Freddie Harrison (Mastodon, Pieter Omvlee): Early on in the process, we prototyped various approaches to the sidebar and Inspector, including floating options (the new default in Tahoe) and glass materials. Ultimately, we went custom here, with fixed sidebars that felt less distracting in the context of a canvas-based design tool. Another area we went custom […]

Eugen Rochko (via Hacker News): After nearly 10 years, I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit. Over the course of my time at Mastodon, I have centered myself less and less in our outward communications, and to some degree, […]

Daniel Jalkut: For these scenarios, Xcode provides a handy checkbox that can be used to automatically attach when one of an app’s XPC services is launched. Look deep in the “Options” tab of the scheme editor’s “Run Action” page[…] While this feature is great for XPC services in particular, there are many caveats. For example, […]

Matthew Prince (Hacker News): The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system. That […]

Google (MacRumors, The Verge, Hacker News, model card, Hacker News): And now we’re introducing Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, that combines all of Gemini’s capabilities together so you can bring any idea to life.It’s state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance — whether it’s perceiving the subtle clues in a creative idea, […]