Archive for 2015

Twitter for Mac 4.0 (2)December 31, 2015
WWDR Intermediate Certificate Expiration (4)December 30, 2015
Netflix’s New Compression Strategy December 23, 2015
Swift Proposal for Default Final (9)December 21, 2015
How Gzip Trumps Everything (1)December 21, 2015
Property-Based Testing of a Synchronization Service December 21, 2015
Six Windows 10 Features Apple Should Steal (4)December 21, 2015
Core Data Threading Demystified (1)December 20, 2015
MVVM Is Not Very Good (2)December 20, 2015
Swift Standard Library Protocols December 20, 2015
Phil Schiller Takes Over the App Stores (1)December 18, 2015
USB-C (2)December 17, 2015
Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, iMovie ’08, and Final Cut Pro X December 17, 2015
More Responsive WebKit Tapping on iOS December 17, 2015
The First Spotlight Interface December 17, 2015
iCloud Music Library’s Metadata December 17, 2015
OSSpinLock Is Unsafe (8)December 16, 2015
precondition vs. assert in Swift (1)December 16, 2015
A Domain Move Disaster December 16, 2015
Lightbulb DRM (8)December 16, 2015
Swift Type Constrained Extensions December 16, 2015
MacKeeper Exposes Data on 13 Million Customers December 16, 2015
Craig Federighi on Swift (2)December 15, 2015
Core Data Book (1)December 14, 2015
A Study of Stack Overflow Careers (2)December 14, 2015
Record Adobe Revenue (1)December 14, 2015
Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a Net (7)December 12, 2015
Apple Pushes iPhone 6s Pop-up Ads to App Store (18)December 12, 2015
Humble Object Pattern in Swift (2)December 12, 2015
Comcast Stream TV and Net Neutrality December 11, 2015
NSFileHandle’s Indeterminable readabilityHandler December 11, 2015
The Grand Unified Theory of Apple Products December 11, 2015
Swift’s Lazy Weak References December 11, 2015
Double Core Data Accessors by Omitting @NSManaged December 11, 2015
Improving Readabilty With Swift Extensions December 10, 2015
Mac OS X 10.11.2 (7)December 10, 2015
iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case (4)December 10, 2015
Not Your Mac, Anymore (1)December 10, 2015
Swift Plans (4)December 9, 2015
Moving to Medium, Preserving Permalinks December 9, 2015
tvOS 9.1 Enables Remote App (2)December 9, 2015
Apple Maps Used Three Times as Often (4)December 9, 2015
iOS 9.2 (5)December 9, 2015
Sunsetting Carousel and Mailbox December 8, 2015
Low-Hanging Fruit (8)December 8, 2015
IBM’s Swift Sandbox December 5, 2015
Edit Distance and Edit Steps December 4, 2015
Counting Steps With Multiple Devices December 4, 2015
The Search for a Faster CRC32 December 4, 2015
The TTY Demystified December 4, 2015
Launching PDF Expert for Mac December 4, 2015
Apple Open Sources Swift (5)December 3, 2015
Variable Capture and Loops December 3, 2015
Put Save As Back on the File Menu (2)December 3, 2015
The Secret Power of “Read It Later” Apps (1)December 3, 2015
The End of Dynamic Languages (8)December 3, 2015
The Success of ARM December 3, 2015
The Apple Pencil (1)December 3, 2015
Adobe Animate CC December 2, 2015
Generating Core Data Swift (1)December 2, 2015
Flickr’s Experience With iOS 9 December 2, 2015
Swift and C Libraries December 2, 2015
Sketch Leaving the Mac App Store (23)December 1, 2015
Optimizing Facebook for iOS Start Time November 30, 2015
Swift init() November 30, 2015
Done With iCloud Photo Library (5)November 30, 2015
Favorite Terrible Programming Languages (2)November 30, 2015
Surprising Complexity Inside Apple’s Power Adapter November 30, 2015
Using the Old Remote and Keyboard With Apple TV 4 (2)November 29, 2015
Microsoft’s Astoria Proves Too Complex November 29, 2015
Covariance and Contravariance November 29, 2015
The Worst App November 29, 2015
Longevity of the Retina MacBook Pro (1)November 29, 2015
Quicken 2015 Switches From Mac App Store to Direct Updates (3)November 24, 2015
Pushing to the Git Working Copy on a Web Server November 24, 2015
An Ode to Kai’s Power Goo November 24, 2015
Ranchero SpotLight November 24, 2015
How Swift Implements Unowned and Weak References (2)November 24, 2015
Dangers of NeXTSTEP Plists (3)November 24, 2015
Lightroom 6.3 Fixes Import Dialog, Flickr (1)November 22, 2015
Not on the Mac App Store (5)November 18, 2015
A Look Into Realm’s Core DB Engine November 16, 2015
Improved App Store Search November 16, 2015
Interstellar Functional Reactive Framework November 16, 2015
Nimble Matcher Framework November 16, 2015
Ads Use Inaudible Sound to Link Your Devices November 16, 2015
Saving the iPad November 15, 2015
Beware of Apple Mail Resizing Outgoing Images (3)November 15, 2015
How Facebook’s Safety Check Works November 15, 2015
What Goes Up November 14, 2015
Where “where” May Be Used in Swift (1)November 14, 2015
Swiping to Dismiss Safari View Controller November 14, 2015
Git Diff for Binary Property List Files November 14, 2015
The Depressing Effect of Bug Bounties November 14, 2015
Gene Amdahl, RIP November 14, 2015
Apple Forbids Sideloading f.lux (12)November 13, 2015
Castro 1.5 November 12, 2015
iPad Pro Reviews (2)November 12, 2015
Decoding Old Nibs: a Sad Tale of Vendor Lock-in and Abandonment (3)November 12, 2015
No One Minding the Store (43)November 12, 2015
Sideloading f.lux on iOS (4)November 11, 2015
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (1)November 11, 2015
On Keyboards and Thinness (1)November 11, 2015
Microsoft Band 2 November 10, 2015
Apple on Hamburger Menus (4)November 10, 2015
Apple’s Beautiful Construction Barriers November 10, 2015
George Boole: a 200-Year View November 10, 2015
Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design (3)November 10, 2015
The Mac App Store: With Convenience Comes Compromise (4)November 10, 2015
The New Favicon November 8, 2015
The Java Deserialization Bug and NSSecureCoding (2)November 8, 2015
Flickr for iOS 9 (1)November 6, 2015
Why Is Swift’s String API So Hard? November 6, 2015
Shoot the Heap November 6, 2015
Home File Sharing via Flash Drive (1)November 6, 2015
Apps Sharing User Data (3)November 6, 2015
How Swift Implements Generics November 6, 2015
Google Engineer Reviews USB-C Cables That Don’t Work November 5, 2015
Mail’s Vanishing Rules Actions November 5, 2015
Apple News Format (1)November 5, 2015
Dropbox API v2 Drops Objective-C SDK (2)November 5, 2015
WebKit Shadow DOM API and the State of Web Type November 5, 2015
Facebook’s Code Quality Problem (5)November 4, 2015
Rewriting a Mac App in Swift November 4, 2015
MacUpdate Adware Installers (2)November 4, 2015
Using 3D Touch to Create a Digital Scale November 4, 2015
OneDrive Reduces Free Storage to 5 GB, Maximum to 1 TB (1)November 3, 2015
Chuck Forsberg, RIP November 3, 2015
Apple TV 4 (5)November 3, 2015
SuperDuper’s El Capitan Issues November 2, 2015
SGI Screen Fonts Converted for Mac OS X November 2, 2015
OmniFocus 2.9 for iOS November 2, 2015
If-Let Assignment Operator November 2, 2015
When Open Does Not Return an Object Reference (1)October 28, 2015
When Is Zip Not Zip? October 28, 2015
Inside Apple’s Perfectionism Machine (1)October 28, 2015
Blind Camera Shootout October 27, 2015
Unicode Date Formats, YYYY?! October 27, 2015
Reactions to the First iPod (2)October 27, 2015
Siri and Content Reminders in iOS 9 October 27, 2015
The iPhone 6s Plus and 3D Touch October 27, 2015
The Best Underutilized and Poorly Implemented Accessibility Feature (1)October 26, 2015
Dynamic Frameworks and App Launch Times October 26, 2015
BookmarkData Exposed (1)October 26, 2015
Swift’s @noescape Attribute October 26, 2015
The Story of NetNewsWire (1)October 26, 2015
Dark Corners of Unicode October 23, 2015
Clang Is the Next WebKit (4)October 23, 2015
Lisp Implemented in sed and Make October 23, 2015
Sorkin and Boyle’s “Steve Jobs” October 23, 2015
arqfs October 23, 2015
Real-time Resizing of Flickr Images Using GPUs (3)October 22, 2015
The 10 Best Feed Readers (3)October 22, 2015
MVVM in Swift October 22, 2015
GCD Sugar for Swift October 22, 2015
Searching Apple’s Stores With Google October 22, 2015
Turning Off iCloud Photo Library (6)October 21, 2015
B2 Cloud Storage (1)October 21, 2015
Venice (a.k.a. SwiftGo) October 21, 2015
No Longer Good, Better, Best (4)October 21, 2015
When Businesses Grow to Become Dysfunctional (1)October 21, 2015
How Both TCP and Ethernet Checksums Fail (1)October 20, 2015
Dropbox Paper (1)October 20, 2015
iOS Apps That Collect Users’ Personal Info (3)October 20, 2015
iOS Diagnostics & Usage Data (2)October 20, 2015
String Interfaces (1)October 20, 2015
Options Dictionaries vs. Sets of Enums (3)October 19, 2015
Big iWork Update (3)October 19, 2015
Tesla’s OS 7 Interface Update (6)October 19, 2015
El Capitan License in Plain English October 19, 2015
Adding “Save PDF to iBooks” Support (1)October 19, 2015
Customizing Columns in OmniFocus 2.3 October 15, 2015
Swift Casting With _ObjectiveCBridgeable October 15, 2015
Quickly Dimming the iPhone Screen (4)October 15, 2015
Empty Parentheses Are Not “No Parameters” in (Objective-)C (1)October 15, 2015
Apple’s Processor Advantage October 15, 2015
MallocNanoZone=1 Makes for Hard Debugging (1)October 15, 2015
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (6)October 14, 2015
Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App (4)October 14, 2015
That Would Never Happen (1)October 14, 2015
Non-Payment for Bundle Sales October 14, 2015
FogBugz, JIRA, and Wasabi (5)October 13, 2015
Coding Literacy (4)October 13, 2015
More International Taxes on Software Sales (2)October 13, 2015
Disk Utility in El Capitan (6)October 13, 2015
Apple’s New Magic Keyboard, Mouse, and Trackpad (1)October 13, 2015
Why the Floppy Disk Is Still Used Today (1)October 11, 2015
Lightroom 6.2’s Import Dialog (1)October 11, 2015
New FogBugz Security Features October 11, 2015
NSData, My Old Friend (1)October 11, 2015
Gatekeeper Exploit (1)October 9, 2015
“What do you think?” (1)October 9, 2015
Historical Photos October 9, 2015
iOS 9 Universal Links and Forgotten Passwords October 9, 2015
Wi-Fi Calling (4)October 9, 2015
Overcast 2 (5)October 9, 2015
Apple and Privacy October 8, 2015
Jitterdämmerung (2)October 8, 2015
The State of Apple Maps (5)October 8, 2015
My iPhone 6s and iOS 9 Experience (26)October 8, 2015
My El Capitan Experience (8)October 8, 2015
Apple News (2)October 7, 2015
Core Data in El Capitan October 7, 2015
LZFSE Disk Images in El Capitan (4)October 7, 2015
Tweetbot 4 for iOS and Tweetbot 2.1 for Mac (5)October 7, 2015
Developing With 3D Touch (1)October 6, 2015
What the Heck Is a Monad (9)October 5, 2015
Apps Removed From the App Store’s “Purchased” Tab (1)October 4, 2015
Safari’s Responsive Design Mode October 4, 2015
Apple’s 30% App Store Fee on Refunds (1)October 4, 2015
Deprecating Instapaper Mobilizer October 4, 2015
Alex King, RIP October 4, 2015
FBSimulatorControl September 25, 2015
Swizzling With Swift September 25, 2015
DirectLinks Safari Extension September 25, 2015
Using Xcode Targets September 25, 2015
Which iOS Content Blocker is the Fastest? September 25, 2015
iOS 9 Adds Wi-Fi Assist September 25, 2015
Rosyna Needs Help September 24, 2015
Swift 2.1 September 24, 2015
Swift 2 Bloat in the Twitter App (1)September 24, 2015
The iOS Status Bar (1)September 24, 2015
Custom Swift Pattern Matching Operators September 24, 2015
Counting Git Objects With Bitmap Indexes September 24, 2015
Apple Music for Android (1)September 24, 2015
iPhones 6s Reviews September 23, 2015
Brotli (1)September 23, 2015
San Francisco Quotation Marks (1)September 23, 2015
The Big Nerd Ranch Core Data Stack September 23, 2015
The Lost Apple Logos You’ve Never Seen September 22, 2015
Twitter and Universal Links (1)September 22, 2015
XcodeGhost (2)September 22, 2015
How to Turn iOS 9’s Keyboard Back to All Caps (2)September 19, 2015
Peace iOS 9 Content Blocker (5)September 19, 2015
iOS 9 Reviews September 19, 2015
Bank of America Adds Touch ID Support September 19, 2015
On Demand Resources and Games September 19, 2015
Objective-C Is Our Generation’s COBOL (7)September 18, 2015
Facebook “Like” Button Tracking (1)September 18, 2015
Bitcode Breaks 3rd-Party Crash Reporters September 18, 2015
Swift 2 Generic Support for @objc Protocols September 18, 2015
Fixing Garbled Fonts on Apple Support Pages September 16, 2015
Parsing Mach-O Files (1)September 15, 2015
Microsoft Excel 2016 for Mac Keyboard Shortcuts (3)September 15, 2015
Subscription iPhones September 14, 2015
System Integrity Protection Documentation and Bugs (1)September 14, 2015
Problems With iOS’s Flat Design (2)September 14, 2015
Learning Lessons The Hard Way September 14, 2015
Backdooring JavaScript Using Minifier Bugs September 14, 2015
Electronic Arts’s Recent App Store Removals (3)September 13, 2015
Amazon Web Services in Plain English September 13, 2015
Computer Science Courses that Don’t Exist, But Should September 13, 2015
Adrian Frutiger, RIP (2)September 13, 2015
tvOS and the New Apple TV (1)September 12, 2015
Now Allowed to Launch Apps From Today Widgets September 12, 2015
Your App Is Collection of Tiny Details September 12, 2015
AirPlay Overhaul for iOS 9 September 12, 2015
Apple/Google Hiring Lawsuit Finally Settled (1)September 11, 2015
Lyft Goes Swift (2)September 11, 2015
Macworld UK Ends Print Magazine September 11, 2015
Getting a New iPhone (9)September 11, 2015
iPhone 6s and 3D Touch (3)September 10, 2015
iPad Pro (10)September 10, 2015
Microsoft Excel Tips September 9, 2015
Apple Tangles With U.S. Over iMessage Data Access (1)September 9, 2015
Wikipedia Editors Uncover Extortion Scam September 9, 2015
Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter Says Cable Unplugged (When Not) (2)September 9, 2015
Pushing on the Pull Door September 8, 2015
Why You Should Upgrade (On Your Own Terms) September 8, 2015
NSBackgroundActivityScheduler September 8, 2015
San Francisco’s Rider-Friendly Transit Map September 8, 2015
SiriScript (2)September 8, 2015
qtmodernizer (1)September 4, 2015
Struct Semantics in Swift September 4, 2015
Lessons Learned From Reading Postmortems September 4, 2015
Solving Wi-Fi Coverage Problems September 4, 2015
NetNewsWire 4.0 (7)September 3, 2015
Migrating to a New Mac in the Real World September 3, 2015
AWS Device Farm September 3, 2015
Apple Loses German Top Court Case on Swipe-to-Unlock Patent September 3, 2015
Why Dependent Types Matter (2)September 3, 2015
You Don’t Need Motivation September 2, 2015
Go at Basecamp September 2, 2015
Adware Simulates Mouse Events to Access Keychain (5)September 2, 2015
Google’s New Logo September 2, 2015
Swift Protocols (7)September 1, 2015
How and Why We Designed Lucida September 1, 2015
What Publishers Should Know About iOS 9 September 1, 2015
GasBuddy’s New Privacy Policy September 1, 2015
How to Use -updateConstraints September 1, 2015
Sony A7R II Focus Accuracy September 1, 2015
NSProgress Enhancements (2)August 31, 2015
Objective-C to Swift Converters August 31, 2015
6 Only-for-iPad Gestures August 31, 2015
Details in the iOS App Store App (1)August 31, 2015
Permanently Hide the iCloud Column in iTunes August 31, 2015
Skylake August 31, 2015
Live Help Menu Searching via NSUserInterfaceItemSearching (3)August 28, 2015
Type Profiling and Code Coverage Profiling for JavaScript August 28, 2015
AWS Privilege Separation August 28, 2015
Shipping an App With App Transport Security (4)August 28, 2015
The Facebook App’s 18,000 Classes (2)August 28, 2015
Capturing Swift Error Context (2)August 27, 2015
A Salute to Solo Programmers (5)August 27, 2015
Facebook App Changes iOS System Share Sheets (1)August 27, 2015
Java Is Magic: the Gathering (or Poker) and Haskell Is Go (the Game) August 27, 2015
Swift 2 Beta 6 (1)August 27, 2015
The Death of Scripting (6)August 27, 2015
Safer Block-based NSNotificationCenter API August 26, 2015
Common Android Lock Patterns August 26, 2015
How to Survive Working at Home (3)August 26, 2015
tpwn Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (1)August 26, 2015
How to See Your iPhone’s Precise Signal Strength August 26, 2015
Ways to Think About Cars August 23, 2015
[Objective] C++: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (2)August 23, 2015
The Harmful Consequences of Postel’s Maxim (4)August 23, 2015
Bloom Filters August 23, 2015
CardDAV at FastMail August 23, 2015
Checking for El Capitan August 22, 2015
Git as a Document Format August 22, 2015
Lazy Filters and Maps August 22, 2015
Swift Funtime August 22, 2015
Making Tab-Switching and Scrolling Faster in OmniFocus for Mac August 22, 2015
How Streaming Music Royalties Are Calculated August 21, 2015
Swift Pattern Matching in Detail August 21, 2015
Sandboxing Impression August 21, 2015
Cross-Platform UI in GitHub Desktop August 21, 2015
GitUp 1.0 Is Open Source August 21, 2015
Acorn 5 August 20, 2015
Go 1.5 August 20, 2015
Tonic: Data Visualizing REPL for Node August 20, 2015
Top 10 Worst C# Features (1)August 19, 2015
WebKit Backdrop Filters August 19, 2015
Generic “Functions” in Objective-C August 19, 2015
Creating a Kill-Switched VPN With PIA and Little Snitch August 19, 2015
Ripping CDs and Backing Up Content Is Illegal in the UK August 19, 2015
Testing Swift’s ErrorType August 19, 2015
A Eulogy for Objective-C (4)August 18, 2015
The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work (1)August 18, 2015
Restoring an Apple TV via iTunes August 18, 2015
Steve Jobs’s Interview With Red Herring, 1996 August 18, 2015
Awful Behavior From QuickBooks Online August 18, 2015
Thunderstrike 2 August 17, 2015
Twitter Removes 140-Character Limit From Direct Messages (3)August 17, 2015
Windows 10’s New Licensing Scheme August 17, 2015
Microsoft WinObjC (2)August 17, 2015
AppHub August 17, 2015
iCloud Can Now Restore Contacts, Calendars, and Reminders (3)August 17, 2015
Mac OS X 10.11 Removes /usr/bin/lockfile August 17, 2015
Xcode Build Setting Transformations (3)August 16, 2015
How Your Phone’s Battery Life Can Be Used to Invade Your Privacy (2)August 16, 2015
Apple Pay to the Rescue August 16, 2015
Fearing an Apple TV Service (1)August 16, 2015
How Many Old Apple Devices Can’t Get Security Updates? August 16, 2015
Finding iPad’s Future (19)August 15, 2015
The Developer’s MacBook (9)August 15, 2015
Dispatch Async to Main Queue and Modal Windows (2)August 15, 2015
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (1)August 15, 2015
Modern Web Ad Blocking (2)August 14, 2015
Google and Alphabet August 14, 2015
The Mac App Store, Paid Upgrades, and Trials (2)August 14, 2015
Peak App Care August 14, 2015
Planes, “Planes”, and Automated Fare Pricing August 14, 2015
An Xcode Plug-in for Unsmoothed Text (1)August 14, 2015
Student Loses Facebook Internship After Pointing Out Privacy Flaws (1)August 14, 2015
Objective-Swift (3)August 13, 2015
Swift Protocols, Arrays, and Casting (3)August 3, 2015
Sorting Algorithm Animations August 2, 2015
Windows 10’s Wi-Fi Sense August 2, 2015
Safari vs. Chrome: Power Consumption (7)August 1, 2015
The Appsmiths (2)August 1, 2015
A Catalog of Functional Refactorings August 1, 2015
Swift Array Performance (8)August 1, 2015
NSTaggedPointerString (1)July 31, 2015
Address Sanitizer July 31, 2015
Objective-C Improvements and Swift Interoperability July 31, 2015
Bitcode July 31, 2015
Falsehoods Programmers Believe (2)July 31, 2015
Apple Music Matches Files With Metadata Only (1)July 31, 2015
SQLite FTS5 July 31, 2015
Disabling Versions and Reclaiming Space (2)July 30, 2015
Dixie July 30, 2015
How GameplayKit AI Works July 30, 2015
UIKonf 2015 Videos July 30, 2015
Apple’s Plan for More Connected Apps (1)July 30, 2015
App Store Invoice JavaScript Injection (1)July 29, 2015
Google Cloud Storage Nearline Graduates to General Availability July 29, 2015
NSValue and Boxed Expressions July 29, 2015
The Force Touch Trackpad July 29, 2015
Coping With iTunes Features That Have Disappeared July 29, 2015
Phasing Out Google+ (1)July 29, 2015
Why JSON Doesn’t Have Comments July 28, 2015
Flickr Pro Is Back July 28, 2015
Intel Compute Stick (2)July 28, 2015
Checking If Mission Control Is Active July 28, 2015
Swift Whole Module Optimization July 28, 2015
Safari 9’s Responsive Web Design Mode July 27, 2015
Apple at Its Most Pompous (5)July 27, 2015
Ember Leaves the Mac App Store July 27, 2015
Linked Lists, Enums, Value Types and Identity (2)July 27, 2015
Security and Privacy Changes in iOS 9 (4)July 24, 2015
Weak and Unowned References in Swift (5)July 24, 2015
Code Signing in El Capitan July 24, 2015
Don’t Use GUIDs As Passwords (2)July 24, 2015
DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability July 24, 2015
Strings in Swift 2 (2)July 24, 2015
Dynamic Swift (9)July 23, 2015
init? vs. init throws (1)July 23, 2015
Perl 6 Due This Year (1)July 23, 2015
Keyboard Maestro 7 (2)July 23, 2015
The Lagging Mac App Store (2)July 23, 2015
Web Design: The First 100 Years July 23, 2015
Apple Music: Problems Adding Albums, Songs Deleted (5)July 22, 2015
iOS 9 to Block Abuses of -canOpenURL: (2)July 22, 2015
Flashlight Brightens Up Spotlight in Yosemite (1)July 22, 2015
Every Swift Value Type Should Be Equatable July 22, 2015
Higher Order Functions in Swift 2 July 22, 2015
North America Out of New IPv4 Addresses July 22, 2015
Removing Previous Versions of Files July 22, 2015
Differential Synchronization July 21, 2015
Dictation Buffer Updates July 21, 2015
xonsh Shell July 21, 2015
Embrace Cross-posting (5)July 21, 2015
My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team July 21, 2015
Java Strings No Longer Share Storage (1)July 20, 2015
FastMail Enables IMAP Push for iOS (3)July 20, 2015
Apple vs. the PC Industry July 20, 2015
Photos for Mac 1.1 (1)July 20, 2015
App Transport Security (7)July 17, 2015
FairPlay Streaming July 17, 2015
Hardware Audio Encoding, AVMovie Brings Back QuickTime Features July 17, 2015
Evan Williams on Twitter Third-party Devs July 17, 2015
Security-Scoped Bookmarks and .webarchive Files (1)July 17, 2015
UI Testing With Xcode 7 July 17, 2015
Unpacking Git Packfiles July 16, 2015
Obergefell v. Hodges: the Database Engineering Perspective July 16, 2015
Feeder 3.0 (1)July 16, 2015
Cmd-Number Shortcuts for Safari 9 (3)July 16, 2015
Apple Watch and Water July 15, 2015
How iCloud Drive Deletes Your Files Without Warning (7)July 15, 2015
Adobe Replaces “Rank and Yank” With “Check In” July 15, 2015
Perfect App Store Screenshots (1)July 15, 2015
MAIKit: Framework for Sharing Code Between iOS and OS X July 15, 2015
Font Parsing Vulnerabilities (1)July 15, 2015
iPod touch 6th Generation July 15, 2015
WebKit Hacking From the Bleeding Edge July 14, 2015
Python 3.5: async and await (2)July 14, 2015
Third Hacking Team Flash Zero-Day Found July 14, 2015
AppleEventBridge: Native AppleScripting Support for Swift (1)July 14, 2015
92% of Smartphone Profits (2)July 14, 2015
On Negative App Store Reviews During Betas of iOS and OS X July 14, 2015
Contacts Framework Identifiers (2)July 13, 2015
Apple Music: Connect (2)July 12, 2015
Apple Music: For You (1)July 12, 2015
Apple Music: Beats 1 and AirPlay July 12, 2015
Apple Music: Home Sharing and Families July 12, 2015
Apple Music: iTunes Match and DRM July 12, 2015
Apple Music: iTunes 12.2 and iCloud Music Library July 12, 2015
Apple Music: General (1)July 12, 2015
Safari Content Blocker and Web Advertising (9)July 12, 2015
System Integrity Protection (a.k.a. Rootless) (8)July 12, 2015
Mac OS X 10.10.4 and Apple TV (5)July 12, 2015
CSS Font Family for San Francisco (1)July 11, 2015
ComiXology 3.7 Makes the Best of the Amazon/Apple Situation (3)July 7, 2015
A Complete History of Unix, in One GitHub Repo July 7, 2015
Dash 3 July 7, 2015
VoodooPad Cryptography Overview July 7, 2015
GPS in Airplane Mode (4)July 5, 2015
Installing Fonts on iOS (1)July 5, 2015
Another Downside of Automatic App Updating (4)July 5, 2015
Using Siri (5)July 3, 2015
Arq Supports Amazon Cloud Drive Backup (2)July 3, 2015
Twitterrific’s New Facial Detection July 3, 2015
Should I Use a Swift Struct or a Class? (2)July 3, 2015
The Age of Writing iOS Apps for Love (2)June 30, 2015
Mac OS X 10.10.4 “Improves Networking Reliability” June 30, 2015
Debugging Exceptions in Xcode June 30, 2015
Safari Is the New IE (6)June 30, 2015
Map Kit Outside of the Mac App Store (2)June 25, 2015
All American Civil War Games Removed From the App Store (1)June 25, 2015
iOS 9 Space Savings (1)June 25, 2015
Killing Off Wasabi (2)June 25, 2015
Swift 2: SIMD June 25, 2015
“Send <appname> Feedback” Sends to Apple June 23, 2015
Avoid Download Issues With Mac App Store Purchases June 23, 2015
10-Year-Old MySQL Bug (2)June 23, 2015
Lightroom 6.1 Doesn’t Get New Features (3)June 23, 2015
Swift Protocols Question (6)June 22, 2015
Eleven Stupid Backup Strategies June 22, 2015
Other New Swift 2 Features (1)June 22, 2015
WebAssembly June 22, 2015
Taylor Swift vs. Apple Music (2)June 22, 2015
More Problems With iCloud Photo Library Uploads (3)June 21, 2015
Copying Coordinates With Long Press in Compass (4)June 21, 2015
San Francisco Fonts (1)June 19, 2015
Instacast Discontinued (2)June 19, 2015
Swift 2 Error Handling, Continued (6)June 19, 2015
Core Data Bugs (3)June 18, 2015
Editorial 1.2 (1)June 18, 2015
App Store Search Is Still Depressing (1)June 18, 2015
Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers (1)June 18, 2015
How Crash Bandicoot Was Fit Into 2MB of RAM June 18, 2015
I Do Not Agree to Your Terms June 17, 2015
XARA: Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access (2)June 17, 2015
Swift 2 Error Handling in Practice (4)June 12, 2015
Swift Libraries Not Included in iOS 9 or El Capitan (4)June 12, 2015
The Return of the iPad (2)June 12, 2015
Freemium Is Hard June 12, 2015
Hermann Zapf, RIP (1)June 12, 2015
Why I Don’t Rely on Time Machine (4)June 12, 2015
OmniFocus Push-Triggered Sync June 11, 2015
iCloud Passwords in Mail, Device Passwords, and Safari Passwords (3)June 11, 2015
iOS 9 Keyboard (2)June 11, 2015
WWDC 2015 Links (8)June 9, 2015
The Beginning of the End for Smartphone Subsidies? (13)June 5, 2015
The State of iOS June 5, 2015
Yahoo Pipes Shuts Down June 5, 2015
Micro Snitch 1.0 (7)June 4, 2015
What Happened to SourceForge? (1)June 4, 2015
MirrorType June 4, 2015
Why I Don’t Write Swift (4)June 4, 2015
Tim Cook on Encryption, Privacy (1)June 3, 2015
Thunderbolt 3 (1)June 3, 2015
Swift Subscripts Support Labeled Parameters June 2, 2015
Web Decay Graph June 2, 2015
Mac Firmware Security Is Completely Broken (6)June 2, 2015
Apple Shifts to Editorially Curated Lists on App Store June 2, 2015
Fix Your Mac With One Weird Trick June 2, 2015
@weakify and @strongify Macros (1)June 1, 2015
How Not to Crash #7: Dealing With Nothing June 1, 2015
Apple Watch Heart Rate Sensor Errors (1)June 1, 2015
OSStatus.com June 1, 2015
Apple Notes May 30, 2015
Google Photos May 29, 2015
The Unofficial Guide to xcconfig Files (5)May 29, 2015
Network Request Templating May 29, 2015
Bugshot Relaunches as Pinpoint May 29, 2015
Using Siri to Work Around iMessage Crash (2)May 29, 2015
TextExpander 5 and Notification Center Privacy (1)May 28, 2015
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FileVault 2 Deferred Enablement in Yosemite January 31, 2015
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