Now you got me curious: can you get Dashcode to run on modern macOS or does it only work on Snow Leopard? Never got to experience it back in the day and would love to try it out.

You can't run the binary at all on modern macOS, I think it relies on some framework or API that simply no longer exists. macOS explicitly tells you it's incompatible and it doesn't work even if you force it to run. So I used a Mountain Lion VM.

Seems that there are some code signing issues with the Apple silicon version. Intel one works fine though.

I agree with the need for a standardized development setup (be it local or in the cloud) but violently disagree with eliminating development setup diversity.

Curious engineers with oddball configurations greatly contribute to the overall health of a codebase. Forcing these folks to use a standardized configuration is a missed opportunity at best, and disgruntling at worst.

You can already do that right now (even Vulkan should work fine through MoltenVk), although accessibility will be poor when compared with Apple's offering unless significant effort is invested.

  0_0  # Python >= 3.6 is required

(https://github.com/jwilk/abmagick/blob/8959fe7c390283d095e42...)

Highly cursed, yet wildly creative way of asserting the language version.

Support for underscores in numeric literals landed in 3.6 (PEP-515), < 3.6 chokes on the underscore and raises a syntax error instead.

See also related:

"What the fuck Python?"

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

Along with the corresponding HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31566031 (450 points, 153 comments)

See https://github.com/jwilk/python-syntax-errors if you need curses for other Python versions.

Can't help but feel that this approach might not be that cursed after all, seeing how you actually went through the effort of automatically testing all of these.

Nothing beats this guy though: 0_0

The first time I read this, I thought you were making a wide-eyed emoticon about the fact that it requires Python 3.6

UIFeedbackGenerator (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uifeedbackge...) has been around for a while, but it’s not exactly capable of "positional" feedback. Still, vibrating in response to actions such as rearranging list entries or drag interactions that require a certain distance threshold to be passed can feel quite satisfying.

Looks a bit like their cancelled take on Kanye West's stem player (https://imgur.com/a/ECehY1T), especially those faders on the front.

Definitely the design language but doesn't seem to carry over any of the functionality, just seems like a standard mixer.

Neat, but I seriously hope that it doesn’t become popular enough to force Spotify to combat client reimplementations such as librespot, which this is based on.

Also Mopidy, which lets you use Spotify from any MPD client.

I suspect that secretly there are some people at Spotify who are sympathetic to open source and/or use Linux, and have convinced the business people and bean counters that not being openly hostile to free software is good business.

I have mixed feeling about Spotify in general, but it's still not as "closed" of a platform as it could be, and I'm at least a little bit happy about that.

The release notes don't include release dates, but if the Twitter account registration date is to be trusted, Typora has been around since late 2014.

A one time 15$ purchase is a steal for all the value I got out of the beta versions over the years.

Even Sublime Text 3's monumentally long beta period appears brief when compared with Typora's.

> Tailwind UI’s Figma file has the highest level of quality I’ve ever seen in an external Figma file

This cannot be overstated. The included Figma file alone is arguably worth Tailwind UI's asking price.

I can't be the only one who hears "Figma" for the first time ever. From a quick google it appears to be an Illustrator like vector format?

This is the best design app since 2016. Has Google Docs-alike multiplayer editing but in a design doc. Love Figma.

There’ll always be people hearing about a thing for the first time.

Figma is quickly replacing Sketch (which replaced Photoshop and Fireworks) as the preferred tool for web and app design, and they’re just raised a round at a valuation of $10B. So it’s a pretty major player now!