Ax Sharma, in January: The developer behind popular open-source NPM libraries ‘colors’ (aka colors.js on GitHub) and ‘faker’ (aka faker.js on GitHub) intentionally introduced mischievous commits in them that are impacting thousands of applications r…
Lees meerRyan Dotson: I loved using labels in ‘Classic’ Mac OS to colour-code files and folders in Finder. We lost this in the modern era, replaced by tags. In earlier versions of Mac OS X, they nearly filled the gap, because the whole name was coloured, but…
Lees meerMaxwell Swadling: The M1 ultra can crank out a clang build in 6min30s. Which is 2x the M1 Max! Really impressive if you are building clang or other large cmake projects M1 Ultra: 6m30s M1 Max: 13m54s 16 core Xeon Mac Pro: 11m51s Frank Reiff: Xcode B…
Lees meerJason Snell: For 15 years, I’ve used an auto-switching power strip in conjunction with my desktop computers. When the computer turns off, the power strip automatically turns off many other devices—powered speakers, USB hubs, you name it.[…]The power…
Lees meerChannel 5: My Vimeo contact told me that all of my videos had been removed from Patreon because I’d exceeded Vimeo’s ‘bandwidth limit’ (image 1). Bear in mind, we haven’t uploaded a single Channel 5 video directly to Vimeo, we’ve only uploaded throu…
Lees meerCraig Grannell: Read-later services have come and gone since Instapaper’s debut, but the original survives. The app and service both remain free, although you can opt for a ‘premium’ subscription, which adds archive text search, text-to-speech and s…
Lees meerAmanda Silberling: Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio? Apparently, Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Zaccaria did.[…]Over the la…
Lees meerAlex Seville (Hacker News): Photographers who craft and create work that might be considered risqué by some will have a safe place online to interact with one another, share mutual interests, and put their art into the world without the fear of it b…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The recent disappearance of the 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display from Apple’s product line has thrown a spotlight on the core design tradeoff with an all-in-one Mac: you can’t separate the Mac from the monitor when it comes time to up…
Lees meerChristopher Atlan: The idea was to bundle Kaleidoscope version 2 and version 3. This would enable users to get version 3 at a bundle price discounted for those who bought version 2. […] If a user changes the country of their Apple ID, bundle pricing…
Lees meerTed Kremenek: Swift 5.6 enhances the language through a number of proposals from the Swift Evolution process, including:SE-0290 - Unavailability ConditionSE-0315 - Type placeholders (formerly, “Placeholder types”)SE-0320 - Allow coding of non String…
Lees meerPEP 594 (via Hacker News): Back in the early days of Python, the interpreter came with a large set of useful modules. This was often referred to as “batteries included” philosophy and was one of the cornerstones to Python’s success story. Users didn…
Lees meerDave Nanian: This release is especially important for Apple silicon users. macOS 12.3 will break SuperDuper! v3.5 due to problems with asr (Apple Software Restore), the tool that must be used to copy the OS, and we’ve worked around that issue in our…
Lees meersajadmh (via Hacker News): This game utilizes a hybrid of formulas/conditional formatting and Google Apps Script. Douglas Vaghetti (Hacker News): What makes Wordle special is not the core mechanic itself, but the series of very intelligent decisions…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: macOS 12.3 Monterey has arrived, delivering Universal Control, the long-awaited feature that allows users to transition between Macs and iPads with a single set of input devices.[…]For the past several weeks, I’ve had my iPad Pro sitt…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS and iPadOS 15.4 are huge updates that bring quite a few useful new features to the iPhone and the iPad. With iOS 15.4, there is now an option to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask with no additional hardware like the Apple Watc…
Lees meerRed Sweater: This update introduces an expansion of FastScripts’s own built-in scripting additions, with three powerful new commands for searching, replacing, and splitting text with regular expressions. These can be used by any AppleScript on your …
Lees meerJim Nielsen (via Old Unix Geek, Hacker News): I’m intrigued by the ability to use system colors in CSS and these web views in macOS show how engineers at Apple are leveraging non-standard CSS keywords in Webkit to mimic UIs in macOS which are otherw…
Lees meerTom Parker (Reddit): The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, has announced that it has started down-ranking sites based on whether they’re deemed to be associated with Ru…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although Apple has made a big thing of protecting privacy, macOS has one hole which Apple acknowledged over a year ago, promised to fix, and hasn’t fulfilled its promises. Every time you open an app, macOS checks the validity of its d…
Lees meerJay Peters: The design change, which lets you swipe between your Home (algorithmically served) and Latest (reverse chronological) timelines, was announced Thursday. To set it up, you tap the sparkle icon in the top right corner, and you’ll see the o…
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