Category: computers
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GitHub Getting Acquired by Microsoft
Microsoft, today: Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. Together, the two companies will empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use…
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Apple’s “Fuck You” to Mac Game Developers & Players
This wasn’t in the keynote, but Apple had some bad news buried in the “What’s New in macOS” section of their developer site for anyone who makes games or other software with the OpenGL graphics API : Deprecations and Removed APIs Periodically, Apple adds deprecation macros to APIs to indicate that those APIs should no longer be…
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The Oculus Go
Adi Robertson has a review up of the $200 Oculus Go, a VR HMD with a built-in old-ass (seriously, it’s from 2016) smartphone chipset for people without a Samsung phone: The Oculus Go improves on the Gear VR in one big way: you don’t need a high-end Samsung phone to use it, so the headset…
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Homebrew Users: Run brew cleanup & Get Your Gigs Back
If you use a macOS machine for development, or even just to get some bonus commands that you wish the system came with, then you probably use Homebrew as your command-line package manager. Perhaps you’re like me, you’ve been using it for years and didn’t realize that it has left gigabytes of detritus on your…