Written by 
Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. Being too early is the same as […]
Amazon this week has a sale on Apple’s new 24-inch M1 iMac in two configurations. Sales start with the 7-core GPU with 256GB, priced at $1,249.99, down from $1,299.00. This sale is available in Blue and Silver. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we […]
When starting to adopt Swift’s new async/await feature, we’re likely going to have to find ways to connect and bridge that pattern to any existing asynchronous code that we’ve already written within a given project. Earlier this week, we took a look at how that can be done when it comes to completion handler-based APIs, […]
At WWDC21, Apple introduced a new SwiftUI API that enables us to attach refresh actions to any view, which in turn now gives us native support for the very popular pull-to-refresh mechanism. Let’s take a look at how this new API works, and how it also enables us to build completely custom refreshing logic as […]
Every year, Apple’s platforms keep progressing at a quite rapid pace, but very often, we also need our apps to support older versions of the various operating systems that they run on. So the challenge then becomes — how to adopt new system APIs and features without sacrificing our overall backward compatibility? That’s where availability […]
In the wake of Prime Day, Amazon is still discounting the M1 MacBook Air to record low prices in both 256GB and 512GB storage options. To start, you can get the 256GB model for $899.99 today on Amazon, down from an original price of $999.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you […]
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to Samir Kaji on the Venture Unlocked podcast about a wide range of topics that we as venture capitalists think about everyday, including: How to build a generational firm — retaining partner talent and finding the complimentary networks and skillsets firms need to succeed over […]
For all of its strengths and overall convenience, one downside of Swift’s built-in Codable API is that it doesn’t really offer any standard way to change or otherwise customize how a given type should be encoded or decoded. While we can always write completely custom coding implementations for the types that we’ve defined ourselves, when […]
There’s no reason to miss out on the growing number of MagSafe accessories just because you don’t have an iPhone 12. Place the inexpensive Elago MagSafe Guide Sticker on the back of your handset and magnetic chargers will cling to the device. Elago can retrofit MagSafe onto your iPhone or Android MagSafe is an improved […]
Swift 5.5’s new suite of concurrency features definitely played a major role at this year’s edition of WWDC. Particularly, the newly introduced async/await pattern could not just be seen in the more Swift-focused sessions and announcements, but all over the new APIs and features that were unveiled at the conference. While async/await is very likely […]