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TIL about the ContactProvider framework on iOS (not Mac). Sounds like a way to build an end-to-end encrypted replacement for iCloud/CardDAV contacts sync if you can get your head around the difference between ContactItemEnumerating and ContactItemEnumerator.
Interesting evening yesterday at Rust London learning all sorts. Dan Groshev spoke about picking a dominant colour from an image. (I used a similar approach in Jamie Oliver‘s Recipes in 2014.) Jérôme Étévé gave a talk on Mokaccino and Evadne Wu on sandboxing AI agents.
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@feli Cool! It’s my favourite conference (after UIKonf back in the day).
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\n\nThis trick from Cult of Mac to disable iOS 26 update nags seems to be working well on my iPad running iOS 18: Enable iOS 18 Developer Betas. Suddenly the OS is “up to date”. No more red badges or notifications that can’t otherwise be turned off.
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😳 rdar:45025538
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For me, Apple’s dictation (including Voice Control) really, really doesn’t want to recognise the words ergonomic, ergonomics or ergonomically. After dozens of tries, every time except once it instead wrote economic, economics, or economically.
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SwiftUI in iOS 26 adds equivalents of UIBarButtonItem.SystemItem.done and UIBarButtonItem.SystemItem.cancel to get standard Done and Cancel buttons. Here’s the code we're using to wrap this new API with fallbacks for older versions.
@pedro I think this is a pretty good workaround social.lol/users/flo…
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/douglas/79785301","date_published":"2025-12-11T09:17:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Douglas Hill","url":"https://douglashill.co/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F4525.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"douglas"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-11 09:17","date_timestamp":1765444647,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"79785163","content_html":"@florianbuerger That is amazing! Thank you.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/douglas/79785163","date_published":"2025-12-11T09:15:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Douglas Hill","url":"https://douglashill.co/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F4525.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"douglas"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-11 09:15","date_timestamp":1765444532,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"79506907","content_html":"@akshayAshah I hope so!
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We’re seeing a UIKit crash introduced in iOS 26.1: NSInternalInconsistencyException -[UIPencilInteraction _handleHoverGestureRecognizer:]: Received updates from an unknown hover gesture recognizer Full post
We’re seeing a UIKit crash introduced in iOS 26.1: NSInternalInconsistencyException -[UIPencilInteraction _handleHoverGestureRecognizer:]: Received updates from an unknown hover gesture recognizer Full post
@simme Yeah there is a chance I might stop by on my way back! Probably going to be right at the end of July. I’ll let you know.
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\nAs an Apple user, I’m trying to switch to services that don’t lock me in, but this is a huge undertaking, and so far the alternatives just aren’t as good. Looking at getting a Fairphone while still using iPad and Mac.
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