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In memory of the mid-2015 15” Retina Macbook Pro: 5/19/2015 - 7/12/18

Do you long for the days of the skeuomorphic designs and tactile beauty of iOS 4? Do you wish you could run iOS 4 on your shiny new iPhone 12 Pro? Of course you do! If you’re feeling that iOS…

iPadOS 16 brings some major new features like an all new multitasking option to the iPad, but there are also various smaller more subtle features, changes, and additions that are particularly nice …

Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 updates to public beta testers, opening up the software to the general...

We started Worn & Wound 10 years ago with little to no idea what it would eventually become. We just wanted to talk about cool watches with fellow, like-minded enthusiasts. Fast forward a decade and Worn & Wound’s community has grown to include passionate collectors from throughout the globe. One brand that unifies so many […]

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Worn & Wound, we've teamed up with Seiko 5 Sports to create a limited edition inspired by the SNK803

If you are using the same structure in your notes or need some automation to fill certain information you can use templates to do most of the work for you, so y

The vast majority of the technical documentation written today is written in Markdown. From Jane’s dev blog to Microsoft’s PowerShell documentation, markdown is behind it. Markdown is a light weight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax. Markup languages were designed to be easy to write using a generic text editor and easy to read in its raw from without rendering. Markdown’s success is largely in part because it does this very well.

New DIrect Messages v2 endpoints are now available for creating and retrieving messages.

QA1633: Describes how to create appstore.com short URLs to the App Store.

The App Store Review Guidelines have been updated to support new features in upcoming OS releases, better protect customers, and help your apps go through the review process as smoothly as possible.

An introduction to the Pleroma microblogging server

On one Reddit community of 110,000, members share work hacks—like using “mouse jigglers,” single-ear headsets, and a mantra (“Always Be Interviewing”)—to help one another keep the ruse going. “All my paychecks are still coming in,” one engineer claims, “but the fear of being found out is never-ending.”

Highlight & Shadow recovery sliders get a major upgrade that dramatically improves their recovery range and refines the result.

Timery has been updated with a long list of new features and improvements that fans of the app are going to love. Lock Screen Widgets and Live Activities First off, Timery has added iOS 16 Lock Screen Widgets and Live Activities. The Lock Screen widgets can display your current time entry, the total amount of

The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces. System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits. The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands.

John MacFarlane

A CLI tool that converts exported Medium posts (HTML) to Jekyll/Hugo compatible markdown with front matter

Real-world examples that show how to implement command-line interfaces in Python