Bradley Chambers (tweet): iBooks Author will no longer be updated, and iTunes U is being discontinued at the end of 2021. iBooks Author will continue to work, but you’ll need to make preparations to transition to Pages in the near future. Much of th…
Lees meerCraig Mod: This sense of a decline in software craft has been building for years, but it wasn’t until Apple released the iPad Magic Keyboard that I felt the pain of this hardware-software gap so acutely. […] Apple’s hardware is ever-more refined. Wh…
Lees meerAll I really wanted was an updated version of my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro that was faster and had a larger display (preferably matte). It’s definitely faster. Here’s how long it takes to build SpamSieve on my different Macs: MacProcessorBuild Time Ma…
Lees meerMark Gurman (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors, AppleInsider): The company is holding WWDC the week of June 22. Unveiling the initiative, codenamed Kalamata, at the event would give outside developers time to adjust before new Macs roll out in 2021, the…
Lees meerTodd Bishop (via Corey Quinn, Hacker News): A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with …
Lees meerFederico Viticci: My most used perspective, by far, is a simple one I call ‘Radar’. This perspective presents me with a list of all upcoming tasks across all projects, including those that have a defer date, which I usually don’t see in other perspe…
Lees meerDominik Wagner: TIL: plutil in catalina also supports objc and swift as output format. So if you want to quickly convert a e.g. json to inline code format, plutil might be the thing for you. Previously, plutil was mostly useful for validating proper…
Lees meerDavid Sparks: Apple is a year in with its voice to text system. I’ve been using it since release, but also continue to use Dragon for Mac which, while no longer supported, continues to work. This video demonstrates the differences and where Apple st…
Lees meerRasmus Lerdorf, in 1995 (via Reddit): Announcing the Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0. These tools are a set of small tight cgi binaries written in C. They perform a number of functions including: Logging accesses to your pages in yo…
Lees meerDrew McCormack (tweet): One of the big questions on my mind is how well the fully declarative approach scales to complex apps. You can already build quite reasonable portal apps for your favorite web service with SwiftUI, which is 90% of the iOS app…
Lees meerMilen Dzhumerov (tweet): This article explores how apps link differently against the runtime depending on the deployment target.[…]How can you link against the same dylib, which has a single install name, but any linked binaries record different dyl…
Lees meerApple (via Apple Developer News, Hacker News): The Password Manager Resources project exists so creators of password managers can collaborate on resources to make password management better for users. Resources currently consist of data, or “quirks”…
Lees meerGus Mueller: The main new features are with the Shape Processor. If you’re not already familiar with the shape processor, it’s a neat ability Acorn has to take shapes on vector layers and pipe them through a series of actions, similar to how Automat…
Lees meerGareth Corfield (via Hacker News): The bug, discovered on Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft fitted with Rockwell Collins Aerospace-made flight management systems (FMSes), led to airliners trying to follow certain missed approaches turning right instead of…
Lees meerRaph Koster (via Em Lazer-Walker): No, “shards” came about specifically because when we realized we would need to run multiple whole copies of Ultima Online for users to connect to, we needed to come up with a fiction for it. I went off and read a w…
Lees meerMichael Roy: Fusion 11.5 users can now pull, build, run and push containers as part of a modern development and testing workflow, without needing other tools such as docker desktop installed. […] When a container is fired up, we also mount the rootf…
Lees meerYasoob Khalid (via Hacker News): They talk about the tripple redundancy system and how SpaceX uses the Actor-Judge system. In short there are 3 dual core ARM processors running on custom board (according to elteto). For each decision a “flight strin…
Lees meerAndy Grant (via Wojciech Reguła): Per the specification, an event can have URI-specified attachments, but when such an event is exported from Calendar, such as an attachment to an email or sent as a meeting invite, the files are embedded into the re…
Lees meerRust Core Team (tweet, Hacker News): Rust has changed a lot these past five years, so we wanted to reflect back on all of our contributors’ work since the stabilization of the language. […] One thing that we haven’t mentioned much is how much Rust’s…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (also: Hacker News): A proposed class action lawsuit in the U.S. has accused Google of violating federal wiretap laws by tracking the online activities of users when in Incognito mode. According to Reuters, the class action argues that …
Lees meerPeakstep: Adds support for importing and converting videos and GIFs Adds support for iOS device recording […] Adds cursor click and drag visualizations for screen recordings Adds support for creating and managing export presets Previously: The Story…
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