A bit of a Hot Take I guess but…I think Lightning was a better connector than USB-C. It is at the very least more durable. I wish Apple had tried to make it an open standard, but then I guess we’d have multiple competing open standards, again.
Joel Auterson
Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.
I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.
I'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in carbon emission reduction at a company called Emitwise.
Everything tagged with 'Apple'
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COVID-19 app incompatibility points at a larger issue in tech
After six months and £11m of public money wasted, England and Wales finally have a functional contact tracing app for COVID-19. You can download it now - as long as your phone is new enough. Why this limitation?
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Notarizing Java applications on macOS
Notarization is required as of macOS 10.15 (Catalina), and it’s a bit of a minefield - doubly so for a Java application, or anything built outside Xcode.
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Speed Up Catalina With This One Weird Tip!
The newest version of macOS (well, that’s out) has caused a lot of issues for a lot of people, game developers especially. I’ll write about my notarization woes in a separate post, but this should help address quite a specific issue.