At 4DV.ai, we are working on 4D video creation, playing and editing tools based on Gaussian Splatting. We envision 4D video to be the future of visual media and ultimate medium for immersive storytelling.

The fully open source Docker Desktop alternative built natively for Apple Silicon with blazing-fast performance. Run containers, Kubernetes, Firecracker VMs, and sandboxed AI agents at lightning speed.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines archive (1980-2014) - 35 documents optimized for LLM consumption and human exploration. Spanning Lisa, Mac, NeXT, Newton, Aqua, and iOS eras. - human-interface-markdown/1980-lisa-ui-standards/full_document.md at master · johnzfitch/human-interface-markdown

Apple Human Interface Guidelines archive (1980-2014) - 35 documents optimized for LLM consumption and human exploration. Spanning Lisa, Mac, NeXT, Newton, Aqua, and iOS eras. - human-interface-markdown/1980-lisa-ui-standards/full_document.md at master · johnzfitch/human-interface-markdown

While sometimes it can be hard to see from single release to single release, Apple has steadily been refining the Aqua user interface since first introducing it.Mac OS X started life on CRTs and small notebook screens. Today, macOS spans from 13-inch MacBooks to the 32-inch Pro Display XDR. It has undergone system font changes and the Retina transition. It has had to adapt, hosting the addition of dozens and dozens of features over the years.

This talk tells the story of how I tried to solve a problem - and in doing so, understood how push notifications actually work. Why my first approach didn’t scale. Why almost every app uses Firebase or APNs. Why even Signal knocks at Google’s door. And why, since the Wyden letter of 2023, this is a documented privacy problem: “We kill people based on metadata.”

Bugs Apple won’t fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.

A secure local sandbox to run LLM-generated code using Apple containers - instavm/coderunner

If Developer Mode doesn’t appear on your Apple Watch, try physically connecting your iPhone to your Mac and opening Xcode. And if your Mac and Xcode can’t find your Watch, a full reset and reinstall of Xcode may be necessary.

AirPods liberated from Apple’s ecosystem. Contribute to kavishdevar/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub. LibrePods unlocks Apple’s exclusive AirPods features on non-Apple devices. Get access to noise control modes, adaptive transparency, ear detection, hearing aid, customized transparency mode, battery status, and more - all the premium features you paid for but Apple locked to their ecosystem.

You can not sacrifice privacy to get security, that’s like tearing down the house to build a fence. Privacy is how security looks like from within those walls, security is how privacy looks like from outside those walls, they are two sides of that same wall.

The Apple Podcast Transcript Viewer is a niche web tool designed by Alex Beals that allows users to view transcripts of Apple Podcasts directly in their browser, although it is explicitly noted to only support macOS.

I really love this article. There’s a lot of nuance, and difficult concessions to pragmatism, that we make in our lives.

It can be hard, but sometimes we really do need to bite bullet for the good of all.

Update: Added macOS Trash integration. While GNU/Linux had been my operating system of choice for many years, these days I’m primarily on macOS. Luck…