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It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these deep dives on what goes on behind the scenes during the development of an Iconfactory app. There’s a common thread to each one: I feel the need to document our work when there’s a major change in how we build user interfaces. The first one was […]

Back when the Pixel 4 XL was Google's latest Android flagship, JR Raphael wrote a great piece on the insanity of smartphone screen notche...

This article provides a step-by-step guide on the basic syntax of the Linux “wc” command. The tutorial highlights and depicts the Linux “wc” command as a simple and easy to implement command that gives you an indication of the number of lines, words, bytes, and characters contained in a file.

Apple is bringing Stage Manager to more iPads.

Constantly posting content on social media can erode your privacy—and sense of self.

Bear users have created all kinds of clever ways to use it with other apps in their day-to-day work. Here are just some of the ideas that caught our eye.

A few days ago, as I was playing around with my Lock Screen on iOS 16, I wondered: would it be possible to use the hidden Apple Notes URL scheme to create widget launchers to reopen specific notes in the Notes app? That led me down a fascinating rabbit hole filled with hidden Shortcuts tricks

The Palm Touchstone is a charging dock that permits wireless recharging of the Palm Pre via induction technology. It is sold with the Touchstone Charging kit, which also includes t... review

GitHub's announced donation to help communities affected by Trump immigration policies was a peace offering of sorts. But tensions inside the software firm are still high.

You can make an existing repository a template, so you and others can generate new repositories with the same directory structure, branches, and files.

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It’s one thing to move off centralized online spaces run by corporate giants, and another to settle the decentralized frontiers where we create new communities. As those communities get organ…

Eyestrain, nausea not entirely dealt with, military brass remain committed to AR

TL;DR Choose REST if you have non-entity data you want to expose. In all other cases, choose JSON:API. Slightly more nuanced: Core's REST module allows for anything (any format, any logic, any HTTP method) and extreme configurability. Powerful but complex and hence relatively brittle. JSON:API focuses on exposing Drupal's biggest strength (entities/data modeling) in a coherent manner. Simple yet sufficiently powerful for most use cases. Feature matrix High-level feature-based comparison between JSON:API and REST.

How does the Spring Twitter client by Junyu Kuang stack up to Tweetbot and Twitterrific?

The completed purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk reflects a symbolic victory for those who saw its power as a tool of influence, rather than for communication.

On your iOS device, you will need a Remote Desktop App that allows you to access MacinCloud remotely. We recommend a free app called "Remote Desktop Manager" for iPad users and "Remote Desktop Mobile" for iPhone users. You can find these apps in ...

A critical point has been reached; decoupling is for real this time.

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