Wikipedia: Michael Sweet, who owned Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997 and the first public betas appeared in 1999. The original design of CUPS used the Line Printer Daemon protocol (LPD), but due to limitations in LPD and vendo…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple will bring lossless audio and ulta-low latency audio to AirPods Max in its upcoming iOS 18.4 software update arriving in April, according to the company.[…]Apple also said that today it is making a USB-C to 3.5mm audio cable avai…
Lees meerMy Intel MacBook Pro died, and even though I have an M1 MacBookAir ready to replace it, it’s taken several days to get back to the point where I can run older versions of macOS for testing my apps. I had all the old versions installed in separate pa…
Lees meerDrew DeVault: Over the past few months, instead of working on our priorities at SourceHut, I have spent anywhere from 20-100% of my time in any given week mitigating hyper-aggressive LLM crawlers at scale. […] If you think these crawlers respect rob…
Lees meerMark Edwards: The image above shows the same drop shadow values, rendered by CSS on the web, Android, and iOS. It’s a dark and extreme shadow, to make the differences more pronounced. The shadows are black, with no X offset, 24px Y offset, and a 24p…
Lees meerFlexibits: Multiple Windows! See your schedule from different views or dates at the same time. Open new windows at File > New Window Finally. The main use case for me is to compare the same month for different years. I have been doing this by openin…
Lees meerSimon Sharwood: Over the weekend, users noticed their Timelines went missing.Google seems to have noticed, too, as The Register has seen multiple social media posts in which Timelines users share an email from the search and ads giant in which it ad…
Lees meerBryan Irace: It’s one thing for Apple’s AI product offerings to be non-competitive. Perhaps even worse is that as Apple stands still, software development is moving forward faster than ever before. Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat inte…
Lees meerScharon Harding (Hacker News): If you’re frustrated by some of your favorite apps pestering you to sign up for a subscription, some new data may help you empathize with their developers more. According to revenue data from “over 75,000" mobile apps,…
Lees meerST-0008: One of the first enhancement requests we received for Swift Testing was the ability to test for precondition failures and other critical failures that terminate the current process when they occur. […] This proposal introduces new overloads…
Lees meerNatalia Panferova (tweet): This book distills the core principles and foundational concepts behind SwiftUI, the modern UI framework for building apps across Apple platforms. My goal is to help you go beyond surface-level understanding and develop a …
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Mastodon): Whole Reddit thread examining this simple question: “What month is it?” and Siri’s “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” response (which I just reproduced on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.4b4). One guy changed the question to “Wh…
Lees meerAndrej Karpathy: There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: For most, Console isn’t the right tool. It only offers the options of viewing its live stream, or making an archive of the whole log and wading through that when you need to look at an event in the past. Although my log browser Ulbow …
Lees meerBjango: In the beginning, Bjango was just a couple of friends making free OS X Dashboard widgets. We started working on those widgets prior to OS X 10.4 Tiger’s release on 29 April 2005, so my best guess is we started working together some time in M…
Lees meerKarin Matussek (Hacker News): The judges on Tuesday said the Federal Cartel Office was right to find that the iPhone maker’s footprint across markets meets the threshold for more oversight.[…]Apple was attempting to topple a May 2023 decision by the…
Lees meerJohn McCall: SE-0446 added basic language support in Swift for non-escapable types, whose values are restricted in scope. However, it intentionally left out the ability for functions and properties to return values of these types, pending a future p…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo (Hacker News): The EU has followed up on its Digital Markets Act specification procedures for Apple regarding the iPhone’s interoperability with third-party connected devices like smartwatches and headphones, as announced last fall. To…
Lees meerEric Migicovsky (via Dare Obasanjo, Hacker News): During Pebble v1, I learned how much harder it is to build a great smartwatch experience on iPhone than it is on Android. It sounds like things have actually gotten worse over the last 8 years. I wan…
Lees meerArin Waichulis (Hacker News, MacRumors): It’s now been revealed that a serious HTTP bug left Passwords users vulnerable to phishing attacks for nearly three months, from the initial release of iOS 18 until the patch in iOS 18.2.Security researchers …
Lees meerRic Ford: Apple’s exhorbitantly-priced Mac storage comes with impressive benchmark claims but has some serious, hidden bottlenecks in certain scenarios, as do other SSDs. David Harry illustrated this clearly in a video, using Activity Monitor as a n…
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