In the latest Power On newsletter, Gurman explains how Tap to Pay on iPhone will expand its support to metal cards, which have been troublesome up until this point.
Since the introduction of Tap to Pay on iPhone, Apple retail employees have been using iPhone 14 to process tran
In March, Apple informed the EU that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr, according to a notice published today on the European Commission's website.
SigScalr created the open-source observability platform SigLens, which companies can use to aggregate and analyze logs, me
Apple is developing a new API that will let third-party accessories, including Meta's Ray-Ban Meta glasses and Quest headsets, automatically pair across a user's Apple devices the same way AirPods and the Apple Watch do today, according to Apple's
Apple shares have rallied 15 percent since their worst day on the stock market in more than a year, adding almost $600 billion in value since June 25 and returning the stock to record territory.
The rebound comes as investors grow uneasy about the mind-boggling sums of cash continually bein
I am the developer behind inknode-- a new IOS Notetaking app with numerous capabilities! I built around the idea to give the most capability as a free tier user for students and those in need.
For free, you can get:
Unlimited note creation
Unlimited PDF exports and edits
All Templates & iCloud sync
Searchable handwriting and PDF text
Handwriting Beautification
Built-in productivity tools (reminders, calendar, and more)
In terms of premium features there are:
AI Summaries, Quizzes, Flashcards generation per note
I’m the solo developer behind Chessmate, an iPhone app I built because I kept forgetting the chess openings I studied.
I could watch an opening video and understand the moves, but I often went blank when the same position appeared in a game. Chessmate turns each opening into a series of positions where you have to find the next move. Important moves have short explanations, and positions you struggle with come back for review.
The part I’m still working on is the balance between explanation and practice. Too much text interrupts the session, but short explanations can leave out useful context.
One more RSS reader — why not? Honestly, I built it for the reason I keep seeing other people give: there wasn't a reader that fit me properly, so I made one that adapts to the reader instead of the other way round.
Two things shaped it. The first is that it's iCloud-native: your feeds, folders and read state sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac with no account to create and no server of mine in the middle. Nothing about what you read leaves your devices — no ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics. The second is that almost everything is adjustable: themes including Sepia, a customisable article list (thumbnail size, favicon, unread dot, 0–6 preview lines), and a reading view where you pick the font and the text size.
Apple’s new Mac chip road map represents the company’s latest move to rebuild its operations for the artificial intelligence world. Also: The company is readying new Apple Pencil styluses and preparing to make the iPhone’s tap-to-pay feature more prevalent in its retail stores.
Apple retail stores are putting up Back to School promotional materials during the middle of this coming week. Stores will be re-organized, including a dedicated education table that has Macs, iPads and iPad Pros.
Hey r/apple , I built Devly, a menu bar app with 60+ developer tools. A few weeks ago Apple invited me to WWDC, (best day ever btw) I got to sit down with some of their engineers, and I just shipped v2.1 with changes directly from those conversations.
It lives in your menu bar and has everything you reach for constantly: JSON formatter, Base64, regex tester, JWT decoder, color converter, Unix timestamp, UUID generator, QR code, cron parser, and a lot more. Everything runs locally, no tracking, no subscription.
Some new things in v2.1:
Liquid Glass UI on macOS 26
Quick Switch (⌘P) to jump to any tool instantly
URL scheme for terminal piping (devly://base64?input=hello)
I spent the last few months building a big v3 update for Birthday Buddy. This update represents everything I learned when I decided about a year ago that I wanted to learn more about software development.
My iOS and SwiftUI journey started with "Hacking with Swift" by Paul Hudson, followed by late nights and weekend debugging. Through a lot of trial and error, plus some help from my trusty AI assistant Claude, my app came into existence. Now with version 3 I basically reimagined the entire app and I'm quite proud of it.
Birthday Buddy is designed to be your complete birthday assistant.
What it does:
Smart Reminders: Get notified up to 14 days in advance so you
I am the developer of Stamps. A private, fully-local, automatic travel tracker with no signup, no subscription, and no location tracking
Motivation: I've been an avid user of apps like Been and Flighty for years, but always found them lacking and sometimes frustrating. Most require you to create accounts, enable location tracking, and stay online, all while not delivering the level of granular trip tracking and route visualization that I feel like should've been possible. Stamps keeps everything local and automatic, focusing on the timeline and map experience those apps skimp on.
My girlfriend and I are both avid readers. She’s the serious book nerd, and I’m a software engineer. We tried a lot of book trackers but never found one that felt quite right for both of us, so we built Folio together.
It’s a private book tracker and reading journal for iPhone and iPad. Some of its main features are:
Organize your library and TBR
Quickly add books by searching or scanning their ISBN barcodes
Log reading sessions, including pages read and time spent
Track physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks
Set reading goals and explore detailed reading stats
Review your reading calendar and export it as a shareable image
For those unaware, the last point release for Debian 12 was announced today. However, this is also the final point release of an 32-bit build for Debian, meaning that there will be no more regular updates to the 32-bit line of Debian ever again. If you still have 32-bit hardware, you will have to formally change your distro or upgrade your hardware.
Hey everyone! I’m the developer of Whisp, a lightweight, gesture-driven, Anti Folder note-taking app.
A lot of people loved the simplicity of the app, but wanted faster ways to format text without taking their hands off the keyboard. Today, I'm releasing Whisp 1.3.7, which brings a massive expansion to the built-in Macro Engine!
By simply typing ::, you can now instantly trigger powerful text manipulation commands right inside your note:
What's New in 1.3.7:
List Management: Automatically sort your lists alphabetically or numerically (::sort_lines_alpha), or instantly collapse white-space by wiping empty lines (::remove_lines_empty).
Task Organization: Have a messy to-do list? Type ::checked_to_bottom to instantly push a
Is it obvious, that I like to try out the more independent and not your ordinary Linux distributions? 😂
So spinning up a VM every now and then and install Linux distributions that do their own thing! At the moment I have installed 4 distributions that not everyone may know or use. Or do you?
Kwort Linux: based on CRUX Linux and is a very minimal distribution that doesn't hold your hand but kinda brings a breath of fresh air to you!
Slackware Linux: The granddaddy of Linux! Nothing more to say!
Lunar Linux: An independent source based distribution forked from Sorcerer with a unique package management system. Kinda easy to install but a PIA to set up after the initial installation.
A tiny , ipc controlled hardware accelerated Wayland wallpaper daemon written in C++ based only on ffmpeg for video and image wallpapers on wayland. That is lighter and faster than the alternatives. Yin does not depend on any external video players, it talks directly to you video card to draw wallpaper. It has native support for Intel and AMD via VAAPI and Nvidia via Cuda. Check it out.
v26.07 focuses on performance, UI refinements, better Wayland support (now default), GNOME dark mode fixes, and a bunch of smaller improvements and new options.
This interview was originally recorded by GIMP developers, but it covers several open source art programs such as Inkscape, Scribus, MyPaint, and Blender - and how they're used in professional workflows.
Some references are a bit dated given when it was originally recorded (it's been sitting on a hard drive for a while), but I think it's a very interesting discussion.
I would like to install SteamOS on the PlayStation 4. I don't want to just install Linux Arch and then Proton etc. on top. I want to build a machine that looks like as close as possible to the Steam Machine, software-wise. Does anyone have a working old PS4 to donate me ? If you want to donate me one, and I'll show you back the fully functional system and I will share the source code. Yeah,I'm short of money,that's the reason why I don't buy the PS4 with my money. But,I've accumulated a good knowledge using Claude.
I've asked Claude several times to do something completely new and we have been able to accomplish some interesting and fresh project :
-> qemu + bhyve + nvidia GPU passthru on FreeBSD : it didn't exist befor
Bought a cheap standalone USB fingerprint dongle (Focal-systems FT9201, 2808:93a9) that's marketed as Windows Hello only. libfprint's built-in matcher does a poor job on the tiny 96×96 sensor, and the device is "match-on-host" - the actual matching lives in a vendor Windows DLL, not on the chip.
So instead of reimplementing the matcher, the driver loads the vendor's Windows matching engine (ftWbioEngineAdapter.dll) in-process on Linux and calls its WinBio interface for enroll/verify. It's a small PE loader with ~90 kernel32 shims and a fake TEB. Getting there also meant reverse-engineering the sensor's firmware-boot sequence (the MCU wouldn't run its firmware without a specific register-co
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