David Pierce (Slashdot): When the iPad Pro came along five years later — it went on sale 10 years ago today — nothing much had changed. The Pro ran all the same apps, did all the same things, had pretty much the same things in pretty much the same places. It was just bigger. Its […]

Jason Koebler (Slashdot): The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content, according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI subpoena says it is part […]

I have some old code that uses NSNotificationQueue to coalesce notifications. I think this is an underappreciated class. (Even in the old days, I saw a lot more talk about +cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:selector:object:.) My newer code uses more threads, but notification queues are not thread-safe. You can create additional queues beyond the default and have each one […]

Apple (MacRumors, MacStories, Hacker News, Slashdot): Today, we’re introducing the Mini Apps Partner Program, which expands on the App Store’s ongoing support for apps that offer mini apps. Mini apps are self-contained experiences that are built using web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript. This program is designed to help developers who host mini apps grow […]

I’ve frequently noted my frustration with Apple’s Xcode release notes, how lately they simply don’t tell you what’s changed in a given release. Changes from multiple releases are merged together, and Apple deletes and renames old pages so that you can’t compare them unless you’d saved a copy. However, commenter F1248 has done something about […]