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If you have a pihole or something that blocks ads/tracking for your entire network, try configuring it to exclude to your Apple TV. My Paramount+ app went from crashing daily to no…

And OpenFL https://openfl.org/ which is an implementation of the Flash API written in Haxe. It can cross-compile to HTML5 or native C++ mobile and desktop. Disclosure: I'm a contri…

I don’t recall Apple unpublishing my AIR apps. One of mine was among the first secretly submitted before Adobe revealed the feature publicly. However, I definitely remember after A…

Your web browser may have also spent some time packing rectangles into rectangles. I recall reading this article a while back about how Firefox does/did it. https://mozillagfx.word…

He's appeared in several of related threads here on HN. He is always asked about his lawyers, and he repeatedly claims that they're cool with his behavior.

Haxe can compile to even more targets these days, like C++, JVM, C#, PHP, Lua, etc. It also includes an interpreter to run without compiling, and there’s a newer, faster VM for Hax…

Maybe I read it too fast, or maybe my brain was still focused on my work tasks, and that was taking priority over my casual skimming of HN. It doesn't really matter. All I know is …

I think that the author was a bit unclear in regards to the word "gay". It almost sounded like the author thinks that using the word "gay" in any context should be considered bad. …

Apache funding goes to stuff like infrastructure and administrative stuff. Developers writing code for Apache projects are volunteers and are not paid by Apache. If they’re lucky, …

Have you tried creating a .pkg file instead of .dmg? Much better user experience, in my opinion. The developer controls where the .app goes, and there’s nothing for the user to unm…

There’s a safer way to run self-signed software on macOS, for anyone that prefers not to do the master disable. First, try to run the program. When it fails, open Settings.app and …

When I was attending university, one of my professors pointed out the ACM code of ethics: https://ethics.acm.org/

Ideally, the layout would adjust the spacing between items, so that one item is always partially cut off. I don't know whether Apple does that or not (or if it's their small number…

If I discover a new movie trailer on my phone, and I want to watch it on my bigger TV screen, it's much easier to immediately cast the video that I've already pulled up than to try…

I took his meaning as, the vetting seems strict before you submit, but it actually turns out to be much less strict after you submit.

Yesterday, QFC in Interbay was nearly out of canned beans, flour, and milk. I’m sure there was more that was low, but I noticed those bare sections in particular.

You can actually create graphics in the Flash WYSIWYG editor and import them into OpenFL. You won't get the exact same workflow, but it's not completely lacking the visual tooling …

OpenFL, a library for Haxe that implements the Flash API, includes a mechanism to import graphics drawn with Flash's original tooling.

Just to add a little more... Haxe not only transpiles to C++, but it also transpiles to JavaScript. With a Haxe codebase, can deploy a project as both a native app and on the web. …