Is it just me or does SwiftUI look like a substantial step towards Alan Kay’s vision for Smalltalk/the future of computing becoming reality? Like a mishmash of good ideas from Bret Victor, Smalltalk, and Hypercard, except this time with serious money behind it?
Looks like Sign In with Apple is going to be mandatory for many apps. That’s one way to get adoption.
From developer.apple.com/news/
This API is also coming in Safari 13 this autumn.
Looks like the anonymised email thing only works for services that have opted in
I’m getting the impression that the web version of Sign In with Apple needs to be tied to an existing native app
“Safari 13 Beta Release Notes”
Very promising: pointer events, desktop class browser on the iPad, FIDO2 security keys, defaults to accellerated scrolling in all frame & more
The Mac Pro is well beyond what I’ll ever afford or need but it’ll be useful to a lot of people. The industries who need the features the new screen has will have no hesitation to buy it.
And the fact that these two exist makes me more optimistic about next year’s MacBook Pros
Apple seems to be going all-in on privacy at #WWDC19. I may be hesitant about their design and engineering decisions lately (macbook keyboards, Marzipan, etc.) but baking privacy into the OS foundations trumps that handily.
“Except in extraordinary situations, Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way”
“Unfortunately, Apple’s marketing claims about Dark Mode’s benefits fly in the face of the science of human visual perception.”
“The economics of package management”
Possibly the most important piece on JS/web dev you’re likely to read this month.
“Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests”
“Functional JavaScript: How to use array reduce for more than just numbers”
“The W3C Needs You: Please Vote For Change In The W3CAB Election - Tantek”
“Does it [still] spark joy? On Mallory, #ComicsDNA and book publishing.”
“Why call it vanilla JS when its just JavaScript? - Go Make Things”