chrisdroukas's comments

On: Pixel Watch 3

[chrisdroukas]

Automatic (out-of-cycle) sleep tracking is coming in watchOS 11.

On: 'Meridian': Why Netflix Is Helping Competitors with Content and Code (2016)

[chrisdroukas]

[2016]

On: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026

[chrisdroukas]

There are a number of material and technology advances [1] that accelerated the pace of the Sagrada Familia's construction — the techniques used to construct the basilica have evolved significantly since construction began.

https://www.archdaily.com/964178/from-handcrafted-stone-to-3...

[hn_throwaway_99 → chrisdroukas]

I should most definitely hope so considering construction started in 1882.

On: InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely

[chrisdroukas]

The most recent version of Sketch (52) seems to resolve a lot of the general slowness around large files. It's Metal-accelerated now.

https://blog.sketchapp.com/dark-mode-data-a-brand-new-look-a...

On: This Is the Mindfulness App Apple Doesn’t Want You to Have

[chrisdroukas]

There are a few workarounds that don't involve undocumented APIs for this, as someone else in this thread mentioned.

Facebook's Groups app uses (disclaimer: as far as I can tell) an interesting technique involving saving data URIs to the home screen and then deep linking them.

On: Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook

[chrisdroukas]

You can roll your own browser interface using WKWebView — if (for whatever reason) your app supplements the browsing experience, you'd use WKWebView.

SFSafariViewController provides its own Safari-like interface and has an extremely limited set of configuration/customization options.

On: iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra: Networking for the Modern Internet

[chrisdroukas]

Without going into tremendous detail, this is roughly how:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...

On: Digit: Save money without thinking about it

[chrisdroukas]

Bank of America has a similar program called "Keep the Change".

https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/manage/keep-the-chang...

[driverdan → chrisdroukas]

Too bad it's BoA.

On: Show HN: Mechanical clock simulation in WebGL

[chrisdroukas]

Safari 9 on OS X 10.11 has this behavior.

On: A look at how Macintosh accessories are prototyped and tested

[chrisdroukas]

Apple did release peripherals today, so that's likely.