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Which Devices Should You Boot Your M1 Mac From?

vrijdag 29 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Before going any further, allow me to reiterate: unless you’ve got a compelling reason, only ever boot your M1 Mac from its internal SSD. That’s how it’s designed to work, and that’s how it works best, even when it’s not working prope…

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Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others

vrijdag 29 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Lovejoy: But yeah, people do complain, and even the guy who created the feature – Ken Kocienda – admits that sometimes it can be more of a hinderance than a help. Indeed, if you think that it’s gotten worse rather than better over the years, tha…

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Apple’s Q2 2022 Results

donderdag 28 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): The Company posted a March quarter revenue record of $97.3 billion, up 9 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.52. […] “[We] set an all-time revenue record for Services and March quarter revenue …

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AttributedString’s Codable Format

woensdag 27 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ole Begemann: The problem is that the character offsets that define the runs aren’t guaranteed to be stable. The definition of what constitutes a Character, i.e. a user-perceived character, or a Unicode grapheme cluster, can and does change in new U…

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Apple Self Service Repair Now Available

woensdag 27 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today announced Self Service Repair is now available, providing repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools through the Apple Self Service Repair Store. Self Service Repair is available in the US and will e…

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Studio Display 15.5 Firmware Beta

dinsdag 26 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple in March promised a firmware fix for the Studio Display to address an issue with the webcam, and according to an Apple spokesperson that spoke to The Verge, the firmware beta released today does indeed fix the webcam problem.[…]Th…

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Infinite Mac

dinsdag 26 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mihai Parparita (tweet, Hacker News): I’ve extended James Friend’s in-browser Basilisk II port to create a full-featured classic 68K Mac in your browser. You can see it in action at system7.app or macos8.app. […] At this point I switched my approach…

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The Story of iBeer

dinsdag 26 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Quinn Myers (via Nick Heer): In the year leading up to the App Store’s debut, Apple sought out developers to create software that put the iPhone’s prowess on display. One of those developers was down-and-out, 37-year-old magician Steve Sheraton. “Ap…

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Video Conferencing Apps Send Audio When Muted

dinsdag 26 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Daley (PDF, via Tristan Greene): They used runtime binary analysis tools to trace raw audio in popular videoconferencing applications as the audio traveled from the app to the computer audio driver and then to the network while the app was mut…

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Elon Musk Buys Twitter

dinsdag 26 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Twitter (Hacker News): Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk, for $54.20 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $44 billio…

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How macOS Manages M1 CPU Cores

maandag 25 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: macOS doesn’t provide direct access to cores, core types, or clusters, at least not in public APIs. Instead, these are normally managed through Grand Central Dispatch using Quality of Service (QoS) settings, which macOS then uses to d…

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App Store Removing Old Apps That Still Work

maandag 25 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

José Adorno (Hacker News): Apple has been sending some developers an email titled ”App Improvement Notice,” warning that the company will remove from the App Store apps that haven’t been ”updated in a significant amount of time.”As first reported by…

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How RAM Affects Xcode Compilation Speed

maandag 25 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Gallagher: Xcode alone can fill the RAM on a 16GB system. Yeah, okay, half of that is “Cached Files” (not app memory) so the effect is subtle. Incremental builds are 5% slower compared to a 32GB system but clean builds are about the same. (Blue…

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Heterogeneous Swift Dictionary With Strong Types

maandag 25 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ole Begemann: The environment in SwiftUI is sort of like a global dictionary but with stronger types: each key (represented by a key path) can have its own specific value type. For example, the \.isEnabled key stores a boolean value, whereas the \.f…

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Discussions in Brave Search

vrijdag 22 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brave (via Hacker News): Discussions are a different entry point to real-human conversations on certain topics, especially ones suffering from a glut of SEO content. This content—so prominent on Google that one recent viral blog post asserted “Googl…

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A Cautionary Tale From the Decline of SourceForge

vrijdag 22 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Greg Wilson (Hacker News): There are thousands of books in print today about starting a business, but only a handful about ending one and moving on. [Tamburri2020] is a deep dive into one particular (and not yet complete) ending: the decline of Sour…

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CalDigit Element Hub

vrijdag 22 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eric Slivka: The Element Hub features a total of eight ports plus a DC-in port for powering the dock. There are four Thunderbolt 4/USB4 ports, which include one upstream port for connecting to the host computer and three independent downstream ports…

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Why Do New Macs Have a /AppleInternal Folder?

vrijdag 22 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (tweet): The /AppleInternal folder, as its name suggests, is used by Apple engineers for internal development purposes. Some people external to Apple have discovered that creating an /AppleInternal folder on your Mac can cause behavior …

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Improved Reddit Search

donderdag 21 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Reddit (via MacRumors, Hacker News): With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. A…

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Open Letter to Apple About Final Cut Pro

donderdag 21 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alex Gollner: On Tuesday 19th April 2022, a group of over 100 people in TV and film production worldwide sent an open letter to Tim Cook of Apple about Final Cut Pro. They used the letter ask Apple to publicly stand by the use of Final Cut Pro - App…

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Applying Computer Science

donderdag 21 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Sandofsky: People seem to think Computer Science all data structures and sorting algorithms, when that’s maybe 5% of CS. So for folks just starting out, I made a short intro to a different area of CS, and a powerful tool I use every day: the tra…

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