Marco Arment: In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction, I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. […] Apple’s customers don’t u…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Every Safari extension that runs JavaScript — in other words, almost every Safari extension — will have these same warnings, so what are users supposed to do with the warnings? Avoid Safari extensions entirely? Then why does Apple prov…
Lees meerGuillaume Louel (via Tanner Bennett): In macOS Catalina, 3rd party screensavers are now running in a sandboxed container which limits everything. As of right now there are no workarounds for many of the restrictions. […] Aerial can only write in the…
Lees meerAdam Engst (tweet, Hacker News): Unfortunately, Apple’s marketing claims about Dark Mode’s benefits fly in the face of the science of human visual perception. Except in extraordinary situations, Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way. The hum…
Lees meerAdam Chester (tweet): Last year I posted a few tricks to help when targeting MacOS users, and included a technique useful for spoofing file extensions with the aim of taking advantage of Finder’s removal of the .app extension from certain filenames.…
Lees meerthma (via Heath Matlock): One of my earliest findings was that several of the GoF-Patterns had a stark resemblance of structures that are built into in functional languages: for instance the strategy pattern corresponds to higher order functions in …
Lees meerTony Fadell: It took 4+ yrs to ship Magic Cap v1.0 - our leaders wanted to avoid making the same mistakes they had made with MacOS v1.0 We all learned how important it is to stick to a schedule. The “new” internet crushed GM. Real artists ship - fas…
Lees meerSamuel Groß (Hacker News): This is the first blog post in a three-part series that will detail how a vulnerability in iMessage can be exploited remotely without any user interaction on iOS 12.4 (fixed in iOS 12.4.1 in August 2019). […] This research…
Lees meerJesse Squires: I needed to get notified when the system appearance changed. On iOS, this is very straight-forward and a first-class API. On iOS 13, the interface style is part of UITraitCollection.[…][On macOS,] you can KVO on NSApp.effectiveappeara…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: One of the keys to the stability of the shipping versions of NetNewsWire is that we don’t allow KVO (Key-Value Observing). KVO is a false convenience — it’s often easier than setting up a delegate or old-fashioned notification. But to…
Lees meerArmin Briegel: Apple has started shipping Mac models that used to come with Mojave pre-installed with Catalina. If your organization has blockers for Catalina (incompatible software, etc.) you may want to install Mojave on these Macs. Unfortunately,…
Lees meerBrenden Mulligan, on the three choices given when you’re on an iPhone call and a new call comes in: These options break my brain every time. The issues: 1. It’s unnecessary decision making in the 10 seconds before the new call goes to voicemail 2. I…
Lees meerChris Baraniuk: Being a cyber-security researcher, she was familiar with web code so she decided to examine how OneTravel displayed its web pages. (Anyone can do this by using the “inspect” function on web browsers like Firefox and Chrome.) After a …
Lees meerJohn Siracusa (tweet): In classic, when you click on a window that belongs to an application that’s not currently active, all the windows that belong to that application come to the front. In Mac OS X (and macOS), only the window that you click come…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Like the aforementioned Shortcuts utilities, LaunchCuts was born of its developer’s frustration with the lack of folders in Shortcuts – a basic feature that is still bafflingly absent from the app in 2020.[…]LaunchCuts can only rea…
Lees meerDieter Bohn (via MacRumors): Xie says Twitter is adding a new setting for “conversation participants” right on the compose screen. It has four options: “Global, Group, Panel, and Statement.” Global lets anybody reply, Group is for people you follow …
Lees meerSHA-1 is a Shambles (via Hacker News): We have computed the very first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1. In a nutshell, this means a complete and practical break of the SHA-1 hash function, with dangerous practical implications if you are still usi…
Lees meerJordan Morgan: Look, you know where I’m going with this. If you’ve adopted SwiftUI (or even if you haven’t - view controllers apply here too) then you know Xcode Previews are more than a time saver. They are a fork in the road. There’s no going back…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: Apple entered the 2010s just as the iPhone began to explode in popularity. The iPhone became the most successful consumer product, ever. Sales surged for another five years and still make up a majority of Apple’s revenues. […] In an o…
Lees meerOpenDrop (via André Staltz): OpenDrop is a command-line tool that allows sharing files between devices directly over Wi-Fi. Its unique feature is that it is protocol-compatible with Apple AirDrop which allows to share files with Apple devices runnin…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): It turns out that “Reload Page” does not actually reload the page in the way you expect. I’m not sure exactly what “Reload Page” does, but it still seems to rely on the disk cache. If you hold down the option key, you see “Relo…
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