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This is entirely ignoring the value third party developers bring to Apple's platforms. I'd argue Apple has hugely benefited from a robust selection of third party apps available vi…

I don't think people being unemployed and staying at home due to a global pandemic is remotely comparable to a situation where people were financially stable but worked less.

For Apollo's use case there's a solution: iOS 14 adds a new API that lets you perform a pattern match against the contents of the clipboard. That way Apollo can attempt to match a …

It's in the "General" section of the System Preferences

Interestingly there's a few mentions of Catalyst improvements in the Xcode 12 release notes: > When bringing iPad apps to macOS, you can now use the Optimize Interface for Mac targ…

This largely only really true on Android. iOS at least lets you install content blockers that work with Safari as well as any embedded web browsers within apps. The only place I ty…

My understanding was always that NeXTSTEP served as the foundation of OS X, and while it certainly got a new desktop environment and compatibility with MacOS's legacy Carbon APIs, …

Swift doesn't actually use garbage collection, it uses a variant of Objective-C's Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) which was introduced a few years prior to Swift.

I've been working through this book over the past few days, and writing my own git implementation in Rust in parallel, and I've found Ruby to be much simpler from an implementation…

From my personal experience, Flow prioritises soundness in its type system, and thus can catch some bugs that TS won’t, but the TS tooling and editor support is drastically better …

It feels weird to me that they’re putting those monetisation hooks back in without talking at all about the future of the product. I’ve used Instapaper for many years now, and I’m …

I had a ton of fun with Valkyria Chronicles back in the day, and I’m not sure anything’s pulled of that sketched style in quite the same way. The brushstroke renderer also reminded…

I'm also a big fan of `ci[(|'|"]` to change all the text between a pair of delimiters. I can type `ci"` while my cursor's at the start of the line, and it'll jump to the first set …

My company's also using Buildkite, and I've been hugely impressed with how easy it is to work with, and how flexible it's been for us.

I’ve been tracking some of the bugs related to this for years, and there’s been a dispiriting lack of progress in them. Ultimately I’m still a Firefox user because it makes the bes…

In the same way other countries who've banned firearms have carried it out? It's not like there's no precedent for this if you look outside of America.

When your target audience is 'Firefox users', doesn't it make sense to more freely use features that are supported by Firefox?

Judging by where the article ends, I’m assuming this was published originally in early 2010

I think the light theme feels much more 'native' on macOS, especially in Nightly where they've added the same 'vibrancy' effects they use on the standard theme[1]. That said, a few…

The scrolling thing is a real shame, and it’s shocking to me that they haven’t implemented bouncy overscrolling when macOS has had it for something like 6 years.

on last generation hardware too, though the screenshot in question might be taken one of the ports to more modern systems

For those not following Firefox development too closely, there's a few major projects in the works right now: - Stylo, the new CSS styling engine currently enabled for a percentage…

Somewhat off-topic, but I saw your newsletter sign up form partway through the article and thought to myself "I would like to see new articles from this blog". The issue is I don't…

> If I wanted voice search, file sharing and/or note taking I would find the appropriate piece of software for that task and install it separately. The good thing is that these are…