Our thoughts on building apps & using technology

This is big (and very welcome) news:
“Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10”
https://m.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10

People who type for a living have been slowly and insidiously pushed toward cheap, uncomfortable keyboards due to cost cutting measures or bad new hardware designs. Get a proper keyboard! One great choice is the CODE keyboard with cherry green switches. https://codekeyboards.com

We've discovered that using ImageOptim to compress PNG images is very unstable and crashes on macOS Mojave, but only if you run it on a display other than the primary one. Any thoughts on this hypothesis @kornelski?

macOS High Sierra and Mojave network issues/freezes with Windows file shares? Try enabling SMB/CIFS 1.0 on the Windows machine. Disabled by default in later Windows 10 builds. macOS seems to have issues with the newer SMB protocol.

RT @newsyc20: IBM acquires Red Hat https://red.ht/2EYg1nI (http://bit.ly/2EQfSTs)

It's a rare security update for @umbraco CMS. Be sure to update your instances to the latest builds of 7.10, 7.11, or 7.12. They all include a third-party dependency with a fixed security flaw.
https://umbraco.com/blog/security-advisory-patch-for-your-site-is-now-available/

Twitter’s recent API changes are ruining great third party apps. Contrary to their statement, this is all about ad revenue. If they truly cared about users they would offer a paid ad-free user experience option and keep an egalitarian developer ecosystem. #BreakingMyTwitter

PRO TIP: Never have more than one scrollbar on a web page. It's confusing and gives users "page scroll vertigo". We're looking at you @nytimes.

This week, Adobe announced that it's bringing a complete version of Photoshop to the iPad. You may not like the Adobe subscription model, but you have to admit that this is a big deal.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-13/adobe-is-said-to-plan-photoshop-for-ipad-in-app-strategy-shift

When showing off your service's uptime, is this a valid statement?
"Uptime in the past 30 days: 100%, excluding current outage"
#slackdown