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Roan delivered a crowd-pleasing performance full of heart and energy. Her connection with the audience left fans eager for her return.

The current state of apps and the advent of Apple Intelligence makes it important to have an action centered design approach to designing apps. The phone is only a part of a much larger ecosystem.

Header and Top Area Terminology's main screen visible when browsing any term.  The current term is displayed in the header.  Any text, term or phrase may be current, even if it is not available...

If you have a valid iCloud account configured on your device, Terminology will enable iCloud sync and backup by default.  When enabled, all favorites, term browsing history, notes and actions will ...

What is the source of Terminology’s dictionary? Terminology is based on Princeton University’s WordNet lexical database. WordNet is a semantic reference focused on the relationships between words i...

What are Actions? Terminology has configurable actions to open other resources related to the term you are browsing.  Actions are based on dynamically constructed URLs with embedded tags and can o...

Terminology’s custom actions support a number of tags for dynamically inserting text when an action is performed. [[term]] : The current term being browsed in the app. [[term_url]] : A URL that ...

In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Microsoft’s instant messaging app. The terrible name came from Marketing, which had become something of a joke for always picking the clunkiest and least imaginative product names. Buddy List? C U C Me? MSN Messenger? No, MSN Messenger Service. I’ll call it Messenger for short.

Among the gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America.

This document defines the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format and its streamable subset. FLAC is designed to reduce the amount of computer storage space needed to store digital audio signals. It does this losslessly, i.e., it does so without losing information. FLAC is free in the sense that its specification is open and its reference implementation is open source. Compared to other lossless audio coding formats, FLAC is a format with low complexity and can be encoded and decoded with little computing resources. Decoding of FLAC has been implemented independently for many different platforms, and both encoding and decoding can be implemented without needing floating-point arithmetic.

For the user research of my thesis, I used NotebookLM to organise, synthesize, and expand on my insights. It's a great research organization tool that provides utility of drawing connections between discreet topics and helping me understand my own journey better.

In a recent episode of Connected, we rounded up some of our favorite “iOS little wonders” and Myke was surprised by one of my picks: the ability to launch individual notes on iOS through shared links. The ensuing discussion inspired me to assemble a list of tips and tricks to improve how you can work

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Diversity trends among faculty in STEM and non-STEM fields at selective public universities in the U.S. from 2016 to 2023

W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

We’ve been making apps for decades and have acquired the skills to build all sorts of great things. But even talented teams can be challenged, and our latest product has been the hardest yet. I’m talking about Tapestry. It’s taken ten months since 3,369 folks agreed that the idea of putting all the things you follow […]

Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.

Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.