family, and Duo plans. […] With new search sources proving more cost-efficient, the improved efficiency of our …
Lees meerChris Eidhof and Florian Kugler: In this short book, we will help you build a mental model of how SwiftUI works. We explain the most important concepts in detail and help you build a solid foundation for understanding SwiftUI. Since SwiftUI is a lar…
Lees meerFrank A. Krueger (Hacker News): The Control Center icon in the Mac [menu bar] is always running and always using 1% CPU. Not a big deal, but I finally had to know wtf it was doing…Turns out it is constantly re-rendering its SwiftUI (running layout) …
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple has started requiring new apps to show proof of a Chinese government license in order to be listed on the China App Store, as the company joins rival app stores that adopted the policy years earlier to meet tightening state regul…
Lees meerApple (full installer, IPSW): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7. See also: MacRumors, Mr. Macintosh. Previously: macOS 14 S…
Lees meerApple, November 30, 2020: In addition, over the the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks: A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks Strong protections against server failure A new preferenc…
Lees meerSebastiaan de With (Mastodon): Today we’re launching a totally new, totally different app. Meet Orion.Orion is a small, fun app that helps you use your iPad as an external HDMI display for any camera, video game console, or even VHS. Just plug in on…
Lees meerDan Milmo (via Hacker News): Apple is facing complaints from users about overheating in relation to its new iPhone 15 models, with some customers claiming the titanium frame becomes too hot to hold.[…]There are several posts on the Apple forum refer…
Lees meerRon Amadeo (via Hacker News): The Pixel 8 is rapidly approaching its October 4 unveiling, but before then there are a bunch of leaks out there. Reliable leaker Kamila Wojciechowska has a whole list of Pixel 8 and 8 Pro specs over at 91mobiles, along…
Lees meerJason Schreier (Hacker News): Epic Games Inc., the maker of the popular Fortnite video game, is laying off 870 employees as it seeks to rein in costs. Tim Sweeney (Hacker News): As we shared earlier, we are laying off around 16% of Epic employees. W…
Lees meerRichard Lawler: Apple was granted a motion putting a hold on the appeals court ruling that would push the company to undo its “anti-steering” rules and let outside developers link to third-party payment mechanisms. The mandate is stayed for 90 days …
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apple TV 4K becomes an even more versatile living room device with the launch of FaceTime on tvOS 17 today, bringing new ways to connect with family and friends.1 Users can make calls directly from Apple TV 4K, or start calls on i…
Lees meerMatthew Massicotte (Mastodon, via Juri Pakaste): Swift Concurrency is all about succinct, safe code. Yet, it comes with a surprising amount of subtly and new pitfalls. It’s actually quite easy to accidentally introduce races and hangs. Learn about b…
Lees meerHelge Heß: ManagedModels is a package that provides a Swift 5.9 macro similar to the SwiftData @Model. It can generate CoreData ManagedObjectModel’s declaratively from Swift classes, w/o having to use the Xcode “CoreData Modeler”.Unlike SwiftData it…
Lees meerGoogle (via Hacker News): Twenty-five years ago we launched Google Search to help you find answers to questions big and small. As we celebrate our birthday, here’s a look back at how our products have evolved over the past 25 years, from autocomplet…
Lees meerFree Software Foundation (via Hacker News): On September 27, 1983, a computer scientist named Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop a free software Unix-like operating system called GNU, for “GNU’s not Unix.” GNU is the only operating syste…
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