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Chandler Jones makes big donation to help food banks during Coronavirus crisis – Revenge of the Birds

Chandler Jones is a treat. Everything I see from him is positive and enlightening. Wish I was as learned at his age.

iOS Vulnerability Prevents VPNs From Encrypting All Traffic – MacRumors

iOS Vulnerability Prevents VPNs From Encrypting All Traffic – MacRumors: Until fixed, VPN users can connect to a VPN server, turn

Sonos Backtracks on Recycle Mode That Bricked Devices

I love my Sonos devices — very happy to see them make the right decision here: Sonos Backtracks on Recycle Mode That

Spacey McSpaceface: Space Force tries crowdsourcing term for members | Ars Technica

“Guardian,” “vanguard,” “sentinel” already “floating around,” according to Space Force email. Spacey McSpaceface: Space Force tries crowdsourcing term for members | Ars

Oscar-winning screenwriter Taika Waititi dunks on Apple’s keyboards | Engadget

Winning an Academy Award makes you feel like you’re ruler of the world, at least for the rest of Oscar night. Taika

Ring doorbell ‘gives Facebook and Google user data’

This is infuriating: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation found the Ring app was “packed” with third-party tracking, sending out customers’ personally identifiable information.

Storyboard layout madness

Been working on layouts the last two weeks, making sure baseball renders properly on the 5 different iPad sizes. It’s a challenge

JetBrains Mono Font -A Typeface for Developers

Checkout the new free font from JetBrains created just for developers. Im using it in Xcode. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Ad block – AlbeBlocksAnnoyances

[UPDATED TO SUPPORT iOS] I quit using Facebook well over a year ago, yet anytime my browser takes me there it shows

How to Create a Safari Content Blocker Extension in Swift – iOS-Blog

Created my first safari content blocker today — incredibly easy and powerful. This is a great intro to follow if you’re

Fold code for functions you don’t mutate

Something I’ve found very helpful for my busy mind is to fold the code within functions I’ll rarely mutate. Folding/Unfolding code is

WTF Auto Layout?

Deciphering auto layout errors can be a real pain. johnpatrickmorgan created a nifty website to help: WTF Auto Layout?

SwiftUI – NSAttributedString

While it’s true SwiftUI doesn’t currently provide easy access to NSAttributedString, you can concatenate string literals assigning attributes to each literal individually:

Static frameworks for pods

Excellent tool from leavez for enabling static frameworks for all your pods. Kudos to @mfcollins3 for the link: https://github.com/leavez/cocoapods-static-swift-framework

ABControls updated for swift 5.

https://github.com/albebaubles/ABControls

ABControls

I wanted to learn more about @IBDesignable and @IBInspectable, so I thought why not throw together a quick Custom UI Control project

Xcode & Terminal

While I’d really like Xcode to provide an internal window for terminal, this is a nice piece of work from Damjan Dimovski