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Automatic (out-of-cycle) sleep tracking is coming in watchOS 11.

chrisdroukason 'Meridian': Why Netflix Is Helping Competitors with Content and Code (2016)

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chrisdroukason Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026

There are a number of material and technology advances [1] that accelerated the pace of the Sagrada Familia's construction — the techniques used to construct the basilica have evolved significantly since construction began.

https://www.archdaily.com/964178/from-handcrafted-stone-to-3...

chrisdroukason InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely

The most recent version of Sketch (52) seems to resolve a lot of the general slowness around large files. It's Metal-accelerated now.

https://blog.sketchapp.com/dark-mode-data-a-brand-new-look-a...

chrisdroukason This Is the Mindfulness App Apple Doesn’t Want You to Have

There are a few workarounds that don't involve undocumented APIs for this, as someone else in this thread mentioned.

Facebook's Groups app uses (disclaimer: as far as I can tell) an interesting technique involving saving data URIs to the home screen and then deep linking them.

chrisdroukason Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook

You can roll your own browser interface using WKWebView — if (for whatever reason) your app supplements the browsing experience, you'd use WKWebView.

SFSafariViewController provides its own Safari-like interface and has an extremely limited set of configuration/customization options.

chrisdroukason iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra: Networking for the Modern Internet

Without going into tremendous detail, this is roughly how:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...

chrisdroukason Digit: Save money without thinking about it

Bank of America has a similar program called "Keep the Change".

https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/manage/keep-the-chang...

chrisdroukason Show HN: Mechanical clock simulation in WebGL

Safari 9 on OS X 10.11 has this behavior.

chrisdroukason A look at how Macintosh accessories are prototyped and tested

Apple did release peripherals today, so that's likely.

chrisdroukason Exploring Apple's 3D Touch

A long press is a function of time: "How long has the user pressed?"

3D Touch is a function of pressure: "How hard has the user pressed?"

In practice, things that your application previously accomplished with long presses may be more suitably accomplished with 3D Touch — things like contextual menus or shortcuts come to mind. Additionally, iOS has new APIs for presenting content using 3D Touch. The article briefly references them.

chrisdroukason Validating Your Version of Xcode

It appears that a Chinese company named Kunlun licensed IP from Rovio and is developing Angry Birds apps specifically for the Chinese market. Perhaps they're also distributing the app themselves.

http://www.rovio.com/en/news/press-releases/621/rovio-gets-w...

chrisdroukason The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

Opportunity knocks (rather, gets served by pneumatic tube): the domain http://burritos.nyc appears to be for sale.

chrisdroukason Exploit to get root on OS X 10.10 fits in a tweet

They've issued security updates as far back as Mountain Lion as recently as June 30.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

chrisdroukason Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?

> Seeing a lot of teenagers with them…

Could this perhaps be explained by a teenager's relative (price, legal?) difficulty entering into a cell contract?

chrisdroukason Now Worth $10B, Is WeWork a 2000 Redux?

http://fortune.com/2015/06/15/andreessen-horowitz-why-were-n...

chrisdroukason An experimental tool to enforce Swift style and conventions

Is there an Objective C equivalent to this?

chrisdroukason Apple reportedly has a big problem with defective Apple Watches

Models ordered today won't ship until July.

chrisdroukason How to come up with a catchy name and logo for your startup

I'm not really sure what's gained by reimplementing scrolling in the first place.

chrisdroukason 13 Xcode Tips That Will Help You Conquer Xcode

On the topic of useful keyboard shortcuts, I like auto indentation of selected lines with control (not command) + i.

chrisdroukason Apple Increases Maximum App Size from 2GB to 4GB

60, actually. Page 78:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...

chrisdroukason Show HN: Rotate-To-Snap

Would this not be equally useful just triggering the standard iOS camera? Tap to focus, volume buttons and a large shutter button take photos.

chrisdroukason Back to the iPhone 5S

Twitter's own iOS client most certainly supports swipe to go back.

chrisdroukason Zipcar vs. Car2Go

I think the car2go account upgrade to Moovel allows international rentals through the service.

I visited Vancouver recently and was surprised by the number of designated parking spots the city had for car2go. I wish more cities would do that.

chrisdroukason Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

Probably the (nonessential) frosted visual effect in the menu. Other than that, I have no idea.

chrisdroukason UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]

No. Apple provides security updates for several versions. They most recently patched NTP for Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite at the same time.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1222

chrisdroukason Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”

I'd assume that where cursor tracking is unavailable, this experiences just degrades to a standard CAPTCHA as depicted in the post.

chrisdroukason CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen

"Secure Enclave" was (is?) the term Apple was using for the "element" storing fingerprints for Touch ID.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/09/10Apple-Announces-iP...

chrisdroukason iPad Air 2

Ah, but then you're mucking with the advertising. 0.96 pounds seems so much lighter than 434 grams, right?

A similar thing happened to A&W [0] with their "1/3 pound" burger selling fewer than a competitor's "1/4 pound" burger — effectively because "3" is less than "4" and fractions aren't for everyone.

[0]http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/great-third-po...