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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 — and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
Excuse the alarmist title, but I think it’s justified, as it’s an issue that’s caused me a ton of pain in both support emails and actually tracking it down, so I want to make others aware of it so they don’t similarly burned. Brief intro For the uninitiated, UserDefaults (née NSUserDefaults) is the de facto iOS standard for persisting non-sensitive, non-massive data to “disk” (AKA offline). In other words, are you storing some user preferences, maybe your user’s favorite ice cream flavors? UserDefaults is great, and used extensively from virtually every iOS app to Apple sample code. Large amount of data, or sensitive data? Look elsewhere! This is as opposed to just storing it in memory where if the user restarts the app all the data is wiped out.
Trying to use #ruby & #rails on macos in 2024
Installing ruby 3.x is royal pain with openssl conflicts https://github.com/rvm/rvm/issues/5365
New blog post “Apple started cheating me out of App Store bundle purchases”
TL;DR I've discovered that starting in February, Apple mistakenly subtracts the price of the previously purchased app twice from the proceeds of a "Complete My Bundle" purchase, thereby causing me to take a loss on each such bundle purchase. This accounting change has cost me thousands of dollars over the past few months.
For the 40th Anniversary of the Mac... here are 40 years of All-In-One Macs' base SKU memory capacities.
It's sometimes tricky to tell which SKUs were still on sale at what time, so this is just based on "entry level" product introductions.
Memory increased quickly until the Mac Plus. 1986 to 1990 were all about decreasing the entry Mac price. Then we get a pretty straight logarithmic line until Tim Cook became CEO and there has only been a single increase since.
Created some single-serving sites on github to work with text. All the logic is client side, so you don't have to worry about tracking. I made these as an alternative to the same sites you find at the top of search results
* https://xta.github.io/jwt-datetime/
GraphiQL is a great tool https://github.com/graphql/graphiql
I'm finding the Documentation sidebar a bit verbose & hard to use #graphql
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