Triage Your Email in the Car with Siri

With this script, Siri will speak a summary of your unread emails and then allow you to take action on each individual message. You can listen to the full email body. Or, you can archive, delete, mark as spam, mark as read or unread, and send a reply.

Rebecca Stand and the phone reason

If you saw my tweet from earlier today then you’ll already know the punchline to this particular bug report. But for those of you who don’t follow my every dumb online comment, I present to you the strangest corner case I’ve come across in fifteen years of professional development. The app I work on during my day job was originally written in Swift in 2016, but some of the larger framework components are older Objective-C code dating back to 2012. The major development focus since I joined the project earlier this year has been on rewriting the UI layer. And …

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Gone

So, uhhhh. This isn’t good. I really hope I’m just confused and not sounding a false alarm, but… Back in April I wrote a quick post about how I was backing up the shared iCloud Photo albums that my friends and family all use to send pictures and videos of our kids back and forth. The conclusion of the post was that all of those shared pictures are not stored inside your primary Photos.app library. Instead, they were squirreled away deep inside here… ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services/com.apple.photo.icloud.sharedstreams/assets/ Fair enough. And for someone who is crazy paranoid about backing up all of their …

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