Using version numbers, it’s possible to track changes in critical sub-systems like APFS within macOS. According to those, APFS was updated twice while Catalina was in security-only maintenanc…

Wikipedia cites a few different sources on what “Unix Philosophy” is. Peter Salus summarizes it as:
Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.…

C# 11 is here! Bringing with it some highly anticipated features including string literals, generic math, required members, and much more.

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The recent changes that Apple has made to App Store ads should raise many #privacy concerns. It seems that the #AppStore app on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app to Apple.👇This data is sent in one request: (data usage & personalized ads are…

I heard about VHS recently. It’s a tool for creating recordings of command-line tools, so you can create little demos and tutorials about how to use them. You can write a noscript to run comman…

Subscribe ◎⁃ ◎  Hello, Welcome to Connecting Dots, the monthly newsletter on Innovation Leadership by  Brett Macfarlane .  I’m back in London after recent visits to Spain, France, Netherlands and Canada. Everywhere I went, the need for leadership…

I grew up in a household full of books; one day, I stumbled across a couple of vintage amateur chemistry noscripts from the 1970s and 1980s. I quickly fell in love with the dazzling and sometimes dangerous experiments that offered insights into the invisible…

TikTok is the bane of my existence working with middle schoolers. Every vice that can be tapped into is available on the platform. There is a fight every week because somebody “started beef” on TikTok. And it’s an enormous time waster. All my students are…

Amazon Music's new update only allows songs to be played in shuffle mode, unless users spend $9 dollars a month extra on Amazon Music Unlimited.

The media company added 12.1 million Disney+ customers in the most recent quarter, bumping total subscriber base above Netflix.

The FTX co-founder is on the brink of a 94% wealth wipeout at the hands of his billionaire rival, Binance’s Changpeng Zhao.

And that’s great. It’s also the return of Google Reader! Mastodon is really confusing for newcomers. There are memes about it. If you’re an internet user of a certain age, …

In this article, the author explores the concept of containers and how they are essentially chrooted processes. They walk through the process of bu...