Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading(incident.io)

15 points by sharjeelsayed 2 years ago | 9 comments

Measuring Developers' Jobs-to-be-done(substack.com)

54 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 6 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook(tokyodev.com)

418 points by pwim 2 years ago | 299 comments

A TokyoDev blog post by Paul McMahon describing how an email to Tim Cook got Apple to remove the Activation Lock on his returned lost MacBook.

Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases(read.engineerscodex.com)

441 points by gempir 2 years ago | 170 comments

Engineer's Codex newsletter post explaining how Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB to power CloudKit and store billions of iCloud databases.

Accidental database programming(sqlsync.dev)

523 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 265 comments

Blog post by Carl Sverre arguing that frontend apps end up reimplementing database features like caches and indexes, and proposing a frontend-optimized database stack.

Apple is open sourcing Swift Build(swift.org)

582 points by dayanruben 1 year ago | 254 comments

Swift.org blog post announcing that Apple is open sourcing Swift Build, the build engine used by Xcode, as a step toward unified cross-platform Swift build tools.

An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers(lwn.net)

568 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 years ago | 234 comments

LWN article covering Alyssa Rosenzweig's XDC 2024 talk on the status of the Rust-based Linux GPU driver for Apple M1/M2, including conformance and gaming support.

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL(developer.apple.com)

271 points by Audiophilip 8 days ago | 303 comments

Apple Developer Forums thread reporting that macOS 15.8.2 RC breaks NSOpenGLView/NSOpenGLContext setView, leaving OpenGL windows with no drawable and rendering blank.

Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode(scottwillsey.com)

516 points by speckx 3 months ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Scott Willsey explaining how to build and ship Mac and iOS apps, including via vibe coding, without ever opening Xcode.

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.