Sam Byford (video, Hacker News, Reddit, MacRumors): “Apple needs to fix those keyboards,” he said. “They are impossible to write on — they’ve gotten worse. It makes me want to go back to PCs. Because PC keyboards, the bounce-back for your fingers is…
Lees meerMike Rockwell: There’s just so many videos on YouTube that don’t really need the video component. Whether they be information videos or talk shows, often times you can get by without the visuals. For those videos, the YouTube app is a bit heavier th…
Lees meerTJ Luoma: With subscriptions being an important part of modern digital life, it seemed wise to find a way to keep track of them. First I turned to Bobby, which is an iPhone app that has been mentioned a few times on Mac Power Users for managing subs…
Lees meerEditorial 1.3.4 was just released, with support for modern iPhone screens but not iCloud Drive. Pythonista remains at version 3.2, last updated in 2017. Ole Zorn: I’ve just released an update for Editorial on the App Store that has been sitting on A…
Lees meerAnton Sotkov: iCloud Drive servers recently started reverting all 0 byte files to the last non-empty version. Not a problem for most apps, but all plain text editors now have a bug where it’s impossible to remove all content from a file. It looks li…
Lees meerRobert Heaton (Hacker News): But Wacom’s request made me pause. Why does a device that is essentially a mouse need a privacy policy? I wondered. Sensing skullduggery, I decided to make an exception to my anti-privacy-policy-policy and give this one …
Lees meerMaddie Stone (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): In order to join the program, the contract states independent repair shops must agree to unannounced audits and inspections by Apple, which are intended, at least in part, to search for and identify the …
Lees meerRobert Widmann: Objective-C is a simpler language than Swift. The Ontology around Objective-C is a minefield of complexity far outweighing anything Swift could hope to approach. Before you argue with me, take a short quiz. David Smith: I believe I c…
Lees meerIt looks like these updates will be about a lot more than bug fixes. Steve Troughton-Smith: UIKey! Are we finally getting keyboard key up/down events on iOS and Catalyst? Steve Troughton-Smith: UIDatePickerStyleCompact! Steve Troughton-Smith: Home i…
Lees meerApple: Starting in March 2020, you’ll be able to distribute iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS versions of your app as a universal purchase, allowing customers to enjoy your app and in‑app purchases across platforms by purchasing only once. You can choose…
Lees meerApple: Build settings have a new evaluation operator, default, which you can use to specify the default value of a build setting if it evaluates to nil in the context of the evaluation.[…]View debugging supports showing layers using the Show Layers …
Lees meerJonathan Corbet (via Hacker News): With the hash algorithm abstracted out of the core Git code, the transition is, on the surface, relatively easy. A new version of Git can be made with a different hash algorithm, along with a tool that will convert…
Lees meerIvan Drucker: We came up with a technique that uses Google Voice text messages as an alternative to authenticator apps—although it requires a bit more setup, we think it’s easier to use and understand, plus it acknowledges some people have to allow …
Lees meerBertrand Longevialle (via Colin Cornaby): Objective-C has a few macros to available to make your own NSError+YourDomain.[hm] self-documentingly crystal-clear. 👌 […] Because it is imported in Swift as a specific type, properly defined NSError domains…
Lees meerRicky Mondello: We’ve published an explainer about an idea to harden SMS-delivered one-time passwords by allowing senders to associate the codes with a website. We’ve been talking about the idea with some folks at Google, and would like more feedbac…
Lees meerCory Benfield: I’m thrilled to announce a new open-source project for the Swift ecosystem, Swift Crypto. Swift Crypto is a new Swift package that brings the fantastic APIs of Apple CryptoKit to the wider Swift community. This will allow Swift develo…
Lees meerBoy van Amstel: Catalina requires apps to request permission for various tasks. Recording the screen is one of them. Apparently Fusion uses this feature, but neglects to ask for permission. Thus the screen stays black. Some people found a way to get…
Lees meerJason Kottke (Steve Crowley, Hacker News): You’ve got to love little artistic hacks like this. Simon Weckert put 99 second-hand smartphones in a red handcart and walked around a few blocks in Berlin. Each phone was running Google Maps and being trac…
Lees meerTad Walch (via Hacker News): Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation made him a key influence on Silicon Valley powerhouses like Netflix and Intel and twice earned him the title of the world’s most influential living management th…
Lees meerOm Malik (Hacker News): Every time I awake the device from its slumber, within just a few minutes, the fans come on. And they stay on. The noise they make is very loud, especially in my quiet living room, where I usually work. I am not the only one …
Lees meerLloyd Chambers: After every reboot, the LG 5K display goes to maximum brightness. John Gruber: Is this the worst bug in the world? Not even close. It’s a paper-cut bug. No data loss, no crash, not something sort of thing where something doesn’t even…
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