Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.

In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.

An interactive experience that recreates memorable moments in Apple history with painstaking detail and historical accuracy.

Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

The Fn key has been a fixture on Apple keyboards for decades, but many Mac users lack a sense of its purpose. Adam Engst thought he was going to write a quick article listing hidden keyboard shortcuts that tap the Fn key but got dragged into documenting the…

A small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use. - mangerlahn/Latest

New with Sonoma 14.2, iOS 17.2, and watchOS 10.2 is a service that enables you to verify and put more trust in those you message. Full details here.

LoveFrom Serif is a brand new interpretation of the Baskerville genre, a custom typeface that supports a new identity designed by Peter Saville and the LoveFrom team. From a study of Baskerville’s surviving punches, printed books and contemporary writing…

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s.

在搜寻大画幅相关资料时，偶然看到一篇写于十四年前名为《大画幅 4x5》的帖子，里面汇聚了非常有价值的关于大画幅的内容，不过这篇帖子目前已无法找到。所以我将当初保存的这篇帖子略作排版、校对，以便阅读，并在我的个人网站上复活。 第一部分 提起 4×5 相机，这对很多资深发烧友和专业摄影师并不漠生，4×5 是指这类相机所使用的底片具有 4 英寸乘以 5 英寸的大画幅，许多摄影师用它来拍摄风光、广告、建筑和人像等，其实 4×5 相机只是技术相机家庭中的一个小兄弟，还有 5×7 英寸相机和 8×10 英寸相机甚至更大型画面的照相机。…

[February 2024 Update: Castro has new owners who say they’re committed to keeping Castro up and running.] Castro has been a popular iOS podcast app for many years, but right now things look g…

Assistive access was launched alongside iOS 17. Today, I took a longer look at the new accessibility feature and what it means for our own apps.

Myke Hurley drops some balloons (on purpose, this time). When Apple shipped iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, it introduced a slew of new video features, all based on intercepting video input and running it…

在兼容 DDC/CI 协议的显示器上，不管你使用的是 Windows 还是 macOS 可以用软件甚至是快捷键来快速切换显示源。

当你观赏每一棵银杏时，都可以想象这是一个倔强而古老的金色灵魂，以不变应对沧海

A dive into the app I designed, built and never launched. Stocketa was a personal project developed to serve as a simple stock portfolio tracker for casual investors. The app was built using Swift and SwiftUl and offered a custom UI, comprehensive transaction…

Tiny text boxes, lingering on screens like ghosts, exorcised after 2 decades.