University of Canterbury (via Hacker News): CS Unplugged is a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce …
Lees meerJustin Michaud: Here, we can see that the addition of a delete statement to a hot section of code can send the performance off a cliff! The primary reason for this is that deletion in JavaScriptCore used to disable all of the inline caching optimiza…
Lees meerMacStories: Some forged a path by adopting the latest Apple technologies in a unique way that set an example for apps that followed. Others are apps that define a category that takes unique advantage of the iPad’s hardware. These are also apps that …
Lees meerRene Ritchie: The iPhone SE’s main camera is a hybrid, a chimera. It has the same sensor and lens system as the iPhone 8 but uses the image signal processor, the ISP, of the A13. […] It’s especially fascinating to see the new iPhone SE out-shoot the…
Lees meerThomas Reed: On Monday, ZecOps released a report about a couple concerning vulnerabilities with the Mail app in iOS. These vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the Mail app or the maild process that assists the Mail a…
Lees meerVadim Shpakovski (9to5Mac): We are excited to announce that NativeConnect has passed the review in the Mac App Store. As a result, we’re opening one more distribution channel for indie developers. So if you prefer the Mac App Store, as of today, our…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (tweet): His idea was to allow users to send anonymous messages, not directly to each other, but through a third person who would intermediate the conversation. Basically, like when you send a message to someone through another perso…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: What I was hoping for was something approximating the feel and experience of a MacBook — a little more top heavy, a little stiffer at the hinge to accommodate that extra top-heaviness — but basically I wanted an iPad-as-laptop that feel…
Lees meerIsaac Goldberg (Hacker News): Sync Engine Classic and Nucleus have fundamentally distinct data models. The legacy system persists the outstanding work required to sync each file or folder to disk. For example, it stores whether a given file needs to…
Lees meerBasal Gangster (via Keith Kaisershot, Hacker News): Macintosh clock time expires at 06:28:16 GMT Monday February 6, 2040. That’s going to be a problem for users of the old Macintosh, but it is a problem for 20 years from now. Fixing that will be pos…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro offers a variety of shortcuts according to each application, but sometimes it doesn’t work as expected. Users may eventually experience unexpected behaviors with it such as freezes or specific button…
Lees meerBradley Chambers: The problem with managing passwords on iOS and macOS at the moment is the functions are scattered around. Some of the syncing happens on in the backend with no way to quickly see (especially on iOS). A prime example of this is the …
Lees meerObjective by the Sea has posted slides from Julia Vashchenko’s talk on SMJobBless() and XPC: Operation system’s security depends a lot on the way developers handle privileged operations. Is it easy to make a mistake? Is the recommended way actually …
Lees meerNSDateFormatter.com is an interactive reference for date format strings and has some good tips (via Kyle Howells): Use dateStyle and timeStyle over dateFormat whenever you can. Explain the date fallacies to your designer if you need to. If you can’t…
Lees meerDan Goodin (via Hacker News): More than 725 malicious packages downloaded thousands of times were recently found populating RubyGems, the official channel for distributing programs and code libraries for the Ruby programming language. […] The accoun…
Lees meerLaurent Sansonetti (via Peter Steinberger): Just a few days ago, iWork 10.0 shipped with iCloud apps that now include features extracted from the native codebase (C++/ObjC), using WebAssembly!I wrote a dedicated toolchain for the team, based on LLVM…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery’s lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery’s temperature history and its…
Lees meerJacob Kastrenakes: The coding platform Glitch is formally launching its first paid product today: a subscription that lets you pay to upgrade the bite-sized apps you can run on its platform.Since it launched in 2017, Glitch has let anyone write and …
Lees meershashanktomar (via Hacker News): My login to trello is with my personal gmail account. With the new SSO login screen, as soon as I enter my gmail address, it redirects me to my previous company sso page (which i left 5 years ago btw). The email addr…
Lees meerWalt Mossberg: If you use a Mac, and you insist on using Chrome, stop complaining about speed, fan noise, or battery life. It’s well known that Chrome is a resource and battery hog, especially on Macs. Safari is fully capable, quite fast and very pr…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (via Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private citizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 million. Domain experts called corp.com dangerous because yea…
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