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Apple / macOS / iOS

How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub? (or building a more respectful App Store) (tim.siosm.fr)
Amper Update, November 2025 – Extensibility Preview (blog.jetbrains.com)
A Reverse Engineer’s Anatomy of the macOS Boot Chain & Security Architecture (stack.int.mov)
strace-macos: A clone of the strace command for macOS (github.com)
Lifting Kotlin testing: Comparing JUnit, Kotlin-test, Kotest, Prepared and TestBalloon (ivan.canet.dev)
librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem (github.com)
MacOS Infection Vector: Using AppleScripts to bypass Gatekeeper (pberba.github.io)
Mechanical translation from COBOL to Kotlin using formal methods (marcoeg.medium.com)
Homebrew v5.0.0: The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux) (brew.sh)
Value classes are the new data classes (curiouslab.dev)
Swift on FreeBSD Preview (forums.swift.org)
apps.apple.com: App Store web version (github.com)
Microsoft SoftCard for Apple II: two processors, same memory (devblogs.microsoft.com)
"Monster Splash" a double-hires demo for Apple IIe (deater.net)
Attacking macOS XPC helpers: Protocol reverse engineering and interface analysis (tonygo.tech)
Finding Order in the Mayhem: A Novel Concurrency Testing Tool that Improved the Kotlin Compiler (blog.jetbrains.com)
My impressions of the MacBook Pro M4 (michael.stapelberg.ch)
Roadmap for improving the Swift type checker (forums.swift.org)
The Apple Compact Unwinding Format: Documented and Explained (2021) (faultlore.com)
Using Homebrew to Distribute Early Access Binaries from Private Github Repositories (lgug2z.com)
Announcing the Swift SDK for Android (swift.org)
What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? (blog.johnozbay.com)
From Python to Kotlin: A Transition Worth Making (blog.jetbrains.com)
Streaming live video as a macOS screensaver using AVFoundation and yt-dlp (github.com)
How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer (drobinin.com)
Context parameters and API design (serranofp.com)
Colored Highlighter - A terminal tool to highlight specific words in your command output with colors (github.com)
Paneru - A sliding, tiling window manager for MacOS (github.com)
Porting from Perl to Go: Simplifying for Platform Engineering (phoenixtrap.com)
Reverse Engineering iWork (andrews.substack.com)