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I bet they won't. I think there is a (or maybe a few) soecial and proprietary Panic libraries that they include across their applications. Open sourcing Transmit iOS would also mean open sourcing part of their other conmercial applications.

Agreed on that! The iOS RDP app is pretty darn good, and VPN connectivity options are really good too. BUT... I discovered that if I RDP into my work machine/network, it totally negates the need for both Coda and Transmit on my local iPad.

Thats the trick... :(

Transmit/Mac when it's discounted is definitely worth it IMO. $45 is a little steep, but Transmit performs really well, especially when you have a lot of little files to move.

Both. I had a first gen iPad Pro for about a year before I gave it to my parents to use for their travels.

The keyboard cover was super handy (I highly recommend it), and I admit that there are some cases where I could have gotten away with just an iPad. But for anything important, I'd need to open a VPN and RDP session anyway. A Surface may have been a better purchase, TBH.

I hate to admit it, but I have both Transmit and Coda for iOS and I never use them. I've never really used them. I know a lot of care went into making these applications, so I don't want to say it was a waste of money, but I just can't make iOS any more of a productive platform... even with great software.

Honestly, this story/link should be considered maybe a both a blow to the "post-pc" narrative (we're going on 8 years of "post-pc") AND to Apple itself.

MS didn't go about Win8 very gracefully, but honestly, I think A LOT of the thinking behind Win8 was right-on and future-minded. These concepts just needed a gentler, multi-staged introduction. I think Win10 is turning things around.

Also: I wonder if this reality has anything to do with that "cross-platform" UIKit/AppKit replacement PR drop we got a few weeks ago?

I use an ad-blocker and have since 2011. To get around broken/hidden content, I just copy/paste the link into Terminal after $lynx. Works almost every time.

More will be coming, and I won't stop until Classic Finder reaches parity with the original. Thanks for giving it a try! :)

Yes, I love the feedback!

This is a great list! I _completely_ forgot about the saved positioning of the windows.

I'm definitely going to keep working on this and fleshing it out. I'll be using your feedback as a guide! Thanks! :)

Thanks! :)

I think that it would probably build mostly fine on GNUStep or Cocoatron. It's not dependent on any of the macOS UI controls - since all of them are drawn from scratch. And the APIs this is calling into... they've been around forever.

The file system operations themselves, well, they are mostly just NSTask's that hand off to the command-line programs in /bin with a few arg's attached to them. (I know, I could do some of these with NSFileManager and it'd be better, but I wanted to be consistent.)

The only hangups I can think of (for building cross platform) would be maybe some of the syntactic sugar and ARC.

Thanks! And yes, getting window resizing is on my list!

I have a new appreciation for how tricky it is to get even some of the most basic controls and their functions right. Basic scrolling and scrollbars felt like a hurculean achievement.

Ahh yes. There's nothing really groundbreaking in there (in terms of API usage), so I should probably be able to set the build to an earlier version. ... let me see! :)

I have been working on creating a replica of the classic MacOS Finder in Cocoa/Objective-C. After about two years of hacking and doodling, I have finally gotten it to a point where I think it's worth showing.

Hope you all like it!

I second that. Edge is fast and efficient, in my experience. But when I use it, it crashes just a little too often. I've never been a Chrome or Google kind of a guy, so I was actually using Edge instead until FF57 was released. I think they could also improve Edge by making the browser frame and controls a little less plain and blocky in terms of design.

I tried to make account named "Chip Ahouy" for this same purpose, but the sign up form told me it wasnt a real name. It was brutal.

Honestly, if Patreon would just invoice me like everyone else does and let me do an ACH/electronic check payment to get current, they could skip the CC payment fees all together. ACH isnt free, but my understanding is that it's a lot cheaper than processing credit cards.

What this post is lamenting is the loss of some actor like MECC. We had great software written for students (not adults) at one point. Many of us here have used it and fondly remember it. Titles like Oregon Trail, Reader Rabbit, etc...

Unfortunately, MECC got spun-off from the actual Minnesota education system, then purchased by a giant ed-tech company and left to wither. The endowment that MECC (in its purist form) left behind faded in time.

There is still a lot of great educational software out there. It's just all locked away on a MacOS 9 box, tied to libraries and runtimes that never made the jump to Mac OS X and then iOS.

From the business side of it, we'd honestly need something of a PBS-like software company to reconstruct what we lost with MECC. I think that's the only way it'd work. The software would have to be made, not because it was profitable, but because it needed to be made and was a good thing for our society to have.

Oh, they definitely do keep tabs and actively participate in places like HN.

You must have missed seeing this a few years ago...

> Members of Apple PR seek tabloid photos of celebrities holding iPhones, while others read Apple-focused blogs actively, and keep tabs on prominent Apple beat writers using anonymized social media accounts. A former Apple PR employee notes that the team enjoys being an “overall watchdog,” monitoring what the media is saying about the company every day.

https://9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/part-3-strategies-the-art-of-...

It's complicated and treacherous.

http://www.pruitt-igoe.com

I've taken that same guess after the new fancy effects and animations for iMessage got fully implemented in iOS 10 and barely supported at all in macOS Messages. It seemed like an afterthought on the Mac.

Interestingly, Messages.app on macOS actually is a webview (well, the chat log portion of the window).

Remember the time they kept the app open in the background on iOS devices by sending an empty audio buffer to the phone for playback?

People started discovering that after iOS introduced the battery/power usage section in the Settings app.

I mean, they did break iOS platform rules and pulled some tricks to keep the app open in the background all of the time by sending an empty audio beffer to the phone for "playback."

So yes, really.

I can add to that anecdote... I was discussing which podcast app was best for Android with a friend, and in the presence of her Android phone. The next day, she started getting served ads for podcast apps all over the place.

Keep in mind, this was someone who would have been completely new to podcasting and have never searched for podcasts or podcast apps before.

Made both of us highly suspicious.

They missed the higher education bubble to include in the list.

So... am I mistaken, or didn't the W3C try to replace the web as we know it today, with XHTML? Didn’t that fail?

I don't doubt that the author knows their web history, but reading this, it's like they've got their blinders on.

Oh god, not Jean Twenge.

People, please, please read the Strauss and Howe book (Generations), not Jean Twenge. She makes overly-cranky observations about generations (especially younger ones, like Millennials and Homelanders) without the context of the rest of generational theory. The things I have read from her before seem to show a very basic understanding of the topic of generations compared to others who came before her.

I mean, Strauss and Howe wrote about (predicted, you might say) that the youth would clean itself up as this current cycle progressed by way of exacting Boomer expectations (in hypocritical contrast of the Boomer's own behavior during the late 60's and 70's). To anyone who has read the book, this is news article is probably coming as no surprise.

Just want to point out that Detroit built itself this way through the 1950's and 1960's. At the time, urban planners thought it would be efficient and sensible design.

What ended up happening, though, is that as factories shuttered, the neighborhoods that were built around them started to collapse. The net result was pockets of localized decay, that eventually led to the entire urban area rotting as more people left. It's actually kind of stunning to see in person. (I live about 50 min South of Detroit). And oh, the riots of 1967 didn't help, either.

It's hard to imagine that happening the the metro-Bay area, but I remind myself that people once thought GM, Chrysler and Ford could never go under.

"What was powering and pushing up prices in 2007 and ’08 were loans to borrowers with No Income, No Jobs, and No Assets. ... Now we only have one kind of NINJA left, and those are students. Student loans have been the most rapidly growing loans in the country. ... The whole student loan scandal is a corrupt. It shows the degree to which the universities and the government loan system have been taken over by banks writing the loans to give themselves a free ride at public expense."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/25/another-housing-bubb...

Just read the above the other day, and I know it's slightly off-topic, but it meshes nicely with some of the points you made.

I figured out around the last year or so of my university career that I should have actually spent less time in class than I did, but I did eventually figure it out. And I agree wholeheartedly with no one explicitly telling students about all of this. I can't tell you how livid I was once it all clicked. I try to expose the idea to as many high schoolers as I possibly can, but they aren't yet affected so it doesn't exactly make a whole lot of sense to them.

Anyhow, this comparison of student loan / universities working as a new profit center, similar to the junk mortgages of the '08 crash is new to me though. I think it illustrates what's going on very clearly, even if Micheal Hudson is a bit extreme with his view of the schism between public/private.

Jane Jacobs also wrote critically of what Universities had become (credentialing), and how it might (negatively) affect our culture sometime down the line in her book, Dark Age Ahead.