Zeyi Yang and Louise Matsakis (Bluesky): Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several […]

Free Software Foundation Europe (via Hacker News): The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims for a structural reset of power in digital markets, a shift from corporate control toward device neutrality, where users decide what runs on their devices. For Free Software, this legislation can be a unique opportunity by finally opening closed ecosystems - […]

Under the Radar: In our final episode, we reflect on how indie app development has changed over the past decade. Marco Arment: We’re incredibly proud of our ten-year catalog of 30-minute discussions on development, marketing, monetization, work/life balance, and mental health for app developers. I really liked the 30-minute format and the breadth of topics: […]

Brent Simmons (release notes): Long-time Mac users will understand when we say that this is a Snow Leopard release — it fixes a bunch of bugs, makes some things faster, and adds only a couple features. […] Note also that it doesn’t adopt Liquid Glass. We’ll be doing that in NetNewsWire 7, which we’re working […]

Gus Mueller: Acorn 8.3 is out and the big new feature is that it supports Liquid Glass for folks who are running macOS Tahoe (which is over 50% of Acorn 8 users at this point!). […] But the UI was a ton of work! And I made it extra difficult on myself by making Liquid […]