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Horizon Worlds is getting a graphics upgrade.

CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. B…

What if the 20th century professional-managerial class read obscene books not to get off but to get down with bureaucracy?

It could help tell if tweets come from a real person or a bot

Utopian societies popped up all over the United States in the 1840's and for one Ozarker, Columbia-based novelist Steve Wiegenstein, it was a chance for him to combine his love for an area of Missouri in which his family goes back 5 generations with his fascination for these 19th century egalitarian communities. He talks about his Daybreak series of novels with Diana Moxon and how the history of a legendary and terrifying guerilla fighter intersects with his own ancestors. And in Act Two of the show, Diana chats with metal sculptor, butch Murphy, who went from a career in the sanitized world of medicine to a retirement of rust, oil and the grime of scrapyards. Opening and closing musical credits with thanks to guitarist Yasmin Williams (www.yasminwilliamsmusic.com).

Blog post by Joseph Duffy about The iPod touch Is My Favourite Device for iOS Development

Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond. From ham radio operators to HIV/AIDS activists, these modem enthusiasts developed novel forms of community moderation, governance, and commercialization. The Modem World tells an alternative origin story for social media, centered not in the office parks of Silicon Valley or the meeting rooms of military contractors, but rather on the online communities of hobbyists, activists, and entrepreneurs. Over time, countless social media platforms have appropriated the social and technical innovations of the BBS community. How can these untold stories from the internet’s past inspire more inclusive visions of its future?

I first encountered the phrase “hillbilly gothic” on a library website, of all places, one of those “if you liked X you might like Y” guides.

Another reason not to play 1989's Rhythm Nation – it messes with some hard disk drives

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

Greetings, reporters! I have a different one for you today - something to keep on top of all your social media feeds. This is a new (to me at least) tool called Inoreader. There are lots of feed aggregators out there, so you might ask, why this one?

Let's try out the new SwiftUI navigation APIs introduced in beta 1 for iOS 16 and macOS 13: NavigationStack, NavigationSplitView and ways to set up programmatic navigation.

Natalia Panferova joins John to discuss some of the key new features that are coming to SwiftUI and UIKit in iOS 16, and to talk about her experience working on SwiftUI at Apple.

John gains a new “job title”, Rambo starts working on an iOS version of AirBuddy, and the two discuss how come the Apple developer community tends to be so focused on UI frameworks.

Apple Inc. is aiming to hold a launch event on Sept. 7 to unveil the iPhone 14 line, according to people with knowledge of the matter, rolling out the latest version of a product that generates more than half its sales.

Downloading whole YouTube channels using the yt-dlp tool, with specifying video quality and format types. For a general run down and usage guide on yt-dlp go here. Go to the bottom for the full yt-dlp…

An injection flaw allowed a researcher to access all files on a Mac. Apple issued a fix, but some machines may still be vulnerable.

The latest version of Google’s mobile operating system is now available for Pixel phones.

Lists keyboard shortcuts for Xcode 4.

It's been awhile since I updated the contents of the Archive page on my journal. I stopped updating when my Blazor apps stopped working. ...

Making up for Microsoft’s missteps?

The filmmaker behind Zoey Deutch influencer satire Not Okay on cinematic tragedies, cringe comedies and great films for Jersey girls and queer folk.

Influencers in the wild.

Apple is set to expand ads to new areas of your iPhone and iPad in search of its next big revenue driver. Also: The company slows its pace of acquiring startups, and Peloton embarks on a major overhaul.

Rosemary Orchard has released the second edition of her book Take Control of Shortcuts, a guide to everything Shortcuts for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

When the Share icon appears, your shortcuts are near.

Apple is giving the iPad the tools to distribute iOS apps.

I didn’t know entirely what I was getting myself into by making an app on the iPad. I went in aware of its limitations and tried to think of a little something I could make for myself that would be useful and extremely simple. Thus I settled on the love song of so many developers, the thing that

A developer just created and published one of the first apps using Swift Playgrounds 4 on iPad, and it's called "ToDon't."