CwlSignal and Reactive Programming
Matt Gallagher: The careful separation of “input” and “output” and the modelling of reactive programming as a channel is a distinguishing feature of CwlSignal. Other common implementations treat...
View ArticleFixing AVPlayer Playback Transparency
Ashley Nelson-Hornstein: To test this theory, I downloaded one of the videos made in the client’s app, dropped it into Apple’s example project, and made a couple of quick changes so that Apple’s...
View ArticleApp Transport Security Requirement Delayed
Apple (Slashdot): At WWDC 2016 we announced that apps submitted to the App Store will be required to support ATS at the end of the year. To give you additional time to prepare, this deadline has been...
View ArticleConsumer Reports on the New MacBook Pro’s Battery Life
Jerry Beilinson (Hacker News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): The laptops did very well in measures of display quality and performance, but in terms of battery life, we found that the models varied dramatically...
View ArticleInvestigating ChronoSync 4.7 for Cloud Backup
Glenn Fleishman: We at TidBITS were excited to see ChronoSync add options to use Amazon’s Simple Storage System (S3) and Google Cloud Storage as sources or destinations. ChronoSync 4.7 also added...
View ArticleMac and iOS Trajectories
Riccardo Mori: I have a hard time believing it, but for the sake of argument, let’s say the Mac has reached the end of the line. Let’s say there’s little room left to innovate on the hardware side, and...
View ArticleGoodbye Mint, Goodbye Fever
Shaun Inman: As of today I’m officially suspending sales and support of Mint and Fever. But! As self-hosted software, absolutely nothing changes and you can continue using both Mint and Fever as you...
View ArticlePHPMailer Security Bug
Tom Spring: A critical PHPMailer bug tied to the way websites handle email and feedback forms is leaving millions of websites hosted on popular web-publishing platforms such as WordPress, Drupal and...
View ArticleAmazon Could Be More International
Dave Winer: I bought a gift card for a friend who lives in the UK, but I bought it on amazon.com, thinking that would be great because they’re so international. But it turns out you can’t use an...
View ArticleChristmas Card Mail Merge
Casey Liss: If you’re willing to make precisely zero edits to the address labels that are created from the Contacts app, it’s actually quite easy to print labels. […] For me, I wanted to address...
View ArticleMacBook Pro Ethernet Adapter Benchmark
Paul Haddad notes that Apple’s Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter is slightly faster than Belkin’s USB-C to Ethernet adapter and uses much less CPU. Unfortunately, the former must be chained with the...
View ArticleAmazon Echo Privacy
John Gruber: There’s an argument that we’re still in the very early stages of voice-driven personal computing. That, for example, Apple is not too late in putting out an Echo-like dedicated appliance....
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