
2025-06-15 16:03:00
Google beerdigt Instant Apps Ende 2025
Instant Apps sollten ein Mittelweg zwischen Webseite und lokal installierter App sein. Doch sie waren nie beliebt. Google zieht jetzt einen Schlussstrich.
https://www.
Google beerdigt Instant Apps Ende 2025
Instant Apps sollten ein Mittelweg zwischen Webseite und lokal installierter App sein. Doch sie waren nie beliebt. Google zieht jetzt einen Schlussstrich.
https://www.
My talk on spicing up your iOS and Mac apps by embedding Godot content is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1G6H-vzxU
#Perplexity Labs macht aus Künstlicher Intelligenz eine richtige Projektassistenz: Recherche, Tabellen, Diagramme, Mini-Apps – alles aus einer Hand. Perplexity zeigt mit Labs, wohin die Reise geht: Weg vom einfachen KI-Chat – hin zur vollständigen Projektassistenz. Der Nutzer formuliert das Ziel, die KI erledigt den Rest. Und genau das macht Labs so interessant.- Jörg Schieb |
Große KI-Unternehmen wie #Anthropic und #OpenAI geraten zunehmend in Konflikt mit erfolgreichen Apps, die ihre Modelle nutzen.
Die populären Anwendungen #Windsurf und
Bear is working on web access to notes... finally!
#bearNotes
wayland is a governance failure https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/880
1935: birth
1955: fresh out of college, first job writing IBM 701 assembler
1965: independent COBOL contractor
1975: buys an Altair after attending a Homebrew meeting, gets into BASIC
1985: unboxes IBM PC, inserts Turbo Pascal diskette
1995: learns HTML and JavaScript, publishes first home page
2005: retired, first steps in Python and Ruby, starts blog
2015: publishes mobile apps written in Objective-C and Java, starts podcast
2025: at age 90, vibe cod…
All I want is a computer where the apps *keep up with me*. I’m not that fast, but don’t make me wait for context menus, app switches, text entry, etc.
There are so few that do that today. And it falls on app developers to keep their end of the bargain.
PVS Studio author Valerii Filatov dives deep into the past twenty-six years of C# history: from the humble beginnings of version 1.0 to present-day C# 13.
"History of C#: versions, .NET, Unity, Blazor, and MAUI"
https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/csharp/1248/
I wrote some iPhone apps in Objective C in the early days, it was hard, I stopped about 15 years ago. Now I’m building a native Swift app with a voice based interface using Claude to write the code, and a Claude-flow agent swarm to create plans and architecture and more complex implementation steps. It’s fun, it works on my phone, and all I have to do is say what I want in steps small enough that I can tell I got it. Follow along at
Bräuchte mal bitte ne gute Alternative zu Apps wie Evernote, OneNote, Pocket.
Zweck hauptsächlich: Links auf mehreren Geräten easy archivieren und sortieren.
Edit: Idealerweise möchte ich nichts selbst hosten, sondern mich einfach nur anmelden müssen 😭
Vorschläge? 🔃
Today I made an account on Liberapay to throw some bucks at all the #Openstreetmap editing apps I use on my phone almost daily. Given how good this makes me feel, it's money well spent!
#KIMissbrauch ‼️
KI-gestützte #Nudify-Apps erzeugen aus echten Fotos entkleidete Bilder und erreichen Millionen Nutzer.
Plattformen wie Clothoffs verzeichnen täglich Hunderttausende Uploads. Die Anbieter agieren international und schwer greifbar für Behörden.
Zielgruppen-Marke…
Last boost: I like — or at least appreciate — regulation, and that's why I initially resisted using rideshare apps or other similar services. And I'd say that all the information that's come out about those companies since they launched has only shown that regulations are, overall, a net benefit for a working society.
I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/
Maybe the real treasure were the apps that got Sherlocked along the way.
With most apps, "[feature] enable push notifications" is just a line in the changelog, not a segment on BBC News.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/patients-to-receive-reminders-and-test-results-via-the-nhs-app
In three of the four weeks since WWDC, the conversion rate for OmniFocus on visionOS has been above 71%. (In the other week it was still above 62%, so the overall conversion rate for the full period is above 70%.)
I'm not suggesting everyone run out and make visionOS apps today: the total market size is still small. But it's a good sign for customer enthusiasm on the platform.
(As a company who specialized in building NeXT apps, we're no strangers to tiny markets with…
#Microsoft verteilt seine Copiloten wie Streusand über alle Office-Apps – jeder Klick ein KI-Helfer, von Word bis Teams -fast wie Büroklammer 2.0. #Google dagegen setzt auf den großen Alleskönner-Agenten in der Cloud, der alles durchsucht, alles weiß.
Microsoft vs. Google: Kampf der KI-Konzep…
🚨 Encryption isn’t optional anymore. In EdTechSR Episode 342: Jason & I discuss why the FBI wants you on Signal, Google’s antitrust headaches, and AI tools that’ll blow your mind.
🎙️ https://edtechsr.com/2025/05/30/edtechsr-ep-342-encrypted-by-default/
I’m particularly disappointed by the possibility of Rosetta being sunsetted. I have a few ancient apps that are not under active development and will never be updated — but I’d still like to be able to run once in a while.
This would be less annoying if it were easier to virtualize old macOS versions with non-matching ISAs.
https://mastodon.social/@skry/114657134551682869
Hm...
Se calhar, se instalas uma app para espiar o ou a namorada, estšs mais ou menos a pedi-las.
Digo eu...
https://masto.pt/@sapopt/114790910072152774
Anyone run Android apps on a PC - either under qemu or directly? I need access to wifi though in the guest and maybe camera.
(I want to try Samsung's smartthings app for configuring my washer but my phone is too ancient)
Long shot but I can't find an answer with "short searches": I got a KVM. Everything finally works, except Mint shuts down (closing all apps) when I switch to the other computer and I need to open the lid to make it come back.
This is with "lid action=nothing" in the power settings, of course.
Any ideas? Even ideas on how to express this concept in a way that lets me find the relevant reddit thread would be awesome.
Check out Art of Fauna by @…! Such a nice experience with the music, haptics and images all around! Astounding polish!
https://apps.apple.com/de…
anybody have suggestions for backgammon apps where you can play against other people? I’ve been trying various apps and I don’t know if it’s the app or the other people but I can’t tolerate how slow they are to take a turn. I’ve finished their turn in my mind 10 seconds before there’s any move.
There is a reason I use Flighty when I’m traveling. It predicts delays sooner than the airline apps do. Helps keep me informed.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Fiese Schnüffelei: Meta und Yandex spionierten Nutzer ihrer Android-Apps aus
Mitsuharu Yamamoto’s Emacs Mac port provides the ‘mac-osa-script’ function, which allows you to use JavaScript to control Mac apps using JavaScript (JXA), in addition to AppleScript.
Some years ago, I made a small package to insert links from Mac apps into Emacs, inspired by grab-mac-link, but simpler, in part due to using JXA.
Today I finally took some time to add documentation. If you use the Emacs Mac port, maybe it’s of interest.
Mitsuharu Yamamoto’s Emacs Mac port provides the ‘mac-osa-script’ function, which allows you to use JavaScript to control Mac apps using JavaScript (JXA), in addition to AppleScript.
Some years ago, I made a small package to insert links from Mac apps into Emacs, inspired by grab-mac-link, but simpler, in part due to using JXA.
Today I finally took some time to add documentation. If you use the Emacs Mac port, maybe it’s of interest.
Mitsuharu Yamamoto’s Emacs Mac port provides the ‘mac-osa-script’ function, which allows you to use JavaScript to control Mac apps using JavaScript (JXA), in addition to AppleScript.
Some years ago, I made a small package to insert links from Mac apps into Emacs, inspired by grab-mac-link, but simpler, in part due to using JXA.
Today I finally took some time to add documentation. If you use the Emacs Mac port, maybe it’s of interest.
If you often translate languages that Apple Translate doesn’t support (ahem, Íslensku), you can now set Google Translate as your default translator in iOS.
Settings ➼ Apps ➼ Default Apps ➼ Translation.
Not sure if there’s other translation apps that offer this service.
I’ve just discovered that Microsoft have a .NET library to build web applications called “Blazor” (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor).
And all I can think when I read it is this:
Download Wesnoth at FlatHub!
https://flathub.org/apps/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth
Then also why not give @… a follow?
They only got 1059 followers righ…
Very iiiiiinteresting...👀 https://mastodon.social/@BenRiceM/114772697889686953
@… > all apps auto-move to Alternative Terms
Are the terms really alternative at that point? 😅
if you wonder why fedi isn’t getting mass-adoption look at the replies 🥲 https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114711218316426969
The average time at Omni for current members of our engineering team is over 19 years. If we expand that to look at the average tenure of all employees at Omni—including our most recent hires in tech support—the average is still over 15 years.
Each year, we're all pushing forward on the latest tech—shipping two visionOS apps last year, working on Liquid Glass designs in SwiftUI this year—not just maintaining ancient code. (Though we have some of that, too!)
I'm incredibly…
It's still raw and rough but one or two people asked about using some of the graphics I've been creating lately... so here they are.
Use them, no license, no credit needed. Just don't be a bad person, cool?
http://apps.2xlnetworks.net/files/
I will add a pretty index at some po…
Hey, you #JavaScript folks want to build #secure web experiences? Well, join us on this #livestream where we talk about the best current practice of Backend For Frontend to keep your apps safe from…
Alle Apps, die jetzt nicht einfach wie eine Website installierbar gewesen wären, hoste ich jetzt auf einem #RaspberryPi mit #k3s, konfiguriert mit #OpenTofu und
Having suffered an accident which temporarily means I can’t see well at all (hopefully not for more than a few days), I’m very glad that there’s an accessibility setting on my phone which hugely increases the size of the text across the whole system, notifications and most third-party apps.
I’m using the “1 Blocker” extension for iPadOS and iOS to block ads / enhance web browsing privacy:
#MediaLit
"But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for."
https://www.jon…
Is there, somewhere, I hope, a better method for moving around apps in folders and pages or screens or whatever than the hold-down-and-wiggle method??? NO NO DON’T DO THAT I DIDN’T WANT TO TAKE IT OUT OF THIS FOLDER AND THREE PAGES AWAY YOU FERSHLUGGINER THING
@… je vroeg een tijdje geleden over tracking-vrij routes maken. Ik heb nu Organic Maps onder #linux draaien als Flatpak. Werkt net zo goed als de app, en maakt ook prima routes op basis van
Mainstream social media apps spy on you. This isn't even the first such revelation. All social nedia works just fine in your web browser, which defeats a lot of those shenanigans.
If you really want a separate app, consider a second web browser. Also, Mastodon apps should be fine (but be careful with the less popular ones).
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Mastodon für #Einsteiger. Was ist #Mastodon? Wie bekomme ich einen Account? Wie sieht die Oberfläche aus?
Wer als #Twitter-, X-,
Windows 10 und 11: Edge Browser nervt künftig weniger
Microsoft hat weitere Änderungen für Windows und System-Apps wie Edge angekündigt, um sich dem Digital Markets Act (DMA) zu fügen.
https://www.
This Github repository conveniently lists and categorizes prime examples of LLM-based agent applications. Each example application features its own repository folder with its source code (Python), and a helpful README.md file describing its installation and use.
Categories include:
1. Starter AI Agents
2. Advanced AI Agents
3. Autonomous Game Playing Agents
4. Multi-Agent Teams
5. Voice AI Agents
6. RAG-Based Agents
"awesome-llm-apps"
🔥 Hot take, but managing middleware order in #aspnetcore is busted.
It would be nice if there were less granularity and more “when you add this, it's going to register in the right place every time”.
Case in point:
Mit dem Smartphone kann man direkt im Laden #Kosmetikprodukte auf bedenkliche #Inhaltsstoffe prüfen. 📱Ist deine #Gesichtscreme unbedenklich? Beinhaltet dein Peeling
heise | iPhone-Apps für die Reise: Zwei Dutzend Tipps
iOS-Apps und Dienste helfen unterwegs, sich zurechtzufinden, Buchungen zu tätigen und an wichtige Informationen vor Ort zu gelangen. 24 Mac & i-Tipps.
htt…
Please, Mastodon apps, let me choose if and when I want a card generated from a URL. I would have much preferred to use the second URL, in this case.
@… If you can wait a couple of months, the next version of macOS adds native clipboard history.
If not, there are a few apps out there that do the job, paste is one such app I’ve heard of before: https://pasteapp.io/
KI oder nicht KI, das ist hier die Frage! 🤷♂️🤷♀️
Builder.ai, ein einst hochgehandeltes KI-Start-up mit Sitz in London, sorgt für Schlagzeilen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10422912?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.ma…
Ey, WDR2. Wenn Google Maps nicht funktioniert gibt es nicht nur kommerzielle Alternativen. Gibt auch noch @… bzw darauf aufbauende Apps.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Vorwurf: Hinter KI-Chatbot steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 indische Programmierer
I don't know if it'll be part of the government plan, but one thing that would help people attempting to measure the quality of their food intake might be a statutory requirement for the sellers of packaged food to publish ingredients and nutrition information as open data (with UPCs). This could then be used by apps (such as those using openfoodfacts.org).
Mein #eOS-Erlebnis hat einen kleinen Dämpfer bekommen, weil der deutsche Community-Support zumindest bisher eher... launisch war. Ich hoffe darauf, dass der internationale vielleicht besser ist.
Wenn der deutsche Support aber recht hat, würde das heißen, dass die Google-Sachen, die ich dann doch bräuchte wie Gpay oder bestimmte Apps aus dem Playstore auf eOS gar nicht laufen und dann wäre das …
On visionOS, our conversion rates from free trials to purchases are far higher than on any other platform. (Well over 50%.)
Of course, in absolute terms the number of those trials are far lower than on any other platform—which makes sense, as there aren't nearly as many people using visionOS devices out there. But it does seem that the early adopters actively using visionOS are eager to find and support well-made native apps.
Updated my Fediverse profile page, so it references more background stories rather than just referencing the apps we currently build.
Of course, given space constraints most of those story references are very brief allusions. But they might still serve as useful launch points for conversation! If anything there piques your interest and you're curious to learn more, feel free to ask me about them.
Cultured Code: Server-Backend von Things nun auch in Swift
Die Programmiersprache Swift wird in immer mehr Apps für Apple-Plattformen verwendet. Cultured Code hat das nun auch beim Server getan.
https:/…
Updates sooo smooth?! 😏 Mit einem neuen Ansatz sollen nicht nur das #Betriebssystem selbst, sondern auch alle Anwendungen, einschließlich der von Drittanbietern, regelmäßig aktualisiert werden.
Zum Artikel:
#heiseshow: OpenAI vs. Microsoft, Instant-Apps, EU für Atomkraftausbau
In der #heiseshow: OpenAI und Microsoft droht das Zerwürfnis, Google beerdigt seine Instant Apps und die EU-Kommission rechnet fest mit mehr Atomstrom.
Apples Swift-Projekt gründet "Android Working Group"
Wer Swift zum Programmieren von Android-Apps nutzen will, ist mit Krücken konfrontiert. Das soll künftig nicht mehr so sein.
https://www.
iPadOS 26 & Co.: Endlich festlegen, welche Apps welche Dateien öffnen
Apples Dateien-App wird auf iPhone und iPad endlich mächtiger. Die Vorschau-App kommt auch aufs iPhone.
https://www.