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1/ Why not wget? For this project I wanted a consistent file format for my entire collection. I have a bunch of stuff I want to save which is behind paywalls/logins/clickthroughs t…

Argh! I knew I was going to make a numerical mistake somewhere, thanks for spotting it. Correction will be up shortly. Thanks for spotting it! :D And thanks for the text example! T…

Yeah, that was what I thought when I first worked with these APIs! But when you use PhotoKit, you have to explicitly opt-in to downloading files from iCloud. AFAICT, PHAsset is onl…

> I think that all "photos" or "videos" are just a view of the underlying "photo or video object". If you crop a video, the full-size video will remain. Only if you export the vide…

https://alexwlchan.net/writing/ I passed 400 posts a month or so ago; been writing for about a decade. It's a mix of programming, arty stuff, digital preservation, personal thought…

This is a follow-up to Writing JavaScript without a build system ( https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/16/writing-javascript-without-a... ) Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

Apparently so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_rejected_by_the_... I’m surprised by how long the list is; I thought it was much rarer and more exceptional. The only tim…

For CI systems like Travis, people add it to the cached directories, and it's shared between runs. I know Travis, Circle and AppVeyor all have some way to cache data between runs –…

There's a paragraph in the Phase I Audit Report (published a year ago) which includes a checksum: > The iSEC team reviewed the TrueCrypt 7.1a source code, which is publicly availab…

Stack of pull requests coming your way :-) (I was having some bad dreams, and apparently proofreading healthcare documents was what I needed to shake it. Thanks!)

Even if you could raise the money, I doubt that he would do it, or that it would be comparable to his OS X articles. If you listen to Hypercritical (his weekly 5by5 podcast), you'l…

> I'd love to get a feed of Daring Fireball with just the longer pieces. You’re in luck: http://daringfireball.net/feeds/ > A feed containing only the longer, feature articles (lik…