SE-0452 (via Steve Canon): Swift does not currently support fixed-size or fixed-capacity collections with inline storage. (Or at least, it doesn’t do so well, not without forming a struct with some specific number of elements and doing horrible thin…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Mastodon): It also brought to mind how social media has largely kneecapped true hypertextual writing by not enabling it. You can, of course, add links to web pages in social media posts on any of the various basically-the-same-concept-a…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Prior to macOS 10.15 Catalina in 2019, the display of Thumbnails was supported by the QuickLook framework. From Catalina onwards, this is provided by a new framework named QuickLook Thumbnailing. The older framework is documented here…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis: In recent months, I’ve begun to notice that results from web searches often highlight specific text on the page to which they’re linking. The web page is also scrolled to the relevant content. It’s quite helpful! A quick investigation …
Lees meerI’ve long used the Send to Kindle app to upload documents for reading on my Kindle Oasis. Unlike with books, I usually don’t care about saving notes and highlights for these, so I haven’t tried doing that in a while. However, I recently read a long …
Lees meerPaddle writes: Previously, to initiate Apple Pay, customers were redirected to a secondary page due to Apple constraints with top-level domains. But now, Apple has updated their framework, allowing us to provide a seamless, single-click Apple Pay ex…
Lees meerThomas Ricouard: Recently, there’s been much talk and fuss about AI, and whether or not it can improve your development workflow. I wanted to touch base about how AI and its implementation in Cursor have been significantly improving my speed and eff…
Lees meerJennifer Pattison Tuohy: Fast-forward to today, and there are over 40 million Echo smart speakers in US households, with Alexa processing billions of commands a week globally. But despite this proliferation of products and popularity, the “superhuma…
Lees meerRuffin Bailey: I often buy from what at least used to be called the iTunes Music Store. The biggest advantage for me for doing so over, say, buying from Amazon or directly from the artist’s site (which I often do, or buy from Bandcamp if available),…
Lees meerEmma Roth (Slashdot): Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase yea…
Lees meerPixelmator (Hacker News): Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple. […] Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the P…
Lees meerFlexibits (MacRumors): We’ve spent the last 4 years making Fantastical better than ever across Apple devices, and with version 4.0 we decided to go even bigger by finally bringing the world’s best calendar app to a Windows PC near you. For the Mac a…
Lees meerApple (transcript, MacRumors, MacStories): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year over year when…
Lees meerSophia Teutschler (Reddit): Hello, it’s me again! 👋 Did you hear? CoverSutra 4.0.1 is now available on the Mac App Store! Sophia Teutschler: It is a free upgrade for Version 3 customers. Previously: CoverSutra Open Source
Lees meerFrederic Lardinois (MacRumors, Hacker News): Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for the first time. Now in public preview, this will allow developers who build apps in Apple’s IDE with the assistance of Copilot. …
Lees meerApple (downloads): Xcode 16.1 includes SDKs for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, tvOS 18.1, watchOS 11.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1, and visionOS 2.1. The Xcode 16.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 7 and later, an…
Lees meerRomain Dillet (Hacker News, MacRumors): Remember when Apple blamed EU tech rules — and more specifically the Digital Markets Act — to justify the fact that Apple Intelligence wouldn’t be available in the European Union? Maybe that was just an attemp…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): With M4, MacBook Pro is up to 1.8x faster than the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 for tasks like editing gigapixel photos, and even more demanding workloads like rendering complex scenes in Blender are up to 3.4x faster.…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): All three chips are built using industry-leading, second-generation 3-nanometer technology, which improves performance and power efficiency. The CPUs across the M4 family feature the world’s fastest CPU core, deliveri…
Lees meerJason Snell: I got up and running in no time because I keep a USB drive permanently attached to my Mac Studio, and make sure it’s a complete clone of my drive. When I reinstalled macOS Sequoia, I was able to use Migration Assistant to restore from m…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon to pack an incredible amount of performance into an even smaller form of just 5 by 5 inches. […] Fo…
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