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Brian Voong on his excellent YouTube channel Let's Build That App: With the introduction of iPhone 10, we as developers are now faced with another option for our apps to be displayed in. Fortunately, Apple has provided us with the necessary APIs to get around the unsafe regions of this phone. We do this by using the new…
Jason Snell for Six Colors: iPhone users, well, there’s still great stuff there—Do Not Disturb When Driving is going to make the world safer—but it’s a bit less of a world-shaker. Not a world shaker? This isn't a ho-hum, hum-drum update for iPhone. This is going to save a ton of lives, injury, heartache, and money. I wish…
Harris’s Hawk, Mexico – August 2017 These hawks were used to keep the pesky, french-fry thieving, gray birds away from the tourists. Most effective.
Colin Walker: I am enjoying blogging now more than I have in a long time. The addition of microblogging greatly removes the burden of constantly writing essay pieces and the clamour for perfection that it instills. And that's something to be thankful for. Agreed. Congratulations to Colin. I expect him to hit 2000 in no time.
I’ve been using the iOS 11 public betas on my iPhone and iPad for several releases and I think it is one of the most important updates to iOS. It brings lifesaving features to the iPhone and powerful features to the iPad. Tomorrow iOs 11 is being released to the public, I thought I’d jot down a few…
Ryan X. Charles: Most people told us it would never work, but we did it anyway: We started charging 10¢ to post content on our social network. Our users didn’t leave. In fact, they are posting more than ever, and the quality of content has improved. Our experiment seems to be working. People are willing to pay to…
👉 Ike: So here’s a nice wallpaper for your iPhone X, OWNING the notch. (be sure to follow the link) /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
Pacific coast, Higuera Blanca, Punta de Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
Matt Mullenweg: I'm here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a few weeks, and may push the release into next year. Automattic will also use whatever we choose for Gutenberg to rewrite Calypso — that will take…
moz://a: The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives – so Exhaustive Shopping Researcher Self can steer clear of Humble Bragging Social Self, and Super Professional Work Self can go about the bizness without worrying about being followed by those other two. What a fantastic feature from the Firefox…
On September 12th, NEPA.js held its September meetup. Anthony Altieri presented on beacons – the typically small Bluetooth devices that “chirp” some very basic information multiple times per second allowing app developers to understand the proximity of a user. This allows for things like understanding where a shopper is in a retail space. His overview of the devices,…
John George, fellow NEPA.js attendee: I’m writing this because I discovered the hard way that .NET Core’s ‘dotnet run’ command is NOT meant to be production ready. My biggest headache was that my website shut down when I exited my shell. Not even the ‘disown’command would dissociate the running service from the user. Posts like this by John often…
Jason Washo, owner of Sho Technology Solutions in downtown Scranton and someone who I've worked with on multiple client projects and who has become a friend over the last year, was recently interviewed on tecBRIDGE Radio. Here's just one bit: I work hard, and I will work to bring things to close and I think a lot of…
Lee Billings for Scientific American: All good things must come to an end. For NASA’s Cassini orbiter—its fuel dwindling after 13 years exploring Saturn, along with the planet’s sprawling rings and dozens of icy moons—the end will come Friday at 7:55 A.M. Eastern time. That’s when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two-ton, bus-size…
👉 TNW: iPhone X leaked benchmarks match MacBook [Pro] speeds and destroy Android phones That is impressive and remarkable.
👉 Maciej Cegłowski: iPhone X summary: wireless charging (with wire), all-screen display (with black bar) and sleek, flat shape (with camera bump)
👉 Conan O'Brien: When in Tel-Aviv… (be sure to follow the link)
NEPA BlogCon 2017 tickets are available: Attendees can expect presentations and roundtable discussions on branding, content development, podcasting, vlogging, and more. I like the format changeup. (See also) Looks like some friends are presenting as well. Go grab your tickets.
Dan Kimbrough seems to love his Note8. However, he did offer this one caveat: The one big let down I have is the speaker. It’s weak and poorly located. There’s only one speaker for media playback. At the bottom, to the right of the charging port. If you’re left handed, that’s probably where your pinky will sit. Sorry….
Brad Frost: The term “full-stack developer” implies that a developer is equally adept at both frontend code and backend code, but I’ve never in my personal experience witnessed anyone who truly fits that description. In many of the descriptions I've seen it goes even further than that. Sometimes full-stack developer refers to someone who can also administer server architectures…
_DavidSmith: While I’ll have to live with it for a few weeks to see if it really pans out, imagining a future where my iPhone is no longer a ‘must carry’ device is remarkable. This is why I'm ordering one. As I said I would.
Tom Dale, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and co-creator of Ember.js, in a post where he argues that compilers are the new web frameworks: Native code tends to have the luxury of not really caring about file size—a small 40MB iOS app would get you laughed out of the room on the web. And AAA game titles…
Instagram: Starting today, you can share stories with your friends in Direct. This is a meaningful update. Stories sucked a lot of the activity out of the feed. Being able to share Stories you find – whether they are about a place, event, an interest, a celebrity, or from a friend – means that a lot more eyeballs…
👉 Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Can’t believe they didn’t indent it a little bit.