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Codecov’s unreliability breaking CI on my open source projects has been a constant source of frustration for me for years. I have found a way to enforce coverage over a whole GitHub Actions build matrix that doesn’t rely on third-party services.

European Union and Chinese citizens will have to wait even longer before getting their hands on Apple's hotly-anticipated iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 with the new Siri.

The transformative power of LLMs in coding has been irrefutable, and it feels like we are living through a magical computing renaissance. On...

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Back in September, I blogged about a bug that I discovered: URL/NSURL double-encodes characters unnecessarily. Despite my well-known hatred of Feedback Assistant, I reluctantly used it in this case. I’ve filed a bug report in Apple Feedback Assistant: “URL/NSURL double-encodes characters unnecessarily” (FB20439045). It turns out that miracles do happen. See today’s macOS Golden Gate 27 Beta Release Notes and iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes. Fixed: +[NSURL URLWithString:] no longer double-encodes the % of valid percent-escape sequences when encoding other invalid characters. (161588649) (FB20439045) That’s my Feedback number, and my bug! Apple deemed it important enough to fix and to highlight. My internet fame grows. ;-) We’ll see if Apple updates my bug report. As of now, it still says, “Recent Similar Reports: None” and “Resolution: Open.” Anyway, I thank the anonymous Apple employees who made this happy day possible.