254 posts tagged ‘Mac’
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Mattt Thompson (tweet): This core insight — that configuration should be separate from code — led to the widespread adoption of .env files.[…]You add this file to .gitignore to keep it out of version control, and load these variables into your environment at runtime with a tool or library.[…]op lets you manage 1Password from the […]
The HFS Pixel
Encyclopedia Macintosh (p. 65, via Alex Rosenberg, rezmason): HFS and MFS disks can be distinguished by the presence or absence of the HFS pixel. You can tell if a drive or disk is formatted as HFS or MFS by looking for the “HFS pixel” in the upper-left corner of any window from the drive or […]
Two Foreground Windows
Pierre Igot: 1) In the Finder, select an item and make its name editable.2) WHILE THE NAME IS EDITABLE, click on the window of ANY ANOTHER APP to leave the Finder in the background.3) Click on ANOTHER Finder window to bring the Finder back to the foreground.Result: TWO FOREGROUND WINDOWS! This is a really old […]
Scott Knaster Occasionally Misses Expectations
Scott Knaster: I worked in Silicon Valley for many years with brilliant people at amazing companies that changed the world. A lot of my stories are about those people and places. But some of them are about something unexpected I saw on a walk around my neighborhood. Stuff like that.I tell stories face to face, […]
Privacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search
Jeff Johnson (Mastodon, Hacker News, Reddit, 2, The Verge, Yahoo): This morning while perusing the settings of a bunch of apps on my iPhone, I discovered a new setting for Photos that was enabled by default: Enhanced Visual Search. […] There appear to be only two relevant documents on Apple's website, the first of which […]
Honey Extension Scam
David Nield: Honey, which is owned by PayPal, is a popular browser extension—with 19 million users on Chrome alone—but the shopping tool is being accused of some seriously shady practices, including keeping users away from the lowest online prices and blocking creator affiliate links to deprive them of revenue. The scandal surfaced through a comprehensive […]
Vlad Prelovac on Kagi Search and Orion
The Talk Show (transcript): Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion. Here are some highlights from what I thought was a very interesting conversation: Microsoft tried that with Bing and they […]
Adobe Raises Monthly Photography Plan Prices
Adobe (Reddit, 2): For more than a decade, we’ve brought photographers hundreds of innovative features in Lightroom and Photoshop without changing the price of our photography plans. Today we’re announcing an update to these plans to better reflect the value that the apps deliver. These plan updates come into effect for new subscribers on January […]