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Swift “Async Algorithms” Package

maandag 28 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tony Parker (tweet): AsyncAlgorithms is a package for algorithms that work with values over time. That includes those primarily about time, like debounce and throttle, but also algorithms about order like combineLatest and merge. Operations that wor…

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Special App Store Behavior for Disney+ Subscriptions

maandag 28 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Max Seelemann: iOS biz people… Subscription price increase as mere NOTICE instead of having to confirm, else subs expires. Is this new behavior for everyone or exclusive to Disney+? David Barnard: “The [Apple Developer] program & access to the App S…

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Eat Your Books

maandag 28 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Carlson: Then I discovered Eat Your Books, a website that combines the searchability and discoverability of modern technology with the richness (and generally higher quality) of printed cookbooks.[…]The core of Eat Your Books is an extensive re…

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GitHub Launches New Algorithmic Feed

vrijdag 25 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Richard Speed (via Hacker News): As soon as the new feed arrived, replete with all kinds of exciting suggestions for developers to look at, the complaints began rolling in as users worried the recommendations were turning GitHub into something distr…

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Searching Twitter Direct Messages

vrijdag 25 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Twitter has bolstered its search feature for direct messages so that users can now search their inbox using keywords and names to find the specific message they are looking for. […] As noted by The Verge, the improved search can surfac…

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macOS 12.3 Removed the nano Text Editor

vrijdag 25 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Siguza: macOS 12.3 replaces nano with pico. Via Saagar Jha: Unbelievable. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when I was setting up a Mac yesterday but this is just unacceptable. […] macOS, where you can get the cheap knock-off version of ev…

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How to Launch Mac Apps in Private

vrijdag 25 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: If you’re unfortunate enough to have to use your Mac in a part of the world where surveillance is performed, even knowing when you use certain apps could prove to your great disadvantage. This article looks at two potential solutions:…

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iPhone Cameras and Computational Photography

donderdag 24 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sebastiaan de With: When you take a photo on a modern iPhone — or any smartphone for that matter — you might like to think that what you saw was what you captured, but nothing could be further from the truth.[…]Automatic edits on photos can go wrong…

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Christopher Alexander, RIP

donderdag 24 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Robert Steuteville (via Hacker News): Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaf…

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Inscrutable App Store Billing

donderdag 24 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Marco Arment: Am I missing something, or has Apple done a really great job of making it impossible to figure out which purchases on a family plan led to each charge on my credit card? Marco Arment: What App Store credit-card fraud looks like: a slow…

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Apple Removes In-App Google TV Purchases

donderdag 24 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton: Apple has seemingly removed the ability to buy and rent TV shows and movies in the Apple TV app for Android TV and Google TV in the latest update to the app. […] FlatPanelsHD suggested that Apple may have stripped back the function…

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Apple Submitted New Proposal to ACM

donderdag 24 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Mueller: The Apple-ACM saga over in-app payments in dating apps continues with another €5 million ($5.5 million) weekly fine, but there’s more. Dutch tech reporter Nando Kasteleijn published a note (image) from the competition enforcement ag…

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5G’s Effect on Battery Life

woensdag 23 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: Nguyen includes a tip at the end of her column explaining how to create a simple Shortcuts automation to switch cellular networking to LTE when your device’s battery hits a certain threshold, like say 40 percent. But I look at these res…

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Firefox Unique Download Identifiers

woensdag 23 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Martin Brinkmann (via Hacker News): Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.[…]This data will allow…

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Incentives in Product Design and Development

woensdag 23 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Luu: The Twitter change where they switched everyone from their choice of timeline to ranked timeline reminds me of a question: why don’t social media companies react to negative signals from users?The change trained me to stop checking the app …

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Instagram Reintroduces Chronological Feed Option

woensdag 23 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Instagram today rolled out new Following and Favorites feed options, allowing users to sort their feeds to see content posted chronologically from the people they follow or content just from their favorite people.[…]It’s worth noting th…

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Swift Bugs Moving to GitHub Issues

woensdag 23 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mishal Shah: Swift’s open source project issues are currently in JIRA, making it difficult for developers to discover and integrate them into our workflows on GitHub, such as pull requests. To provide a better workflow for developers, we are working…

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Affordable Thunderbolt 4 Cables

woensdag 23 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: The biggest problem with our advice was cost. Thunderbolt 4 cables, which offer full backward compatibility with USB 3 and USB4 over USB-C connectors, can cost well over $100 from trusted manufacturers, including Apple.Industry stalwart …

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Swift FormatStyle Deep Dive

woensdag 23 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brett Ohland (via Dave Verwer): Apple introduced the new FormatStyle protocol with iOS 15. It allows for some truly remarkable things to happen when you’re converting your data into localized strings. In true Apple fashion though, details about how …

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Widespread Apple Services Outage

maandag 21 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

MeanRaw: And the CloudKit 503 is back :( Apple really needs to get it together. So frustrating Michael Billig: Apple store systems are down and they’re literally doing everything on paper lol Joe Rossignol: Affected services and apps include the App…

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Monterey’s Visual Look Up

maandag 21 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: If you’ve updated to 12.3, it’s very easy to test. Bring up the image of a painting in one of the supported apps, currently including Safari, Photos and Preview. In Safari, Control-click on the image to produce the contextual menu. At…

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