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Some great WWDC interview podcasts:

WWDC 2020 introduced a lot of exciting privacy changes in iOS 14. I thought it’d be fun to run through most of them here. For more details, I recommend you w...

Here are some of the new features covered in today’s Platforms State of the Union.

Happy dub-dub day. I’ve put together a WWDC20 Twitter Moment.

Finally, the last notebook to hold on to those Butterfly keyboards is safe to buy. As to be expected, this rendition of the Magic Keyboard (alongside the 16-...

After finally installing Catalina, I put together a little diagram that explains the new System volume.

According to Dark Sky’s help center, both the Android app (which has been removed from the Play Store) and certain features of the web version (“Maps, Foreca...

Yes.

Following the cancellation of everything (including public gatherings in Santa Clara County) and the WHO’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, Apple has p...

Zac Hall has written a Watch-specific roundup of 9to5Mac’s findings in leaked iOS 14 code. Here are some of my favorite bits.

Here’s a quick list of reasons you may want to stick with macOS Mojave.

Matt Birchler published a well-designed wishlist for watchOS 7 earlier this week.

From the Release Notes: Xcode 11.4 includes SDKs for iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4, watchOS 6.2, and macOS Catalina 10.15.4.

Mark Gurman:

Happy Mac Pro Day.

Let’s take a look at these two MacBook Pro options:

Whether you have iCloud enabled in “Settings > Books” on iOS, or you’re so last year and use iTunes like me, you’ve probably come across an EPUB file you’...

Happy MacBook Pro Day.

Stuck with iTunes like the rest of us Mojave users? Next time your album artwork refuses to update, try File > Create AAC Version. Wait for it to complete...

Save yourself a gesture and send yourself right to the homescreen when your shortcut has completed with this workaround from the r/shortcuts subreddit: In...

Community thoughts on the recent AirPods Pro announcement:

With two days left in October, Apple’s first holiday product announcement has arrived. Enter the AirPods Pro.

The release date of macOS Catalina might’ve been revealed through a marketing webpage that mentions Apple Arcade.

From the Safari 13.0 update description:

9to5Mac, Bradley Chambers (Apple @ Work: Why are IT professionals choosing Apple products when they used to ban them):

Apple just apologized for how they’ve handled Siri data in the past. Here’s how they’re fixing it.

Chance Miller has written a great roundup of all the things we know about the upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro. Here are some highlights.

That’s a really cute orangutan. 🦍

Raymond Wong at Mashable on the MacBook Adorable’s potato-quality webcam and performance:

Here are some things that were announced this morning at dub-dub that I think will change the way developers work on Apple platforms.

I’m excited to share a shortcut I’ve been working on for the last couple days that allows you to access various streaming links for tracks you find in the iO...

Save yourself a gesture and send yourself right to the homescreen when your shortcut has completed with this workaround from the r/shortcuts subreddit: In...

There’s a really cool Chrome extension I commented on DEV about called “Reload Extensions”, and it’s saved me from an extension loading bug (in addition to t...

Update: there’s a better way to do this!

System appearance media queries. Now with penguins.

I’ll call them “sheet”s here, but there are myriad ways to display secondary view controls for your users to focus on just that one thing they express their ...

Keeping with my recent theme of Cocoa, here’s a little tutorial on how you can use Sindre Sorhus’s magnificent Preferences and Defaults packages to save the ...

A gentle introduction to NSTableView.

There’s a really cool Chrome extension I commented on DEV about called “Reload Extensions”, and it’s saved me from an extension loading bug (in addition to t...

Update: there’s a better way to do this!

Matt Birchler published a well-designed wishlist for watchOS 7 earlier this week.

This preview release of Rebudget looks really promising:

The Shazam app has been giving away Apple Music during both Black Friday / Cyber Monday1 and now through December.

WWDC 2020 introduced a lot of exciting privacy changes in iOS 14. I thought it’d be fun to run through most of them here. For more details, I recommend you w...

Here are some of the new features covered in today’s Platforms State of the Union.

Happy dub-dub day. I’ve put together a WWDC20 Twitter Moment.

From the Release Notes: Xcode 11.4 includes SDKs for iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4, watchOS 6.2, and macOS Catalina 10.15.4.

Here are some things that were mentioned during the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC 2019.

Here are some things that were announced this morning at dub-dub that I think will change the way developers work on Apple platforms.

That’s a really cute orangutan. 🦍

WWDC 2020 introduced a lot of exciting privacy changes in iOS 14. I thought it’d be fun to run through most of them here. For more details, I recommend you w...

Here are some of the new features covered in today’s Platforms State of the Union.

Happy dub-dub day. I’ve put together a WWDC20 Twitter Moment.

Here are some things that were mentioned during the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC 2019.

Here are some things that were announced this morning at dub-dub that I think will change the way developers work on Apple platforms.

Zac Hall has written a Watch-specific roundup of 9to5Mac’s findings in leaked iOS 14 code. Here are some of my favorite bits.

Matt Birchler published a well-designed wishlist for watchOS 7 earlier this week.

Community thoughts on the recent AirPods Pro announcement:

With two days left in October, Apple’s first holiday product announcement has arrived. Enter the AirPods Pro.

I’ve put a lot of thought into the template that renders my page footer, filling it with conditionals and date filters and other Liquid craziness, and I thin...

Here are some npm modules I’ve been using lately and enjoying.

Finally, the last notebook to hold on to those Butterfly keyboards is safe to buy. As to be expected, this rendition of the Magic Keyboard (alongside the 16-...

After finally installing Catalina, I put together a little diagram that explains the new System volume.

Yes.

Here’s a quick list of reasons you may want to stick with macOS Mojave.

My laptop is very much space-constrained:

Michael Potuck: Twitter user @chaysegr shared a video showing his MacBook Pro booting up with the iconic chime. He shared the terminal command that you ca...

This preview release of Rebudget looks really promising:

I would like to inform you that macOS’s Safe Boot (hold down the Shift key on startup until you see a login prompt) can clear nearly 20 GB of logs and caches...

Happy Mac Pro Day.

Let’s take a look at these two MacBook Pro options:

Whether you have iCloud enabled in “Settings > Books” on iOS, or you’re so last year and use iTunes like me, you’ve probably come across an EPUB file you’...

Happy MacBook Pro Day.

Stuck with iTunes like the rest of us Mojave users? Next time your album artwork refuses to update, try File > Create AAC Version. Wait for it to complete...

The release date of macOS Catalina might’ve been revealed through a marketing webpage that mentions Apple Arcade.

Chance Miller has written a great roundup of all the things we know about the upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro. Here are some highlights.

I’ll call them “sheet”s here, but there are myriad ways to display secondary view controls for your users to focus on just that one thing they express their ...

Keeping with my recent theme of Cocoa, here’s a little tutorial on how you can use Sindre Sorhus’s magnificent Preferences and Defaults packages to save the ...

Raymond Wong at Mashable on the MacBook Adorable’s potato-quality webcam and performance:

A gentle introduction to NSTableView.

Today I learned how to fix broken iMovie imports when you can’t simply drag back into the project media, like when importing from an iPhone, which apparently...

Here are some things that were mentioned during the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC 2019.

System appearance media queries. Now with penguins.

I’ve started and quit quite a few different blogs, but none of them were about technology until 2017.

I’ve put a lot of thought into the template that renders my page footer, filling it with conditionals and date filters and other Liquid craziness, and I thin...

A gentle introduction to NSTableView.

WWDC 2020 introduced a lot of exciting privacy changes in iOS 14. I thought it’d be fun to run through most of them here. For more details, I recommend you w...

Finally, the last notebook to hold on to those Butterfly keyboards is safe to buy. As to be expected, this rendition of the Magic Keyboard (alongside the 16-...

According to Dark Sky’s help center, both the Android app (which has been removed from the Play Store) and certain features of the web version (“Maps, Foreca...

Yes.

Following the cancellation of everything (including public gatherings in Santa Clara County) and the WHO’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, Apple has p...

Happy Mac Pro Day.

Happy MacBook Pro Day.

With two days left in October, Apple’s first holiday product announcement has arrived. Enter the AirPods Pro.

From the Safari 13.0 update description:

Apple just apologized for how they’ve handled Siri data in the past. Here’s how they’re fixing it.

Chance Miller has written a great roundup of all the things we know about the upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro. Here are some highlights.

That’s a really cute orangutan. 🦍

Raymond Wong at Mashable on the MacBook Adorable’s potato-quality webcam and performance:

Here are some things that were mentioned during the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC 2019.

Here are some things that were announced this morning at dub-dub that I think will change the way developers work on Apple platforms.

Here are some npm modules I’ve been using lately and enjoying.

I’ve been tinkering with a used Linksys WRT1900AC running OpenWRT, and one of the first pitfalls for me involved the fact that by default, only the 2.4 GHz r...

Keeping with my recent theme of Cocoa, here’s a little tutorial on how you can use Sindre Sorhus’s magnificent Preferences and Defaults packages to save the ...

WWDC 2020 introduced a lot of exciting privacy changes in iOS 14. I thought it’d be fun to run through most of them here. For more details, I recommend you w...

Happy dub-dub day. I’ve put together a WWDC20 Twitter Moment.

Apple just apologized for how they’ve handled Siri data in the past. Here’s how they’re fixing it.

I’ve told you that if you want to build a small embedded hardware project, automate things in your household, or just purchase a cheap computer for its possi...

We already know that you should use a Raspberry Pi for most hardware projects. Now you may ask the question… Which One? You really should only be worrying ab...

If you want to build a small embedded hardware project, automate things in your household, or just purchase a cheap computer for its possibilities, you shoul...

Zac Hall has written a Watch-specific roundup of 9to5Mac’s findings in leaked iOS 14 code. Here are some of my favorite bits.

Matt Birchler published a well-designed wishlist for watchOS 7 earlier this week.

Mark Gurman:

The release date of macOS Catalina might’ve been revealed through a marketing webpage that mentions Apple Arcade.

Chance Miller has written a great roundup of all the things we know about the upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro. Here are some highlights.

Here’s a quick list of reasons you may want to stick with macOS Mojave.

From the Safari 13.0 update description:

I’ve told you that if you want to build a small embedded hardware project, automate things in your household, or just purchase a cheap computer for its possi...

We already know that you should use a Raspberry Pi for most hardware projects. Now you may ask the question… Which One? You really should only be worrying ab...

If you want to build a small embedded hardware project, automate things in your household, or just purchase a cheap computer for its possibilities, you shoul...

I’ll call them “sheet”s here, but there are myriad ways to display secondary view controls for your users to focus on just that one thing they express their ...

Keeping with my recent theme of Cocoa, here’s a little tutorial on how you can use Sindre Sorhus’s magnificent Preferences and Defaults packages to save the ...

A gentle introduction to NSTableView.

Background

Mozilla has a knowledge base article for RAM or CPU starved Firefox users. The multiprocess Firefox explaination stood out to me: Using multiple content p...

Setting media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled in “about:config” allows me to play/pause Overcast and YouTube at last (tested on Firefox 74 and macOS 10.15.4). Swit...

My laptop is very much space-constrained:

Michael Potuck: Twitter user @chaysegr shared a video showing his MacBook Pro booting up with the iconic chime. He shared the terminal command that you ca...

I’ve been tinkering with a used Linksys WRT1900AC running OpenWRT, and one of the first pitfalls for me involved the fact that by default, only the 2.4 GHz r...

Whether you have iCloud enabled in “Settings > Books” on iOS, or you’re so last year and use iTunes like me, you’ve probably come across an EPUB file you’...

Stuck with iTunes like the rest of us Mojave users? Next time your album artwork refuses to update, try File > Create AAC Version. Wait for it to complete...

Today I learned how to fix broken iMovie imports when you can’t simply drag back into the project media, like when importing from an iPhone, which apparently...

I would like to inform you that macOS’s Safe Boot (hold down the Shift key on startup until you see a login prompt) can clear nearly 20 GB of logs and caches...

Whether you have iCloud enabled in “Settings > Books” on iOS, or you’re so last year and use iTunes like me, you’ve probably come across an EPUB file you’...

Stuck with iTunes like the rest of us Mojave users? Next time your album artwork refuses to update, try File > Create AAC Version. Wait for it to complete...

Today I learned how to fix broken iMovie imports when you can’t simply drag back into the project media, like when importing from an iPhone, which apparently...

Some great WWDC interview podcasts:

WWDC 2020 introduced a lot of exciting privacy changes in iOS 14. I thought it’d be fun to run through most of them here. For more details, I recommend you w...

Here are some of the new features covered in today’s Platforms State of the Union.

Happy dub-dub day. I’ve put together a WWDC20 Twitter Moment.

Following the cancellation of everything (including public gatherings in Santa Clara County) and the WHO’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, Apple has p...

Here are some things that were mentioned during the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC 2019.

Here are some things that were announced this morning at dub-dub that I think will change the way developers work on Apple platforms.

Mozilla has a knowledge base article for RAM or CPU starved Firefox users. The multiprocess Firefox explaination stood out to me: Using multiple content p...

Setting media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled in “about:config” allows me to play/pause Overcast and YouTube at last (tested on Firefox 74 and macOS 10.15.4). Swit...

There’s a really cool Chrome extension I commented on DEV about called “Reload Extensions”, and it’s saved me from an extension loading bug (in addition to t...

Update: there’s a better way to do this!

My laptop is very much space-constrained:

From the Release Notes: Xcode 11.4 includes SDKs for iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4, watchOS 6.2, and macOS Catalina 10.15.4.

I’ll call them “sheet”s here, but there are myriad ways to display secondary view controls for your users to focus on just that one thing they express their ...

Keeping with my recent theme of Cocoa, here’s a little tutorial on how you can use Sindre Sorhus’s magnificent Preferences and Defaults packages to save the ...

A gentle introduction to NSTableView.

WWDC 2020 introduced a lot of exciting privacy changes in iOS 14. I thought it’d be fun to run through most of them here. For more details, I recommend you w...

Happy dub-dub day. I’ve put together a WWDC20 Twitter Moment.

I’m excited to share a shortcut I’ve been working on for the last couple days that allows you to access various streaming links for tracks you find in the iO...

Whether you have iCloud enabled in “Settings > Books” on iOS, or you’re so last year and use iTunes like me, you’ve probably come across an EPUB file you’...

Save yourself a gesture and send yourself right to the homescreen when your shortcut has completed with this workaround from the r/shortcuts subreddit: In...

Following the cancellation of everything (including public gatherings in Santa Clara County) and the WHO’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, Apple has p...

Zac Hall has written a Watch-specific roundup of 9to5Mac’s findings in leaked iOS 14 code. Here are some of my favorite bits.

Michael Potuck: Twitter user @chaysegr shared a video showing his MacBook Pro booting up with the iconic chime. He shared the terminal command that you ca...

I’m excited to share a shortcut I’ve been working on for the last couple days that allows you to access various streaming links for tracks you find in the iO...

From the Release Notes: Xcode 11.4 includes SDKs for iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4, watchOS 6.2, and macOS Catalina 10.15.4.

This preview release of Rebudget looks really promising:

Mark Gurman:

Zac Hall has written a Watch-specific roundup of 9to5Mac’s findings in leaked iOS 14 code. Here are some of my favorite bits.

Matt Birchler published a well-designed wishlist for watchOS 7 earlier this week.

Whether I’m rickrolling myself seems to have a negative correlation with the popping frequency of my laptop’s speakers.