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Magnifying Each Other’s Light
Swiss Miss,
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.’ – James Baldwin
Élodie Antoine
The buttons on this shirt by Élodie Antoine are a thing of beauty.
This!
A 10-millionth visitor to the Rijksmuseum of Netherlands was allowed to spend the night at Rembrandt’s painting “Night Watch” with a bottle of wine and dinner. This is everything.
The Monetized Web
kbps,
Nobody loves a paywall, but everybody loves Substack Increasingly, it feels like paid memberships for web content are not only a viable alternative to surveillance-driven ad revenue, but one that readers are eager to embrace. The success of Substack demonstrates this. This success is often framed as a preference for reading in the inbox rather […]
Apple’s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
mjtsai,
Alexandre Colucci (Hacker News): Unsurprisingly, there has been a significant increase in the number of apps adopting SwiftUI this year. Notable mentions include: The Preferences app with several of its bundles (StorageSettingsUI, WallpaperSettings, MultitaskingAndGesturesSettings, ThirdPartyApplicationSettings, ActionButtonSettings, …) Several binaries related to Health (Health.app, HealthUI, MentalHealthUI, WorkoutUI, …) The Home app, which appears to have undergone […]
The Problem With China and AI
Benjamin Mullin, John Koblin, and Tripp Mickle (Hacker News): Jon Stewart’s show on Apple’s streaming service is abruptly coming to an end, according to several people with knowledge of the decision, the result of creative differences between the tech giant and the former “Daily Show” host. […] The show initially had difficulty gaining traction. By […]
The Average Lifespan of a Smartphone
Isabel Rubio (via Hacker News): While Marcos Fernández managed to last six years with his previous device, the average lifespan of a smartphone is much lower. In Europe, for instance, it’s about three years, according to the European Environment Office (EEB). This figure is far less than the 25 years that a phone would need […]
An Apple Library Primer
Quinn: Apple’s library technology has a long and glorious history, dating all the way back to the origins of Unix. This does, however, mean that it can be a bit confusing to newcomers. This is my attempt to clarify some terminology.[…]The linker has seen three major implementations:ld — This dates from the dawn of Mac […]