A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Now this is a handy app when working on a Mac with a multi-screen setup. Control your display’s brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. Depending on which display your cursor is over at, the keystrokes …
This is wild: while writing his own parallel-decodable PNG implementation, David Buchanan discovered he had a bug in his code. Soon after, he found out Apple has the same bug in their implementation which ships with macOS and iOS. As a result, it’s possible to craft a PNG in such a way that Apple’s decoder …
Continue reading “Here’s a PNG that will show a different image in Apple Software”
Niels Leenheer also shares his views on the whole “all browsers on iOS are WebKit because Apple says it needs to be”-thing: Apple requires browsers to use WebKit. In fact, it must use the system-provided WebKit framework. Even though WebKit is open-source, you can’t modify or improve that version and use that in your app. …
Continue reading “Chrome is the new Safari. And so are Edge and Firefox.”
I you want to get the summary about browser choice on iOS, Stuart Langridge has got you covered: Last week I sat down with the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the regulator, to talk about browser choice on Apple devices, and whether the claims that limiting choice is good for security and privacy actually hold …
This tweet by Niels Leenheer on his relationship with Apple hit more than close to home: My complex relationship with Apple: 1️⃣ As a customer I love their products. 2️⃣ As a developer I love their platform and hate their policies. 3️⃣ As a consumer I think they are greedy and hurting competition. 4️⃣ As …
Continue reading “Your relationship with Apple: It’s complicated”
Handy Single Serving Site to keep track whether certain apps run on the Apple silicon M1 or not. Is Apple Silicon Ready? →
Ever since September 2019 I had this issue with my MacBook Pro where kernel_task would sometimes spike up to > 1000% (!) CPU load and drain my battery – even while connected to a charger. Second time this month kernel_task (with pid 0) decided to go nuts and drain my battery until my macbook shut …
Continue reading “Don’t charge your MacBook Pro from the left side. Use the right side.”
Here in Belgium schools are locked down due to #coronavirus. With the school of my two oldest kids now switching to remote teaching, I took the time to set up my old MacBook Pro (model late 2008) for my two oldest kids to use. That didn’t go without any hiccups though: the OS X installer …
This year’s spring releases of Safari 13.1 for macOS Catalina, iPadOS, iOS, and watchOS bring a tremendous number of WebKit improvements for the web across Apple’s platforms. All of this with many more updates for improved privacy, performance, and a host of new tools for web developers. These features stand out to me: Pointer and …
Adrian Roselli: It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this”, or “But Apple does this.” Mostly it is the default response to any issue I raise, but it is far worse when it is a reaction …