Jason Snell: I’m frustrated because I do have some Shortcuts that take time to run, yet unless I have them beep or display a notification when they reach a certain point in the process, I have no idea what they’re doing or if they’re even working. B…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: Samsung announced its new lineup of monitors at CES this morning. Two of the most exciting models for Mac users include the company’s first 5K monitor, the ViewFinity S9 with a slick design not unlike Apple’s Studio Display but with …
Lees meerStanford (via Hacker News): We were saddened to learn of the death of Carl Hewitt, eminent AI researcher and visionary computer scientist. Wikipedia: Hewitt was best known for his work on the actor model of computation. For the last decade, his work…
Lees meerNick Heer: As Kyrnin writes, web designers usually do a better job these days, and most browsers no longer support user stylesheets by default. Google removed them from Chrome nine years ago and they were made optional in Firefox in 2019. But Safari…
Lees meerJeffrey Vander Stoep: For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerabilities across products, and across the industry. On Android, we’re now seeing something different - a significant dro…
Lees meerScharon Harding (via Hacker News): Dell announced a beefed-up monitor to expand the limited options available to creative professionals who want more pixels. With 6144×3456 resolution, the Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor (U3224KB) places itself firmly…
Lees meerFarhan Thawar (in January 2020): After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to go full steam ahead building all of our new mobile apps using React Native.[…]At Shopify, the idea had its skeptics at the time (and still does), but many sa…
Lees meerAlejandro Martinez: In Swift Concurrency all your async code runs in a cooperative thread pool, unless you are using Actors (or in the future custom Executors, but that’s a topic for another day). The beauty of the cooperative pool abstraction is th…
Lees meerBen Klemens: Lemmer-Webber drew a direct line from problems on other social networks to the development of a network where local controls are built in. “Queer people built the Fediverse,” she said, adding that four of the five authors of the Activit…
Lees meerAhmed Tanvir Mahdad et al. (PDF via Bruce Schneier): We explore recent trends in smartphone manufacturers that include extra/powerful speakers in place of small ear speakers, and demonstrate the feasibility of using motion sensors to capture such ti…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: From what I’ve gathered, Southwest’s problem this week is a combination of an outdated scheduling system and their generally high efficiency. They keep roughly 90 percent of their planes in service all day every day, but that means when…
Lees meerGeorge Burke (via John Scott-Railton): Got a pop up on both my iPhone & Apple Watch about password reset. I didn’t take action. Then received call from 1-800-MY-APPLE. […] “There has been strange Apple ID login attempt activity from a MacBook device…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: I used a relatively little-known trick for examining the raw source code of a scripting dictionary. Simply click and drag from Script Editor’s document proxy icon, into a text editor such as TextEdit, Xcode, or BBEdit[…] It’s a quick-…
Lees meerNTDEV (via Hacker News): Windows 11 brought in a new design language, putting an emphasis on rounded corners and gradients and a new transparent background called Mica, which aims to replace the old Acrylic design. […] Unfortunately, we still have p…
Lees meerjq: jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.[…]jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that yo…
Lees meerReid Blackman (Hacker News): Like Messages on your iPhone, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Signal uses end-to-end encryption, making it impossible for the company to read the contents of user messages. But unlike those other companies, Signal also …
Lees meerAaron Trickey: I just open-sourced my Help Compiler, a self-contained command-line tool to build HTML help from simple plain-text source. […] A Mac app’s user guide will frequently reference its main menu. HC has built-in syntax to look up a menu it…
Lees meerKashmir Hill: If I were suddenly cut off from any of these services, the data loss would be professionally and personally devastating. […] Some of my data landlords were more accommodating than others. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram offered Takeout…
Lees meerKashmir Hill (Mastodon, Hacker News): Google refused to reconsider the decision in August, saying her YouTube account contained harmful content that might be illegal. It took her weeks to discover what had happened: Her 9-year-old eventually confess…
Lees meerUnder the Radar: Abandoning the CloudKit plan for Overcast in light of new information. He’s still finding the CloudKit Web API to be unreliable. Also, a surprising 10% or so of the app’s users can’t use CloudKit, either because the phone isn’t sign…
Lees meerMarques Brownlee (via Dave Mark): Google Assistant vs Apple’s Siri vs Amazon Alexa vs Samsung’s Bixby He says that Google Assistant is far ahead and that Alexa is not what it once was. Siri comes in second, but that seems to mainly be due to the iOS…
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