Earlier this week, we published a compilation of interviews with seven developers as part of our 2021 Summer OS Preview Series. We received excellent, in-depth responses from all of the participants and weren’t able to use all the material we collected in that story. So as a bonus for Club members, we’ll be publishing the complete,...
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The Many Ways To Run Shortcuts in macOS Monterey
There are a lot of reasons to be excited about the debut of Shortcuts on the Mac this fall, and chief among them, is how well integrated the app is into macOS. Apple didn’t spend a lot of time on Shortcuts during the WWDC keynote, but the developer sessions, OS preview pages, and digging around...
Straw Poll
Results of our WWDC 2021 Straw Poll Apple Design Award Responses In addition to the questions above, we asked Club members which apps they would have selected for an Apple Design Award. We received a long list of suggestions, but here are the apps that received the most mentions: Craft CARROT Weather Apollo Reeder Things...
Interesting Links
Using a combination of Kodex, Textastic, Working Copy, a-Shell, and Shortcuts, Nipun Batra explains how he uses the iPad to do development work. (Link) Logitech announced this week that its Combo Touch iPad Air case-keyboard-trackpad accessory is now available for sale. (Link) Josh Holtz has created an amazing shortcut that allows him to run other...
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[[appstories_artwork]] Next week on AppStories, Federico and John dig intothe latest iteration of the research and note-taking setup that Federico is using to prepare his annual iOS and iPadOS review, which features Obsidian. [[unwind_artwork]] This week on MacStories Unwind, John is joined by Alex Guyot to talk about Apple’s infamous App Store Review Guidelines comic...
Interview: Christian Selig
Twitter: @ChristianSelig. Creator of Apollo. Which of the new or updated frameworks make you want to drop support for older OS versions and why? The new Swift concurrency features around async await look really nice; I’ve been wanting to rewrite my networking stack for a while and it looks perfect. That and the new iPad...
Interesting Links
Ars Technica reports on a floppy disk that was recovered and restored by the Video Game History Foundation that reveals new and fascinating details about Nintendo-fan-favorite Earthbound, a game originally released for the SNES. (Link) Twitter appears to be close to releasing its Super Follow feature, and The Verge has a look at what to...