Archive for August 22, 2023

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

macOS Window Management

Mac Power Users:

Since the dawn of multitasking, users have needed to juggle things on their screens. Apple has taken several swings at building good window management tools into macOS, but better solutions can be found in a long list of third-party apps. Stephen and David have tried just about all of them for this episode.

I’ve been using Moom for a long time. One of my favorite features is that it can trigger a preset when the number of displays changes. So windows automatically rearrange themselves when I dock or undock my MacBook Pro.

Previously:

iOS App Setup for Remote Push Notifications

Natalia Panferova (Mastodon):

Remote push notifications are messages that app developers can send to users directly on their devices from a remote server. These notifications can appear even if the app is not open, making them a powerful tool for re-engaging users or delivering timely information. They are different from local notifications, which are scheduled and triggered by the app itself on the device.

Adding remote notifications capability to an iOS app is a quite involved process that includes several steps and components. This post will walk you through all the necessary setup so that you can enable remote push notification functionality in your iOS project.

Twitter Media Datacide

Tom Coates (Hacker News):

Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. That’s - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service.

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This is what Twitter pre-2014 looks like - every image and video removed and replaced with a dead link.

It’s unclear whether this is intentional or a bug, and some images seem to be back now, though most are gone.

kemayo:

Specifically, it looks like they’ve broken any http links to t.co, while the newer https ones still work. The practical effect of this is actually worse than the thread stated -- all old media and links on Twitter are broken (at least, since 2010 when they started using t.co). But perhaps they can fix it by restoring the http version of t.co?

Previously:

Update (2023-08-23): Richard Lawler:

Now the @Support account at X, the company formerly known as Twitter until Elon Musk rebranded it, says, “Over the weekend we had a bug that prevented us from displaying images from before 2014. No images or data were lost. We fixed the bug, and the issue will be fully resolved in the coming days.”

Some images are back, but many are still missing.