Ben Sandofsky: Meanwhile, a storm brewed on the horizon: iOS 13. At the start of summer, we tested Halide with the first iOS beta, and found significant issues. We filed tickets with Apple and hoped for the best, but as iOS 13 reached its last few b…
Lees meerAdam Engst: When I used Siri to create the calendar event for the call, because I specified Mickie and Gary by name, Siri tried to be smart and invited them to the event without telling me. I didn’t want that to happen—the event was for my reference…
Lees meerDr. Drang: Apparently, in its neverending quest to save battery, Apple is powering down the wifi system between packets, which means a delay when new packets arrive or need to be sent. This doesn’t materially affect file transfers or streaming becau…
Lees meerBrent Simmons (tweet): The parsers are fast — but we also do our best to skip parsing entirely when we can. There are two ways we do that. We use conditional GET, which gives the server the chance to respond with a 304 Not Modified, and no content, …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: FBI officials have somehow managed to unlock at least one of two passcode-protected iPhones owned by Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the perpetrator of a mass shooting at a Naval Air Station in Florida last December, according to CNN. Appl…
Lees meerLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: The lawsuit, however, has already produced a tangible outcome: very few people, especially current and former customers and users, want to talk about Corellium, which sells the eponymous software that virtualizes iPhon…
Lees meerMy thanks to Magic Lasso for sponsoring the blog this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high-performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It allows you to experience a cleaner, faster web—without ads. As a native Safari content …
Lees meerNick Heer: Twitter’s URL shortener works by creating 301 redirects, but Safari apparently doesn’t follow those to their destination URL. In some cases, that probably makes sense — large file downloads are often hosted on CDNs with inscrutable addres…
Lees meerEric Slivka: Several users of popular email app Edison Mail this morning are reporting that they are able to see email accounts of other users within the iOS app. In what appears to be a major privacy breach, users report that after enabling a new s…
Lees meerAxios (via Hacker News): Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources. The total deal value is around $400 million. […] Giphy is a massive video library, with hundreds of…
Lees meerTibor Bödecs: SE-0279 [multiple trailing closures] is one of the most debated new proposal.[…]Enum types don’t have to explicitly implement the Comparable protocol thanks to SE-0266.[…]SE-0269 aka. Increase availability of implicit self in @escaping…
Lees meerBecky Hansmeyer (tweet): Most of my issues with SwiftUI boil down to 1) Missing UI elements and 2) Missing customizations. […] I would really like to see an easier way to support the native Apple Pencil mark-up tools in PDFKit. […] A system-wide col…
Lees meerYuebin Sun (tweet, MacRumors): Today, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for macOS patched three critical vulnerabilities […] I reported. The only requirement needed to trigger the vulnerabilities is that Adobe Acrobat Reader DC has been installed. A normal us…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Thin bezels, single-cable connection, and the ultra-wide format I fell in love with a couple of years ago.[…]If you’re used to an Apple Thunderbolt Display 27, or any other 2560×1440 monitor, you’re going to be perfectly happy with the …
Lees meerJuli Clover: iFixit last week shared x-rays of the new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro, giving us a little look at what’s inside Apple’s newest keyboard design, and today, iFixit is back with a mini trackpad teardown. Kevin Purdy: There is so much going…
Lees meerValve (via Rene Ritchie, MacRumors, tweet, Hacker News): SteamVR has ended macOS support so our team can focus on Windows and Linux. Mark Hughes: Now, that’s just their VR headset, which is an extremely low-volume, 1% of the market gadget; VR’s kind…
Lees meerRob Griffiths: Many many years ago, Apple made glorious laptops with matte screens. Sadly (for me, at least), these gave way to brighter, shinier, and much more reflective glossy displays. These same glossy screens are found on iOS devices as well, …
Lees meerScunthorpe Sans (via John Gruber): Modern fonts can combine letters into a single ligature, usually for things like fi or fl but you can pick anything so we’ve done it for swears.
Lees meerManton Reece: In the final week before App.net shut down, I whipped up a few scripts to download every post on the platform via the API. After that finished, I also attempted to download small versions of many of the photos, but ran out of time. […]…
Lees meerNoah Gilmore: The Swift Evolution Proposal details how composition of property wrappers works - the wrappedValue access goes two levels deep.They work inside out, like Python decorators, but with more ceremony from the type system.The wrappedValue o…
Lees meerLester Coleman: Monkey app is one of the top downloaded and used online video chatting app to make new friends. The app is targeted towards the Gen Z audience and is climbing uphill in terms of concurring and new users. Monkey app was removed/delete…
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