The countless times Apple took down a scam I exposed, only to leave up all of the developer’s other scam apps…
Why do we trust *Apple* to run an iOS App Store?
We don’t. We just have no choice.
Let *users* vote with their trust, not gatekeepers.
Microsoft would be great. But why would Apple trust Epic with a ham sandwich at this point, let alone running an App Store? Who trusts a rule breaker not to break the rules again?
Let me double down on this and share this tumblr that I created 7 years ago when I was annoyed about status bar glitches happening all over the place! 🙃https://thestatusbar.tumblr.com
Mind blown at the thought of using Postscript for generative art. But also, the idea of printing a file and getting a different output each time (which typically never happens on a laser printer.)
How Schotter started and how it's going.
1969 Georg Nees https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O221321/schotter-print-nees-georg/…
2018 me using PyCairo https://gist.github.com/nst/0dc0afa913a2cab218222b0576d0fd2e…
2022 me using Postscript
https://gist.github.com/nst/696c31566a283588b7933415b3bd6aae… so graceful!
Yesterday, Apple released a firmware update for the Apple TV remote: https://macrumors.com/2022/07/05/siri-remote-firmware-update/…
Today, the mute and volume up/down buttons stopped working on my TV. 🤬 I don't believe in coincidences! If anyone knows how to downgrade the firmware from 0x0070 to 0x0061, please share.
a company that has been operating in stealth since 2017
has $130M in funding (no products + no announcements)
and has hired 140 employees (60 of which came from apple)
here’s everything we know so far:
If you ever need to embed the XML documentation of your .NET project, for example to use by Swashbuckle in a single-file deployment scenario, here's how:
Today, after over 5 years of work, HTTP/3 was finally standardized as RFC 9114! https://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9114.html…
Together with RFC 9204 (QPACK header compression) and RFC 9218 (Extensible Priorities) it ushers in an important new chapter for the Web!
Proud to have been part of this!
Steve Jobs was great at product announcements. The iPhone introduction was fantastic showmanship. Unfortunately, his example has been a bad longterm influence. The goal should be to make a great products, not to make a big splash on stage at a conference.
Note that this is how the early preview worked. After preview feedback we've changed the feature to require the utf8 literals have the u8 suffix on them.
ReadOnlySpan<byte> span = "hello world"u8;
Do you prefer the old style macOS alerts? There is a way to get them globally for AppKit in Big Sur and Monterey:
defaults write -g NSAlertMetricsGatheringEnabled -bool false
📦 Released Gress v2!
If you are working with IProgress<T> in .NET, you might want to check it out. This library provides a set of utilities for collecting, transforming, filtering, and muxing progress in your code.
[🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️]
https://github.com/Tyrrrz/Gress#dotnet#csharp#fsharp
Bummed that the new DateOnly and TimeOnly .NET 6 types don't have a built-in TypeConverter? (This is what is used under the hood by Microsoft.Extensions.Options binding mechanism by the way.) Here's my quick solution:
2021 was incredible, can't wait to show what we have in store for you with @Cron in 2022 — we'll kick Q1 off with a bang. Finally, we're hiring (check http://cron.jobs + my DMs are open)! The team is incredible, I feel super fortunate every single day. 2022 let's gooo!
since everyone is talking about log4j/supply chains
an experiment years ago i calculated 1-bit offset utf8 strings of the top few hundred npm packages and registered packages under them
they received thousands of hits per week from machines trying to download and execute them
This is a reminder that you do not own the services provided by companies like Apple. We need an alternative to the App Store. Self-hosting and side-loading apps are the only way we can retain control over the tools we depend on.
I’ve used Apple products since 1990, have owned more than 13 Macs, and always considered Apple a partner in my life. It’s a grim reality that Apple’s antifraud system can permanently ban an innocent person. I feel like I have been kicked in the stomach.
As the .NET community starts to convert everything to file scoped namespaces (thus modifying almost every line of every file) it's time to learn about the magic .git-blame-ignore-revs file! See also this excellent blog post by
In case you haven't already or don't know about this, don't forget to also add a .git-blame-ignore-revs file to your repo listing the commit hash where you refactored that, to ensure your git blames will keep working as you'd expect
See an example here: https://github.com/Sergio0694/ComputeSharp/blob/main/.git-blame-ignore-revs…