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The Saving-Everything Edition Sunday, October 6, 2024

'GroceryBot' Is An All-in-one Planner For Grocery Shopping - 9to5Mac, by Michael Burkhardt, 9to5Mac

One nice feature of GroceryBot is that you can sort your grocery items by store. When you first open the app, you’ll be able to add your favorite grocery stores that you shop at. If you prefer to buy certain items at one store because they’re cheaper for example, or if you have a particular store you go to for a specialty item, you can easily sort these apart in GroceryBot. There’s a tab for all groceries, and then tabs for each store.

Beware UserDefaults: A Tale Of Hard To Find Bugs, And Lost Data, by Christian Selig

The whole point of UserDefaults is that it’s supposed to reliably store simple, non-sensitive data so it can be accessed whenever. The fact that this has now changed drastically, and at the same time your app can be launched effectively whenever, makes for an incredibly confusing, dangerous, and hard to debug situation.

The Sinister Reason Why Instagram Keeps Erasing Your Memories, by Nitish Pahwa, Slate

But it still should serve as a warning for you and everyone else you know who’s depending on these virtual clouds for saving everything. Because they’ve shown us over and over again that they’re not going to bother saving everything forever.

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The latest iOS allows me to place app icons anywhere on the home screens' grids. The operating system also allows me to place controls anywhere on the Control Center's grids. Moving stuff around can still surprise me, and not in a good way. I am sure you have already encounter this, but I have tried moving a control in Control Center from position A to position B, and as a result, a different control sitting at position C moved automatically to position D. Mind you, positions A, B, C, and D are all different positions.

But did Apple missed out giving me the flexibility in moving app icons around in home screens' folders? Do we have to wait another year for Apple to come around to that, maybe?

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