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Safari 12 is out for macOS. Favourite new features: favicons in tabs (opt-in in Preferences), and sane performance of closing tabs in the Tab Overview view.
Also, great anti-tracking stuff, as announced during WWDC. All good stuff.
The Sublime Text folks made a git client.
Today, I’d like to introduce Sublime Merge. It combines the UI engine of Sublime Text, with a from-scratch implementation of Git. The result is, to us at least, something pretty special.
Oh wow. Oh wow.
We have a custom implementation of Git for reading repositories, which drives a lot of our high performance functionality. However we defer to Git itself for operations that mutate the repository (Staging, Committing, Checking out branches, etc).
Sign me up!
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Interesting details about the new Apple Watch’s ECG feature from an ER Physician: https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9fkb3t/im_an_emergency_physician_and_wanted_to_talk/
Apple has differentiated its new iPhones in a super frustrating way, probably in an effort to drive up average selling prices.
- iPhone XR: phenomenal performance to price ratio. Offers 128 GB storage. Awesome colour choices. Aluminum instead of steel. Inferior but still great screen. No 3D Touch. Only one camera.
- iPhone XS and XS Max: awesome screen. Two cameras. Doesn’t offer 128 GB – only 64, 256, and 512.
I am currently using 78 GB of storage on my iPhone 7+. Way too low to justify 256 GB for an additional $210, but way too high to try to fit it all in a 64 GB phone. And I really want the optical zoom capability of the dual camera setup – something I use all the time on my current phone.
So either I can pay $1099 and settle for a single camera, or pay a whopping $1589 to get all the things I actually want, plus a bunch of things I don’t care about.
I’m willing to bet a lot of other people are in the same camp.
Furthermore, Apple is selling these new devices at CAD$1.40 to the US Dollar, instead of the actual current exchange rate, CAD$1.30. They usually treat us Canadians pretty fairly, but this is awful.
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FUCK THIS. A judge ruled this mid-election change unconstitutional. I am hopping mad over here.
Premier Doug Ford to use notwithstanding clause to cut size of Toronto city council
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/judge-ruling-city-council-bill-election-1.4816664