Matthew Prince and Sergi Isasi (via Hacker News: We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google’s reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. We’re excited about this change because it helps address a privacy concern i…
Lees meerBrian Krebs: The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts l…
Lees meerI’ve been using AirPods Pro since early December. There are several aspects of them that I haven’t seen much coverage of, so I decided to write up my notes: AirPods Pro had the worst out-of-box experience of any Apple product I’ve used. There was an…
Lees meerBob Nystrom (via Gus Mueller): This book contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and …
Lees meerApple (Phil Schiller, MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced the second-generation iPhone SE, a powerful new iPhone featuring a 4.7-inch Retina HD display, paired with Touch ID for industry-leading security. iPhone SE comes in a compact desi…
Lees meerService Station (via Peter Kamb): Customize your Finder context menu with applications and scripts. Set up Rules for different sets of file types. Show custom menus depending on which types of files and folders you right-clicked. I’m a keyboard pers…
Lees meerShaun Inman (via Bradley Chambers): Anyway, after Apple regressed the keyboard to a functional design, it was finally time to upgrade. Enter the Touch Bar. One step forward, two steps back. A week later, I’m still regularly accidentally brushing or …
Lees meerGed Maheux (tweet): Linea’s new Time-Lapse feature keeps a running record of your drawing while you work. When you’ve finished drawing, save a video of the result as either a compressed 30 second clip or a full length movie. […] When you draw a line…
Lees meerSue Gee: John Conway, the mathematician who will be forever known to many programmers as the man who invented The Game of Life, died on April 11, 2020 at the age of 82, a victim of COVID-19.[…]As we reported back in 2014, see Does John Conway Hate L…
Lees meerMy thanks to Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring the blog this week. Do you ever listen to audio on your Mac? Then SoundSource is for you. It lives in your menu bar and provides you with superior control over all your audio. Take control of audio on a per-a…
Lees meerStefan Reitshamer (tweet): It’s been 4 years since Arq 5 first came out (although we’ve shipped 155 updates to Arq 5 in the meantime). Our goal with Arq 6 was to make it work with the latest operating system features and the latest cloud storage opt…
Lees meerJulian Rothkamp (tweet): Wouldn’t it be great if you could select individual files for stashing instead of all files - which is the default when using stashing? Now you can! Directly in Tower. Save Partial Stash enables you to do exactly that - stas…
Lees meerACM Digital Library (via Jessie Frazelle) Amazon CS Courses (via Hacker News) Apple TV Channels and Apple TV+ Shows Books via Local Libraries Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport (via Hacker News) Gary Hustwit’s Design Films HBO #StayHomeBoxOffi…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Back then, about 15 years ago, if you wanted to develop for the Mac, the recommended programming language was Objective-C, and the recommended application framework was AppKit, so I learned them. […] Since these technologies have unfor…
Lees meerRussell Brandom and Adi Robertson (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple and Google announced a system for tracking the spread of the new coronavirus, allowing users to share data through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transmissions and approved apps from heal…
Lees meerMaurice Parker (tweet): One area that CloudKit outshines our RESTful service implementations is that it gets notifications when the data changes. This keeps our data more up to date. In the RESTful services, we sync which feeds you are subscribed to…
Lees meerMarkos Charatzas: Effectively, by Apple putting Windmill on notice, the only way I can distribute Windmill on the Apple platforms is at the source code level. Even though this does not serve the mission to make continuous delivery accessible, whatev…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: TidBITS contacted Zoom for its insights about how it has handled security and privacy issues, but the company didn’t reply. As I finished this article and in a few days that followed, however, Zoom publicly responded to disclosures …
Lees meerFelix Seele (Hacker News): Ever wondered how the @zoom_us macOS installer does it’s job without you ever clicking install? Turns out they (ab)use preinstallation scripts, manually unpack the app using a bundled 7zip and install it to /Applications i…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (tweet): Newer devices running Apple’s recently released iOS 13.4 and macOS 10.15.4 software updates are currently unable to make FaceTime audio and video calls with older devices running iOS 9.3.5 or iOS 9.3.6, according to numerous u…
Lees meerAlexander Käßner (via Kontra): This concept brings the main menu we know and love from Mac to iPad. It keeps the numerous advantages of a written menu, redesigned with touch devices in mind. iPad Main Menu helps bring a vast amount of features to iP…
Lees meer