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The Developer Experience Gap

donderdag 15 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stephen O’Grady (via Hacker News): Fragmentation makes it impossible for vendors to natively supply the requisite components for a fully integrated toolchain. That does not change the reality, however, that developers are forced to borrow time from …

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Thoughts on the App Store

donderdag 15 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Riley Testut: As a user, I love the App Store and would hate to see it become less important to iOS. In practice though, the current App Store situation has some significant problems which are getting harder and harder to ignore — several of which C…

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Deliveries Switches to Subscription

donderdag 15 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ryan Christoffel: Deliveries, the package tracking app for iOS and Mac, has received a strong update today with a wide variety of quality of life improvements. There’s nothing huge or flashy here, but the sum of the many small changes should help De…

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A Warning About Glassdoor

donderdag 15 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

his_rotundity_ (via Hacker News): I have a very close family member that works for Glassdoor. I spoke to this person and found out that a strategic repositioning, if you will, for Glassdoor is that they are trying to become a PR company of sorts, so…

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Faster Xcode Updates

woensdag 14 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Igor Kulman (via Cédric Luthi): Installing Xcode from the Mac App Store might seem like a convenient way to do so but it is too slow and inflexible. You cannot use the Mac App Store to install multiple version of Xcode at the same time if you need t…

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BBEdit 13.5

woensdag 14 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bare Bones Software: BBEdit has a new feature to protect your data: in the Text Files preferences, there is an option: “Rescue untitled documents when discarding changes”. When this option is on (as it is by default), and you close an untitled docum…

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MagSafe 2020

woensdag 14 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mitchel Broussard: Apple today announced that the iPhone 12 family is gaining support for MagSafe, which will offer high-powered wireless charging as well as a new ecosystem of accessories that attach to the iPhone 12. Previously, MagSafe was Apple’…

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iOS 14 and 14.1

woensdag 14 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: Second, context is necessary because despite the pandemic and rocky rollout of iOS 13 and its many updates, Apple was still able to infuse iOS and iPadOS 14 with fresh, bold ideas that are tracing a path for both platforms to follo…

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iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

dinsdag 13 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

iPhone 12 (MacRumors, event, Hacker News): Apple today unveiled iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini with 5G technology, ushering in a new era for the world’s best smartphone. The newly designed iPhone 12 models feature expansive edge-to-edge Super Retina X…

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A14 Bionic

dinsdag 13 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Velazco (via MacRumors): At a high level, the A14 seems similar to Apple’s other Bionic chipsets. This system-on-a-chip packs a six-core CPU — two cores high-performance cores and four for lower-priority tasks — just as the A12 and A13 did. Th…

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HomePod mini

dinsdag 13 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today unveiled HomePod mini, the newest addition to the HomePod family that delivers impressive sound, the intelligence of Siri to get things done, and a smart home experience that offers comfort and convenience…

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Spotify Not Playing Fair

maandag 12 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SongShift Team (also: MacRumors): The Spotify Developer Platform Team reached out and let us know we’d need to remove transferring from their service to a competing music service or have our API access revoked due to TOS violation. Spotify only want…

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Rust After the Honeymoon

maandag 12 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bryan Cantrill (Hacker News): So Rust is going really well for us at Oxide, but for the moment I want to focus on more personal things — reasons that I personally have enjoyed implementing in Rust. These run the gamut: some are tiny but beautiful de…

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Epic Denied Preliminary Injunction for Fortnite

maandag 12 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (also: Hacker News): A California judge today denied Epic Games’ request for a preliminary injunction that would have required Apple to allow Fortnite back into the App Store, which means the app will continue to remain unavailable on Ap…

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MacUpdate Acquired by Clario

maandag 12 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Reed: Just learned that MacUpdate was purchased by the company that makes MacKeeper in July. 👀 Andrew Okhota: MacUpdate has announced its new ownership as part of Clario. There will be no change to MacUpdate as a platform and no change to Mac…

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Apple’s New Map: U.S. Territories, Ireland/U.K.

maandag 12 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Justin O’Beirne: On April 9th, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to a number of U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands[…] Justin O’Beirne (MacRumors): On October 1, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to Ireland and the U…

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Google v. Oracle at Supreme Court

vrijdag 9 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Timothy B. Lee: The Supreme Court’s eight justices on Wednesday seemed skeptical of Google’s argument that application programming interfaces (APIs) are not protected by copyright law. The high court was hearing oral arguments in Google’s decade-lon…

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Apple Forces Telegram to Close Channels Run by Belarus Protestors

vrijdag 9 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Scott Chipolina (via Old Unix Geek, Hacker News): Apple is requesting that Telegram shut down three channels used in Belarus to expose the identities of individuals belonging to the Belarusian authoritarian regime that may be oppressing civilians. […

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Remote Work and Apple and Microsoft

vrijdag 9 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

AppleInsider: Apple CEO Tim Cook participated in an interview as part of The Atlantic Festival on Monday, where he discussed a range of topics from climate change to remote work and the company's antitrust troubles. Mark Gurman (Hacker News): Cook s…

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Sunsetting Google Play Music

vrijdag 9 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Google: YouTube Music is the new home for your music. Starting in September, we will close the Music store on Google Play. Starting in October, users will begin losing access to the Google Play Music app. To keep your Play Music library, including y…

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BitBar Needs a Developer

vrijdag 9 oktober 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: Hey developer friends, it has come to my attention that BitBar development has stopped. I love this app and maybe you do too? If anyone is interested in keeping it afloat (and getting it to work well with Big Sur), here’s a github threa…

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