Brent Simmons (tweet): NetNewsWire 5.0.1 for iOS is delayed due to an apparently new, or newly-enforced, issue: if an RSS reader includes default feeds, Apple will ask for documentation that says you have permission to include those default feeds. T…
Lees meerCharlie Chapman: Looking again at implementing CloudKit for syncing and again getting hung up on the whole “I can no longer transfer this app to another account” thing Is it really worth setting up a separate LLC and dev account for each app for the…
Lees meerMike Ash (via Joe Groff): This is a tool which can inspect a Swift process and dump information about the Swift runtime in that process. It currently supports inspecting two kinds of information: It can dump the protocol conformance cache. It can du…
Lees meerChristina Farr: Within a few weeks, the Apple project -- code-named “Bubble” -- had dozens of employees working on it with executive-level support from two sponsors: Craig Federighi, a senior vice president of software engineering, and Jeff Williams…
Lees meerAirbnb: This package defines mechanisms to partially recover from errors when decoding Decodable types. It also aims to provide an ergonomic API for inspecting decoding errors during development and reporting them in production. […] After running th…
Lees meerPrashanth Chandrasekar (via Hacker News): Like companies large and small, we have had to make difficult choices in order to reflect the market conditions. This week, we reduced our global workforce by approximately 15%. Most of the affected employee…
Lees meerAshley Watkins and Royi Hagigi (via Hacker News): A complete rewrite is extremely rare, but in this case, since so much has changed on the web over the course of the past decade, we knew it was the only way we’d be able to achieve our goals for perf…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Dithering is a new podcast from yours truly and Ben Thompson. Three episodes per week, 15 minutes per episode. Not a minute less, not a minute more. It’s a subscription: $5/month or $50/year. […] Dithering is subscription-only but it is…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: A nationwide class action lawsuit filed against Apple in Northern California court this week accuses the company of knowingly concealing a defect with a display-related flex cable on recent 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models. […] …
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Multiple iPhone and iPad users are seeing their apps crashing at launch as of this afternoon, and the issue appears to be caused by a faulty Facebook SDK that the apps are using. […] Multiple developers on GitHub have attr…
Lees meerChris Hynes: It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Steve Jobs liked to take pictures. He was even taking a picture the last time I saw him. However, many people might not know that some of his photos shipped as Desktop Pictures in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.…
Lees meerWink (Hacker News): Wink has taken many steps in an effort to keep your Hub’s blue light on, however, long term costs and recent economic events have caused additional strain on our business. Unlike companies that sell user data to offset costs asso…
Lees meerErica Sadun: Ran into trouble this weekend where I was unable to add permissions for a number of apps to allow access to my microphone and camera.[…]With some help from Bas Broek and this article, which specifically addressed the inability to grant …
Lees meerZoom (via David Heinemeier Hansson): Zoom 5.0 is here! With robust security enhancements and to prepare you for the upcoming transition to GCM encryption. Bruce Schneier: There is nothing in Zoom’s latest announcement about key management. So: while…
Lees meerTom Warren (Hacker News): Microsoft has settled the great space debate, and sided with everyone who believes one space after a period is correct, not two. The software giant has started to update Microsoft Word to highlight two spaces after a period…
Lees meerJonathan Deutsch (Hacker News): Today we released Whisk 2.0: a lightweight web page editor with a live preview that updates as you type. The name may be new, but the mac app’s origins are in shareware called HyperEdit that I started while in college…
Lees meerJoseph Curran (via Adam Engst): Those first two weeks with AirPods Pro were like heaven on earth. Then came the sting in the tale and the start of this ongoing saga: a firmware update.AirPods firmware updates happen automatically. And unlike with iO…
Lees meerOleksandr Kosovan: The fact that the Mac App Store became much better and that it supported subscriptions, made us work on building CleanMyMac X for the Mac App Store. MacPaw: The fact that some CleanMyMac X features aren’t available on the App Stor…
Lees meerColin Cornaby: One weird thing about the Mac Pro I haven’t seen mentioned… It does not support sleep. It can do display sleep, and the sleep command in the Apple Menu will trigger display sleep. But the machine itself will not support deep sleep and…
Lees meerStefan Reitshamer: The problem [with Arq 5] is, as your backup set gets bigger, the number of “index files” that explain what’s in those pack files grows until it becomes unwieldy. To find an object, Arq had to check every index file, as well, as th…
Lees meerJason Snell: Apple on Thursday announced that it generated $58B in revenue during its second fiscal quarter. Services revenue was up again, wearables revenue was up again, and iPhone, Mac, and iPad were down. The company declined to give guidance on…
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