Halide: One Year Later
Ben Sandofsky (tweet): For indie developers, a healthy way to look at profits is opportunity cost. If you took the hours spent on your own app and applied those toward freelancing, would you make more...
View ArticlemacOS 10.13.5
Howard Oakley (MacRumors): The only new user feature identified by Apple is Messages in iCloud, which Apple states is a feature of High Sierra only; there is no comparable option in the Sierra version...
View Article10 Strikes and You’re Out
John Gruber: I had no idea until I looked into it last weekend, but it turns out this feature is far more clever than I realized, and it’s highly unlikely that your kids or jackass drinking buddies...
View ArticleDiffer: Swift Library to Generate Differences and Patches Between Collections
Tony Arnold: Differ generates the differences between Collection instances (this includes Strings!). It uses a fast algorithm (O((N+M)*D)) to do this. […] Utilities for updating UITableView and...
View ArticleiPhone 6 Bendgate and Touch Disease
Jason Koebler (tweet, ArsTechnica, Hacker News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): The company found that the iPhone 6 is 3.3 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, and the iPhone 6 Plus is 7.2 times more...
View ArticleiMac Pro VESA Mounting Screws
Joe Rossignol (tweet): Quinn Nelson, host of the popular YouTube channel Snazzy Labs, has shared a new video that appears to suggest the iMac Pro’s user-installable VESA mounting kit uses cheap screws...
View ArticlemacOS Special-Casing to Keep Apps Working
Zhuowei Zhang (Hacker News): What do Photoshop, Matlab, Panic Transmit, and Eclipse have in common? They are among the 299 apps for which macOS applies compatibility fixes. Here’s the full list of...
View ArticleMac and iOS Automation History
Jordan McMahon: As it turns out, Jobs was gauging the room to see who was passionate enough about their work to fight for it. Those were the people he wanted to keep. Soghoian passed the test. […] As...
View ArticleFacebook’s GDPR-Related Dark Patterns
Francis Irving: Facebook actually put fake red dots to try and make you think you have messages even if you don’t, so you agree to their tracking more hastily. Read full complaint against Facebook -...
View ArticleApple’s Emoji Search is Bad
Jeremy Burge: At this stage you might think it’s simply a matter of learning the correct name for each emoji, so you know how to start a search. That is sadly not the case. […] Sorting is a challenge,...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Echo Eavesdropping Story
Jason Snell (Hacker News): The story of an Amazon Echo sending a private conversation to a woman’s contacts has been making the rounds since it showed up in a local news story earlier this week....
View ArticleApple vs. My Daughter’s iPad
Erica Sadun (tweet): The other day, Apple locked her out of her iCloud account and her iPad. We don’t know why. The Apple support people don’t know why. I think it may have to do with when I modernized...
View Article1Password 7 for Mac
Dave Teare: While in your browser, mini will automatically suggest the items you’re most likely to need. And mini doesn’t limit itself to just browsers. With our new app integration we’ll automatically...
View ArticleOmniFocus 3 for iOS
Brent Simmons: OmniFocus for iOS is now celebrating ten years on the App Store — it’s been there since day one, and we’ve been so proud to see it earn its status as the trusted to-do list app. This...
View ArticleMicrosoft Acquires GitHub
Microsoft (Hacker News): Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers...
View ArticleWWDC 2018 Links
General: Keynote (Hacker News) The Developer Migration (via CNET) Schedule Videos Beta Downloads (Xcode 10, Xcode 10 Release Notes) Videos Downloader and App Sample Code Downloader David Sinclair’s...
View ArticleApple Announces Marzipan for 2019
Mark Gurman (tweet): During its annual developer conference, the Cupertino, California-based company said the two app platforms will merge next year, allowing apps built for its iOS mobile operating...
View ArticleMac App Store Sandboxing, IAP Trials, Multiplatform Services
John Voorhees: As the changes announced implicitly acknowledge though, the problems with the Mac App Store run deeper than its design. The Mac App Store has suffered since its inception from editorial...
View ArticleFacebook-WhatsApp Turmoil Takeaway
Felix Salmon: WhatsApp wasn’t an easy acquisition for Zuckerberg, because the two apps have very different founding principles. Koum, who grew up in Ukraine, believes deeply in privacy; Zuckerberg...
View ArticleSwift 4.2
Ole Begemann: I made a “What’s new in Swift 4.2” playground for Xcode 10: new collection algorithms, random numbers, enumerating enum cases, and more. Ole Begemann: Working with random numbers in Swift...
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