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Everything is awful, and I’m aware of every awful thing all the time. There’s the pandemic, and climate change. The threat of social unrest, and the uncertainty of the economy. And if I forget this for five minutes, my phone reminds me. Even when I make an effort not to, I find myself scrolling through alerts about stock market volatility and the fires in California.

Apple has released a free web app that lets podcasters create artwork and links to promote their shows on Apple Podcasts. The app offers several customization options that should appeal to a wide variety of creators who want to market their shows on Apple’s service. Still, there are a couple of limitations worth keeping in

Photo editors are the perfect fit with automation tools because, so often, there’s a set of edits, filters, transformations, or file exports that you want to apply to multiple images. Many apps come with some sort of built-in batch processing tool, which is great, but supporting automation opens the door to integrating users’ photo editing

The deadline is July 11th

Navigating a strange new world through tech.

Asexuality is a feature — not a bug.

We just wrapped up another episode of Swift Package Indexing with the usual mix of news, Swift Package Index progress, and other interesting bits from the last couple of weeks.

If you’d like to know more about the ins and outs of iOS/macOS development, you can find me on Twitter. .image img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-radius: 12px; } .image-caption { font-style: normal; display: inherit; text-align: center; font-size: 90%; color: #565656; } video { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 80%; border-radius: 12px; } I’ve compiled a list of dev tips that I feel every iOS developer should know.

This mockup is much more readable.

Announcing 1Password 8 for iOS and Android. With an all-new design and powerful personalization, security on the go has never been this easy.

The default place for saving photos on iPhone and iPad is iCloud. With this Shortcut you create an extra backup for your photos.

Creators are getting nailed by photographers for simply wanting to celebrate other famous creators. This is backwards, and collectively, we should solve for it.

One reason I chose Write.as as my blogging platform is great support for technical writing with Markdown and MathJax. I use Markdown all...

Finally, a way to deal with all of those tabs you have open.

Elon Musk on Saturday challenged Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the percentage of bots on the social media platform.

Reddit Talk, the social site’s Clubhouse-like social audio product, is rolling out a handful of updates aimed at allowing hosts to better engage with listeners. Among these is a new soundboard for audio effects and a topic selector that allows hosts to select up to three topics for their talk…

Small size, low price.

Apple is facing yet another antitrust lawsuit over its App Store fees, this time filed by a group of French iOS app developers who are suing the tech giant in its home state of California. The plaintiffs are accusing Apple of anticompetitive practices in allowing only one App Store for iOS devices,…

Last year, we awarded Noir Best New App of 2021 as part of the MacStories Selects Awards. Jeffrey Kuiken’s Safari extension for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, which can apply a custom dark mode to websites that don’t offer their own, is a fantastic example of an app that implements a new technology – the

Musician Kevin Morby discusses the benefits of boredom, building a world, and learning how to take lead.

Twitter is developing an updated version of its audio chat rooms product known as Spaces, TechCrunch learned and Twitter confirmed. The company said it’s currently working a new experiment for the Twitter Spaces tab in its app but declined to discuss the specifics of that change. However, scr…

There’s a lot to choose from.

From CD-ROMs to Star Wars trailers to YouTube, the video format technology that got pushed off to the side as standardization crept in.

I guess I’ll stop doing this, too.

New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.

Parent company GitHub wants to increase 2FA usage on the platform.

For awhile now, I was wondering if it was possible to use Markdown, to make an image clickable. By that I mean, display an image in a blo...

Back in 2020, developer Shihab Mehboob released the first version of Aviary – a new Twitter client for iOS, macOS, and even watchOS. Since then, the app has been updated multiple times with new features. Now Mehboob is releasing version 2 of Aviary, which has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. When Aviary was […]