Craig Hockenberry (tweet): This project is an Objective-C category that generates rich text by reading Markdown as the source code. It also allows you to write Markdown using attributed strings. The code only processes link and emphasis span element…
Lees meerDan Goodin (via Juli Clover): Billions of devices—many of them already patched—are affected by a Wi-Fi vulnerability that allows nearby attackers to decrypt sensitive data sent over the air, researchers said on Wednesday at the RSA security conferen…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (tweet): I know from talking to Arment privately that about 30 seconds after he took the screenshot, the Inspector updated to show the actual folder size. But that’s still very wrong. The Finder should never show inaccurate information r…
Lees meerOle Zorn (tweet): First off, this is not intended to replace the system keyboard or your preferred third-party keyboard for most of your typing. It’s much more like the emoji picker, i.e. you’d typically switch to it just for specific tasks.[…]You c…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: ShortcutDetective, a free utility from Irradiated Software, is designed specifically to track down which app is receiving a shortcut. Just run the app (after granting it Accessibility permissions), type the shortcut, and in most cases S…
Lees meerAbner Li (via Hacker News): Google this evening began alerting Takeout users about the “technical issue.” From November 21-25, 2019, those that requested backups could have had videos in Google Photos “incorrectly exported to unrelated users’ archiv…
Lees meerJason Kottke: In this recent TED Talk, lawyer, musician, and technologist Damien Riehl talks about the rapidly diminishing number of melodies available to songwriters under the current system of copyright. In order to help songwriters avoid these me…
Lees meerWaly Kerkeboom: Got a new Mac (like I did) and miss the old boot chime? sudo nvram StartupMute=%00 See also: Mr. Macintosh and Howard Oakley. Previously: Jim Reekes Discusses Apple Sound History
Lees meerIvan Mehta: Last week, at the 49th CA/Browser Forum, a voluntary consortium of certification authorities, Apple announced that it’ll stop allowing HTTPS certificates on Safari with more than 13 months of validity, later this year.[…]As the Register …
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Despite pushback from Apple, the European Parliament in January voted overwhelmingly for new rules to establish a common charging standard for mobile device makers across the European Union. This article explores what form the EU laws …
Lees meerDave Verwer: The iOS Developer Community Survey is the largest public survey of Apple platform developers ever undertaken. Data collection happened over four weeks between 6th December 2019 and the 7th January 2020. In that month, 2,290 people fille…
Lees meerTobias Günther: And finally, with version 4 of Tower for Mac, we’ve reached another huge milestone in our mission to make version control with Git easier and more productive for everyone. Why, you ask? Because undoing mistakes in your daily work has…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple is aiming to stop the sale of a new insider book called “App Store Confidential,” written by former Apple employee Tom Sadowski who ran Apple’s App Store business in Germany until November 2019.[…]Apple claims that the book reveal…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: In the hearing, Daru complains that iOS 13’s repeated location permission alerts disfavours Tile, imposing hurdles on third-party apps that Apple’s Find My don’t have to contend with. I’d say that is indeed unfair and anticompetitive;…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (Hacker News): Google declined to discuss this reader’s account, saying its contracts prevent the company from commenting publicly on a specific partner’s status or enforcement actions. But in a statement shared with KrebsOnSecurity, the…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: What that doesn’t tell you is that, without that Versioning database, all old versions of your documents are lost forever from your cloned volume. And that can be a very significant loss indeed. So, Time Machine goes out of its way, a…
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher (mhaeberli, Hacker News, Reddit): From 1980 to 1997, he worked for Apple, recruited by Steve Jobs, and ultimately rising to become vice president and chief scientist. In his 17 years at Apple, he began on the Apple Lisa, ran the de…
Lees meerDrew McCormack: OK, I was sure I must have been messing up somehow, but it turns out Sign In with Apple is not supported in Developer ID signed apps (source DTS). Must be the only entitlement that requires the Mac App Store. It is undocumented and p…
Lees meerDave Kerr (via Gus Mueller): There are lots of laws which people discuss when talking about development. This repository is a reference and overview of some of the most common ones. For example: Amdahl’s Law about optimization, Brooks’ Law about sta…
Lees meerWillyC: The new data protections in Catalina make some folders inaccessible by default (for example the ‘Documents’ folder). When an application tries to access one of these folders the OS presents the user with a dialog box to ensure they intended …
Lees meerRony Fadel (tweet): We’re tempted to think of labels as lightweight in terms of memory usage. In the end, they just display text. UILabels are actually stored as bitmaps, which could easily consume megabytes of memory. […] When you dispatch_async a …
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