Howard Oakley: If you have old Finder aliases that need to be checked and repaired, Alifix will do that job with you. Use it to scan a folder containing those aliases, and it will warn you which can’t be resolved any longer, and can rewrite those that need to be updated. I’d forgotten about this […]

Matthew Bickham: Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 now lets you block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac — not just in Safari. […] Whether you’re scrolling through social media, playing games, or reading the news (including Apple News), ads are blocked automatically — creating a cleaner, faster experience across your […]

John Sundell: When a type conforms to either EncodableWithConfiguration or DecodableWithConfiguration, it requires an additional configuration value to be passed when either encoding or decoding it (and the compiler will enforce that requirement). […] CodableWithConfiguration is really quite useful when using Swift’s built-in serialization API to encode and decode types that require additional data in […]

Matthew Prince (Hacker News, Slashdot): The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you’ve created, an AI-driven web doesn’t reward content creators the way that the old search-driven web did. And that means the deal that Google made to take content in exchange […]

Thomas Claburn (Figma, Hacker News): The company prospectus mentions AI more than 150 times, characterizing it both as a creative accelerant and a potential threat.[…]Back to Figma, whose prospectus says that as of the first three months of 2025 it has 13 million monthly active users.For the year that ended on December 31, 2024, Figma […]