Brent Simmons: For NetNewsWire for Mac, I get one or two crash logs a week referencing scrollView:scrollWheelWithEvent:. Here’s the bug for it. I’ve been getting these crashes in my app, too, but only on macOS 10.14. On previous macOS versions, the…
Lees meerMalte Skarupke (via Shantonu Sen, Niels Broekhuijsen): I overheard somebody at work complaining about mysterious stalls while porting Rage 2 to Stadia. […] The only thing those mysterious stalls had in common was that they were all using spinlocks. …
Lees meerLloyd Chambers: Thus my updated advice is to buy ONLY a 16-core (or 24/28 core if warranted). An 8-core or 12-core Mac Pro is marginal in terms of CPU performance relative to the 2019 iMac 5K. My testing shows that for single-threaded stuff, a CPU c…
Lees meerJeff Richardson: I found the solution after digging around for a while on Apple’s online support discussions. It turns out that in iOS 10.2, you need to install something that you bought from iTunes before you can watch something that you transferr…
Lees meerDavid Ruddock (Hacker News): Chrome’s problems really became apparent to me when Android app compatibility was introduced, around five years ago. (This also isn’t the first time we’ve pointed out that approach’s failings, Corbin did so in an editori…
Lees meerJimmy Grewal (thread): Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5 for Mac. This was both the most important release of Internet Explorer for the Mac, and the last release.[…]The standards compliant r…
Lees meerPatrick Wardle: I’ve decided to put together a blog post that comprehensively covers all the new Mac malware that appeared during the course of the year. While the specimens may have been briefly reported on before (i.e. by the AV company that disco…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: Oskar Groth published a modern iteration of the “LetsMove” framework where you can show a dialog at app launch, asking the user if she wants to move the app to /Applications first. LetsMove uses AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges, …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: I think the problem is that my app is running an AppleScript, which is running a shell script, which in turn actually needs to be entitled to write to this removable storage. Although the user selects the location in which to save the…
Lees meerCliff Biffle (via Bryan Cantrill, Hacker News): The Rust implementation is simpler, shorter (in lines of code), faster, and smaller (in bytes of Flash) than my heavily-optimized C++ version — and because it’s almost entirely safe code, several types…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy (tweet): My immediate reaction was frustration at the fact that it appeared nobody had carried out a real-life test of the machine. The records showed that it had been put through all the automated tests, and had passed all of them. It a…
Lees meerNikita Prokopov (via Hacker News): Every year Apple releases a new operating system and every year it needs a flagship feature to promote it. This year it was a long-overdue standalone Music app. Well, what could be simpler, right? List of files, ca…
Lees meerJustin Elliott and Paul Kiel (via Hacker News): But the success of TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made tax filing simple and free for mo…
Lees meerDevin Wilson (via Nick Lockwood, Hacker News): Sonos states on their website that “sustainability is non-negotiable,” and that they design products to minimize impact, but I work at an e-waste recycler and have demonstrable proof this is false.Sonos…
Lees meerJason Snell: I had a chance to use a prototype of the Brydge Pro+ last summer, and while in many ways it’s the iPad accessory I’ve been dreaming of for some time, it’s still quite limited by iPadOS 13. While the iPad has a real cursor now if you tur…
Lees meerRic Ford: I have now migrated MacInTouch to a new publishing platform (which hasn’t been at all easy…). Now it supports permalinks. I wonder what the plan is for the forum. John Gordon: It’s not documented, but there’s a feed now; here’s what I see …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple has made good on that promise with the rollout of the new mapping terrain to large swathes of the United States, and the updated Maps are now available across most of the country. It could still take some time for all users in the…
Lees meerJenna McLaughlin and Zach Dorfman (via Hacker News): The OPM hack was a watershed moment, ushering in an era when big data and other digital tools may render methods of traditional human intelligence gathering extinct, say former officials. It is pa…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: People often think, mistakenly, that select is the polite or proper form of choose — but, in user-interface-world, they actually mean different things. I’ve intuitively used “choose” for menu items. However, I had been using “select” …
Lees meerJuli Clover: As it turns out, though, there’s a bug in the feature that’s allowing children to communicate with anyone who texts them.[…]When an unknown number texts a child, there’s an option to add that number to the list of Contacts, allowing the…
Lees meerBBC (via Hacker News): Russian forces annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, drawing international condemnation. The region, which has a Russian-speaking majority, is now shown as Russian territory on Apple Maps and its Weather app, when viewed …
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