Brent Simmons: We very much want to use SwiftUI, and we believe it’s the future of Mac and iOS development — but emphasis should be on future, because it’s not quite ready in the present. Which should surprise nobody, given that it’s so new. But I t…
Lees meerAimee Green: Police wanted to search the contents of an iPhone they found in Catrice Pittman’s purse, but she never confirmed whether it was hers and wasn’t offering up a passcode. Her defense attorney argued forcing her to do so would violate her r…
Lees meerAshley Bischoff: I ran into the same problem that you did with my ScanSnap no longer working on recent versions of macOS. And I ended up trying exactscan.com since it claimed to work with lots of scanners. And not only does it work but I might even …
Lees meerTyler Hall: Why didn’t she know there were options further down the share sheet? Because she’s using an iPhone 8, which happens to be just the right height to perfectly crop the share sheet. With invisible scroll bars, this sort of thing can happen …
Lees meerObjective Development: The kernel is the first component of the operating system to start. It has no other tools available. In particular there is no way to check code signatures, and all file system access is very hard at this point. Apple therefor…
Lees meerkyro: the pm at apple who came up with sms verification code auto-fill deserves a nobel prize Dan Hill: Yea this is hands down one of the most elegant features I’ve used. Solved a real problem, simply, with no effort on my part. Ricky Mondello: The …
Lees meerMichel Fortin: I recently found a bug in my work-in-progress-next-major-version of Counterparts Lite where text in certain languages was not showing up in the text editor. […] It is important to know however that there’s a crucial difference between…
Lees meerDani Deahl: According to Apple, the new Music app, which replaces iTunes, removes support for automatically syncing playlists with third-party apps using XML. XML file support is a popular organizational feature for DJs who use it to sort tracks int…
Lees meerStefano Maffulli (via Hacker News): The point that everybody misses is that Stallman’s views on software don’t matter anymore. The FSF should have nurtured and grown new leaders a long time ago, leaders who looked into the future, understand cloud a…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: In NetNewsWire, I use JavaScript evaluation with a WKWebView to get the current scroll position. It broke in Catalina. I used document.body.scrollTop to get the y position, which appears to always return 0 now. Workaround: window.page…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: Screen Time was also added to macOS Catalina, with the same features. However, it doesn’t seem to work correctly. Rather than showing which apps are frontmost when you work, it shows how long apps are open[…] I keep a number of apps …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you have macOS or other Apple installers, chances are that they’ll be signed, or use as an intermediate certificate authority, by a certificate which expires very shortly. If you were to try installing that package, macOS will repo…
Lees meerRonald Oussoren: This is a major feature release, the two most important changes are the addition of support for frameworks and APIs introduced in macOS 10.15 (Catalina), and the removal of support for Python 2.7. Catalina still ships with version 2…
Lees meerMattt Thompson: It’s become a truism among iOS and macOS developers that Apple’s documentation is often incomplete or missing altogether. But to what extent is this actually the case? With a bit of web scraping, I was able to come up with some numbe…
Lees meerCraig Federighi: When we released the first set of apps using Catalyst [in Mojave], some of the concerns that were voiced placed a certain amount of focus on the technology, but that was really design decisions we made. There were pure design decisi…
Lees meerScott Perry: Documentation for Core Data’s new derived attributes feature is up! It’s a really cool feature. NSDerivedAttributeDescription (see also: derivationExpression): Use derived attributes to optimize fetch performance[…] […] Data recomputes …
Lees meerMerritt Baer: Colleagues had a car broken into and laptops stolen in downtown Mountain View last night while we were at dinner. We wondered how they knew to break into the hatchback when it is not see- through. They turn on bluetooth scanners and fo…
Lees meerLuna Display (via Matt Ronge): But Mac-to-Mac is more than just taking your old Macs out of retirement — use it as a way to make yourself more mobile! Luna was made with nomadic workers in mind, and with Mac-to-Mac Mode, you can have even more freed…
Lees meerRich Trouton: This is not to say that you can hold up a “Notarized!” sign to the auditor, watch the auditor leave after just tossing the checklist aside and commence the post-audit party. But for those folks who have to undergo regular compliance au…
Lees meerYahoo (via Hacker News): Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won’t be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted con…
Lees meerCasey Liss: Interesting: in Find My in iOS 13, the subject of a notification is told you set up a notification. In Find My Friends in the iOS 12 era, you could quietly notify yourself about a friend without them knowing. […] So for example, I know m…
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