Tag: apple
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Remapping § to ~ + brightness keys from macOS Sonoma 14.3.1
A year ago, I wrote about bringing the UK keyboard layout closer to the US one on my M2 Air here, however, that suddenly stopped working. While attempting to run the command involved by hand, I realised that it had to be executed as root. Apple updated macOS such that those special keys couldn’t be…
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Mac M1/M2: Keyboard Brightness Keys + Remap § to ~
Remap the section key to the tilde key, and bring back the keyboard brightness keys to the MacBook M1/M2 machines.
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A letter to Tim Cook regarding iOS 10, with love for Apple
| life!Tim, iOS has always been known for it’s user interface, until recently. Your new take on notifications have not only made them very loud, and unsettling, but do not flow with the entire look and feel of Apple: No Mr. Tim, no. My notifications aren’t waiting for me. They’re crying out for my attention. See…
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Mocking the HTTP/2 Apple push notification gateway in Go
At CleverTap, we had the need to mock the new HTTP/2 Apple push gateway API. After trying to do this in Java, and then in Python, I succeeded in getting it to work in Go. Go out of all languages! To me, Go has a completely strange syntax, compared to Java and C. This mock server…
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Sending notifications via Apple’s new HTTP/2 API (using Jetty 9.3.6)
HTTP/2 is still very much new to Java, and as such, there are just two libraries who support it – Jetty (from 9.3), and Netty (in alpha). If you’re going the Jetty way (as I have), you’ll need to add their ALPN library to your boot classpath. Note: Jetty 9.3.x requires the use of Java…