Ryan Ashcraft (tweet): Last week, I published CloudSyncSession, a Swift library that builds on top of the CloudKit framework to make it easier to write sync-enabled, offline-capable apps.I started CloudSyncSession over two years ago with the goal of…
Lees meerCanopy: A library that helps you isolate CloudKit dependency and write testable code using CloudKit. […] In live use of your app, you initiate and inject the live Canopy object that talks to CloudKit. When independently testing your features, you in…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Starting today, Apple Card users can choose to grow their Daily Cash rewards with a Savings account from Goldman Sachs, which offers a high-yield APY of 4.15 percent — a rate that’s more than 10 times the national ave…
Lees meerAdam Engst (Mastodon): 33 years. That’s how long I’ve been publishing TidBITS, starting in April 1990. Last year was the closest I’ve come to shutting TidBITS down, but with changes that came late in the year, I’m more enthused about TidBITS than I …
Lees meerHarry McCracken (via Jason Snell): I’m not writing this article because the dead-tree versions of Maximum PC and MacLife are no more. I’m writing it because they were the last two extant U.S. computer magazines that had managed to cling to life unti…
Lees meerSketch: We’re writing to let you know that we’re introducing a modest increase to the cost of license renewals from $99 to $120. The new price will come into effect the next time you renew your license, on or after 19 May 2023. […] We don’t take dec…
Lees meerI’ve long wanted to be able to create new business contacts in the iOS Contacts app. On macOS, there’s a checkbox to control whether the contact displays as a person or as a company. The value syncs to iOS, which respects it, but there’s no switch o…
Lees meerJon Brodkin (Hacker News): Parler, the self-described “uncancelable free speech platform,” has been sold and shut down while its new owner conducts a “strategic assessment.” The platform will be back eventually, new owner Starboard says. Mike Masnic…
Lees meerUmar Shakir (via Hacker News): Sega is reportedly close to buying Rovio Entertainment — the company that owns the Angry Birds mobile game franchise — for a whopping $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.[…]The original game was a smash su…
Lees meerjmhbpc: Not sure when the feature started in Safari wherein duplicate downloads, within close proximity in time, would be replaced by the latest download… But I have noticed a bit of a flaw in that feature. Example: When downloading zipped music fil…
Lees meerMarco Eidinger: SwiftUI.Font.width(_:) was actually introduced in iOS 16.1 and not in iOS 16.0 as the documentation suggests.[…]While researching a solution, I stumbled on an interesting fact that #if canImport allows specifying a version that gets …
Lees meerThe Express Times: She arrived in California from New Jersey in 1988 ready to make her mark on the world. And so she did. Katie is recognized as one of the most remarkable women in Public Relations and Marketing in Technology. In her role as Vice Pr…
Lees meerSteve Jobs Archive (MacRumors, Hacker News): A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life …
Lees meerApple (full installer, MacRumors): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.5. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.6. Previously: macOS 13.3.1 macOS 12.6.4 and 11.7.5
Lees meerOskar Groth: Well this just broke – seems like Apple changed the model identifiers for new M2 Macs. Regardless of model, Macs are now just called Mac14,1, Mac15,2 etc. I wonder if there’s still a way to figure this out without hardcoding all identif…
Lees meerApple: Peer group benchmarks provide powerful new insights across the customer journey, so you can better understand what works well for your app and find opportunities for improvement. Apps are placed into groups based on their App Store category, …
Lees meerSproutcube (via Rui Carmo): Shortcat indexes your Mac’s user interface and makes them available to you in a powerful command palette.Click buttons, focus text fields, invoke menu commands, switch windows, and more; no mouse required.[…]Shortcat lets…
Lees meerTerence Kelly and Borer Yekai Pan (via Hacker News): Like the previous major revision, C11, the latest standard introduces several useful features. The most important, if not the most exciting, make it easier to write safe, correct, and secure code.…
Lees meerPaul Samuels: The XCTest framework added the super helpful function XCTUnwrap back in Xcode 11. At the time I added a similar helper to my various projects to help smooth over the many cases where casting is required. The idea is to have a similar c…
Lees meerJohn Gordon: His account [in the Mac App Store] shows $150 as a balance, but that’s wrong. If you click on Profile and drill down to this Accounts page (requires authentication) you will see the correct amount of $135.37. Evidently the amount displa…
Lees meerMatt Birchler (Hacker News): Some design assets some of you may love!macOS Cursors has SVGs of basically (actually?) every cursor from macOS.Emoji Toolkit has 135 common emoji in vector format (Figma, Sketch, and Photoshop versions) so you ever need…
Lees meer