Kaveri: Here’s an unexpected side effect of the pandemic - the water’s flowing through the canals of Venice is clear for the first time in forever. The fish are visible, the swans returned. Eliot Higgins: Because I’m a massive verification nerd who …
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo: There are countless ways to go about creating a better environment for debugging and iteration while working in iOS apps, such as using launch arguments, environment variables, or having an internal settings or debug menu inside the…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: First, it surprises you by not adopting the standard human interface. Instead of the normal Save File dialog, as used by countless apps for a great many years, it drops down a small sheet offering in a popup menu to move the document …
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Hacker News, Apple): Apple today updated the Mac mini so that standard configurations now come with double the storage capacity. The $799 configuration now comes with 256GB of PCIe-based SSD storage, while the $1,099 configuration feat…
Lees meerDan Luu (tweet): We can see that the number of command line options has dramatically increased over time; entries tend to get darker going to the right (more options) and there are no cases where entries get lighter (fewer options). […] If structure…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (Apple, Hacker News): Apple today updated its MacBook Air lineup with faster processors and graphics, a scissor switch Magic Keyboard, a lower starting price of $999, and more. The new MacBook Air features Intel's latest 10th-generatio…
Lees meerMitchel Broussard (Apple, Hacker News): Apple today introduced a new iPad Pro with a faster A12Z Bionic chip, a new Magic Keyboard accessory with a built-in trackpad, an Ultra Wide camera, a LiDAR Scanner, and more. In Apple’s description of the new…
Lees meerJoseph Heck: For anyone keeping up with #combine, @mattneub has published Understanding Combine online, first glance looks like a great tutorial with a lot of depth[…] Previously: Using Combine SwiftUI and Combine
Lees meerSujay Jayakar: Rewriting the sync engine was really hard, and we don’t want to blindly celebrate it, because in many environments it would have been a terrible idea. It turned out that this was an excellent idea for Dropbox but only because we were …
Lees meerTalal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk (via MacRumors): This article provides an investigation of some popular apps that frequently access the pasteboard without user consent. These apps range from popular games and social networking apps, to news apps of m…
Lees meer.NET Team: We are supporting these application types to provide a good path forward for the existing VB customer who want to migrate their applications to .NET Core. This allows Visual Basic customers to take advantage of new platform features like …
Lees meerNat Friedman (Hacker News): I’m excited to announce that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm. […] For the millions of developers who use the public npm registry every day, npm will always be available and always be free. […] The JavaScript…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: Suddenly asked or told to work from home—and never done so regularly before? I wrote a 55-book last week, Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily. It’s free and now available. Packed with tips on setting up a space, setting bo…
Lees meerJason Snell: My friend and former Macworld colleague Rob Griffiths keeps a record of macOS releases, which is exactly the kind of thing I’d expect from the guy who created Mac OS X Hints. Prodded by Stephen Hackett, who is apparently now the officia…
Lees meerMicrosoft (via Hacker News): Microsoft Corp. today announced that Co-Founder and Technology Advisor Bill Gates stepped down from the company’s Board of Directors to dedicate more time to his philanthropic priorities including global health, developm…
Lees meerOle Zorn: ViDL is a free Mac app that allows you to easily download videos from YouTube and hundreds of other websites for offline viewing.It is based on the popular youtube-dl command line tool, but much easier to use, especially with videos/playli…
Lees meerGus Mueller: The other question I always ask [at WWDC labs]: Is the kernel resource leak for bookmarks in sandboxed applications finally fixed? I’d sure like to put Retrobatch in the app store this year, but this bug means it can only process so man…
Lees meerKornel (via Vadim Shpakovski): I don’t have enough energy to give this project attention it needs. I’m also mostly developing in Rust these days, so Sparkle doesn’t “scratch my itch” any more.This project is quite important for security and health o…
Lees meerApple (via Phil Schiller, Hacker News, MacRumors): “We are delivering WWDC 2020 this June in an innovative way to millions of developers around the world, bringing the entire developer community together with a new experience,” said Phil Schiller, A…
Lees meerNixIntel (via Dan Moren): This Person Does Not Exist is a website that uses AI to generate random but realistic looking faces. It’s a great tool and has become a popular way of generating fake profiles for sock puppet accounts, but it is not without…
Lees meerChris Siebenmann: The first world is web TLS, which is dominated by browsers. This is the familiar world of public HTTPS, with public Certificate Authorities, requirements for certificate transparency, and so on. The browsers increasingly are callin…
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