New Features Coming to Apple Music
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Git (via Hacker News): If you’ve used Git, you’ve probably looked at a lot of diffs. Most of the time the diff shows exactly what you did: changed some lines, added some new ones, or took some away....
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View ArticleThe Deprecation of iCloud Core Data
In March 2013, I chronicled the problems developers were having with Core Data iCloud syncing. Many concluded that the basic NSPersistentStoreUbiquitousContent design was flawed. Bugs could be fixed,...
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