Victoria Song: Head to Apple’s beta software page in the mobile version of Safari Alex Guyot: This year’s changes to the Workout app may be more significant than usual, but otherwise watchOS 9 fits this formula quite snugly. While it may not make fo…
Lees meerKaleidoscope 3.4: The ability to share a diff with others via PDF definitely makes collaboration easier. You can open the PDF and add comments via your favorite PDF editing software. You could even write comments with your Apple Pencil on your iPad.…
Lees meerChris Siebenmann (Hacker News): But both of these situations have some things in common. I can actually talk to real people in both situations, and both have out of band means of identifying me (and communicating with me).Famously, neither of these …
Lees meerMarco Eidinger: WWDC 2022 video “Meet Swift Package plugins” explains how to perform actions on Swift packages and Xcode projects with Swift package plugins.[…]Both plugin types were introduced in Swift 5.6 and work in Xcode 13.3 when used on Swift …
Lees meerAdam Engst: Alas, cropping, which is one of the most common things I do in Preview, became harder in Monterey, thanks to the addition of Live Text. That’s because Preview sometimes thinks I want to select text in the image rather than drag selection…
Lees meerTom Pittman in 2007 (via David Kopec): When HyperCard came out, Bill Atkinson said there would never be a HyperCard compiler. Strictly, he was right, because you can write self-modifying scripts in HyperCard, and that just can’t be compiled in any r…
Lees meerNatasha Lomas (via Slashdot): The coordinated complaints about Amazon’s confusing and convoluted cancellation process for Prime were announced back in April 2021 — so it’s taken just over a year for the e-commerce giant to agree to change its ways.F…
Lees meerJuli Clover: There is no word on what’s new with the Apple TV Siri Remote, but it likely includes minor bug fixes and performance improvements. […] Apple also does not provide details on how to update the Siri Remote, but the software will be instal…
Lees meerJason Snell: If reports are true, the iPhone 13 mini will be the last of its line, replaced by a larger iPhone 14 Max this fall. And as someone who owns and loves an iPhone 13 mini, this makes me sad. […] First, let’s consider the report that the iP…
Lees meerJesper: View models and functional UI look like solutions, and they are indeed effective ways of managing complexity by making all the constituent state visible and enumerated. But in my experience they also encourage a way of programming where you …
Lees meerMarcel Weiher (tweet, Hacker News): Blackbird depends crucially on a number of architectural elements: first are stores of the in-process REST architectural style. These can be thought of as in-process HTTP servers (without the HTTP, of course) or c…
Lees meerJoe Fabisevich (tweet): Apple has never provided a blessed architecture for SwiftUI, and many developers have spent thousands of hours filling the gaps with their own ideas. A familiar approach for many developers is to take the MVVM pattern many pe…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today detailed two initiatives to help protect users who may be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats, such as those from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary sp…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): European Union lawmakers have approved landmark legislation to heavily regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other big tech firms.[…]Under the DMA, gatekeepers may have to:Allow users to install apps from third-party app …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: While reading from each of the Disk Images was almost as fast as from the SSD, write speeds were severely reduced. The sparse bundle was least impaired, with a write speed just under half that of the SSD, but all three disk images wro…
Lees meerLuc Beaudoin brought to my attention that there is a serious bug in the current Monterey beta. So far it’s affected every app I’ve tried that uses AppleScript. The script will fail with error -609 (connectionInvalid). Sometimes the script succeeds t…
Lees meerVadim Yuryev (video): We discovered SEVERE thermal throttling with Apple’s new M2 MacBook Pro, proving that it needs a BETTER cooling system with two fans instead of one. We exported 8K Canon RAW and saw temps hit 108°C, more than we’ve ever seen on…
Lees meerMajid Jabrayilov: The task view modifier starts the unstructured async task and binds it to the view lifecycle. SwiftUI automatically cancels ongoing tasks whenever the view disappears by propagating cooperative cancellation. […] Another variant of …
Lees meerCarly Page (Hacker News, paper): The attack, appropriately called “Pacman,” works by “guessing” a pointer authentication code (PAC), a cryptographic signature that confirms that an app hasn’t been maliciously altered. This is done using speculative …
Lees meerfrownface84: Phone had about 6gb of free space yesterday and was out of space when I woke up this morning. What’s this 10gb worth of system data? AwsomeOHdog: Why would “System Data” be using almost 40 GB of storage? Mizikame (via Meek Geek): Erase …
Lees meerBen Kuhn: I just did another round of “what’s making my Zoom calls stutter every 60s” and this time the culprit was… APPLE #!*$ING MAPS. That’s right, Macs now come preloaded with software to ruin wifi latency :(You can fix by revoking Maps’ locatio…
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